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“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

Tom Krause

“We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.” John Churtom Collins

Relying on God has to begin over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Clement of Alexandria

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. ~Joseph Fort Newton

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

 Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God’s elect, that they should believe. ~Owen, John

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

At creation we see the hand of God, but at the cross we see His heart.

Charles Lowery

“We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him.”

Paul E. Scherer

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Victor Hugo

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Thomas Watson

It is a good answer which knows when to stop

“Man shots neighbor with machete.”

Miami Herald, headline

“I’ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right”

Marlon Starling

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

Dick Cavett

“A brain scan revealed Andrew Caddick is not suffering from a stress fracture of the shin.”

Jo Sheldon

“Can you hear me? Squeeze once for yes and twice for no.”

Police detective questioning a wounded officer

“I don’t think we learned a lesson; I think it was a learning experience for us.”

Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player, after game 4 of the 2001 NBA finals, on being asked by NBC reporter Jim Gray if LA had learned a lesson from what happened the previous year in Indiana

“SAFETY FIRST: Please put on your seat belt – prepare for accident.”

Sign on backseat of Taxi

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

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

George W Bush

Rural Americans are real Americans. There’s no doubt about that…

Dan Quayle

“I said LUNCH not LAUNCH!!!!”

Nasa Launch Control

“Sure, it’s going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.”

Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.

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

Joseph Heller

“I didn’t know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.”

Aggie Pate, at a non-denominational mayor’s breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

Yogi Berra

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

A friend is someone who’s there when he needs you

Anon

“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.

“Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding.”

Mickey Rivers, baseball player