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Security is our nearness to God, not our distance from danger.

We are what we think about all day along.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

C.S. Lewis

Let Him make our lives narrow; let Him make them intense; let Him make them absolutely His!

The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. ~Spurgeon, C. H.

The direct experience of God is grace indeed, and basically there is no one to whom it is refused.

Jesus is in the boat with us, no matter how wild the storm is, and He is at peace. He commands us not to be afraid.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

It is the heart
always that sees before the head can see

Human beings need not despair and go on an eternal search for the Eternal, for the Eternal has come to the temporal. Steve Kumar

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

Margaret B. Runbeck

We can often do more for other men by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Samuel Johnson

Keep yourself as a pilgrim and a stranger here in this world, as one to whom the world’s business counts but little. Keep your heart free, and always lift it up to God.

Thomas à Kempis

“It is no small thing to be on terms of friendship with God.” Author Unknown

Gentle words fall lightly, but have great weight.

Grace: a gift that costs everything for the giver and nothing for the recipient. ~Philip Yancey

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
Jess Lair

“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

“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

“We are sorry to announce that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover.”

Parish Magazine

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

Joseph Heller

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet”

Al Gore

“I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.”

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

Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

Dan Quayle

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It’s only the people who make them unsafe.

Mayor Frank Rizzo

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

The atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives…

“Today is Thursday. Or what I like to call on Friday, ‘yesterday.’”

Jimmy Fallon

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

Dan Quayle

“I said LUNCH not LAUNCH!!!!”

Nasa Launch Control

“Mr. Milosevic has to be careful. The calendar is ticking.”

Richard Haas, NBC News consultant

Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound.

Ad in the “Missoulian” by Orange Street Food Farm

“Guys aren’t able to get $15 or $20 million anymore, so you have to play for the love of the game.”

Penny Hardaway, NBA Basketball Player

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

Dick Cavett