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God warns us that seeking our own brand of contentment apart from Him is futile, for “the bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.”

Marsha Crockett

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward things we are

“Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.” Dwight L. Moody

“The first duty of love is to listen.” — Paul Tillich

If you want to stand high, think high.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.

“The more we meditate on the cross, the deeper our companionship and knowledge gets of Christ the Lord.” Pishoy Kamel

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Love rules without rules.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it.  God will waste nothing.

Phillips Brooks

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream

 You don’t need to see the way if you follow the one that is the Way.

Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Van alles wat jy dra is jou uitdrukking die belangrikste.

It is not only who you are, but whose you are.

“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

“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.

“I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad.”

Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player

“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

Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.

Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

No audience will ever be able to take more than ten minutes of animation…

“Facts are stupid things.”

Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President

I’ve been up and down so many times that I feel as if I’m in a revolving door…

“My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.”

Spike Milligan

“I’m gonna live forever, or die trying.”

Joseph Heller

“Well, that was a cliff-dweller.”

Wes Westrum, Baseball coach, about a close game

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”

Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

“Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.”

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.”

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

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

“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”

Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull’s team chemistry being overrated.

“The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”

“That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.”

Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left winger, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker

“It is thought that Raj Mohammed Poselay was beaten to death, possibly during a family fun day in the park.”

Newspaper, Wolverton Express & Star (UK)

“That’s just the tip of the ice cube.”

Neil Hamilton, BBC2