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“Faith is believing in advance what can only be understood in reverse.” Chuck Swindoll

A half-truth is a dangerous thing, especially if you have got hold of the wrong half.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

“Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit.” Rossetti

“Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.” Charles Dickens

“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.” Thomas à Kempis

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

“He who waits on God never waits too long.”

Chuck Wagner

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. Faith is the belief that God will do what is right.” Max Lucado

“The tasks connected with the home are the fundamental tasks of humanity.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Christ has turned all our sunsets into dawns. ~Clement of Alexandria

How shall I depend on Him for raising my body from the dust; and saving my soul at last; if I distrust Him for a crust of bread, towards my preservation.

Joseph Hall

Opportunities are like sunrises –  if you wait too long, you miss them.

Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether.

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

“Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.”

When God Says “no”, it’s because He Has something better in store for you

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

Lakshmi Mittal

“There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God’s purposes, and yours may be that life.” Oswald Chambers

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”

Kahlil Gibran

“And as Mansell comes into the pits, he’s quite literally sweating his eyeballs out.”

UK Sports coverage on TV

When I’m a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they’ll believe me because they weren’t listening to me.

Kylie Bax, Model/Actress, in Stuff magazine.

“Reports are sketchy, but we have heard that in the first heart transplant operation in Belgium, both patient and donor are doing fine.”

Radio news announcer

“While sitting in a tavern, someone hit my nose from behind.”

Reason given for insurance claim.

It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human…

George W Bush

“Traffic is very heavy at the moment, so if you are thinking of leaving now, you’d better set off a few minutes earlier.”

“We’d like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles.”

Wesley Bolin, Governor

“If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”

Radio has no future…

“They are not jackbooted Nazi thugs. They are merely German policemen in spiffy uniforms here to help us.”

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction…

Pierre Pachet, 1872

“I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.”

Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau…

“Wonderful bargains for men with 16 and 17 necks.”

Sign in Men’s clothing store

“If you walk backwards, you’ll find out that you can go forwards and people won’t know if you’re coming or going.”

Casel Stengal, former Baseball player

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Robert McCloskey

“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite”

Murray Walker, Sportscaster