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“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G. K. Chesterton

Two things hard on the heart: running up stairs and running down people.

“Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.”

Julian of Norwich

“It is possible to do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.”

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning. Martin Luther

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Henry David Thoreau

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

“God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.” A. W. Tozer

Joy comes from using your potential

A people that values its privileges above its principals soon
loses both

“Speech any man may attain to, but “act” is difficult.”

Charles H. Spurgeon

Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

The center of God’s will is our only safety

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

Let us see God before man every day.

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

We walk by faith. We walk in love. But we walk by faith and in love because of hope.

“God always gives us what we ask for – or something better.”

“God examines both rich and poor, not according to their lands and houses, but according to the riches of their hearts.” St. Augustine of Hippo

“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

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”

Samuel Goldwyn

It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister…

Margaret Thatcher

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 said LUNCH not LAUNCH!!!!”

Nasa Launch Control

“We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door – the bell doesn’t work.)”

Sign on door of repair shop

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

Radio has no future…

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

Spike Milligan

It is impossible to transmit speech electrically. The ‘telephone’ is as mythical as the unicorn.
Professor Johann Christian Poggendorrf, Germany physicist and chemist, 1860

“The FA are still optimistic about England’s bid to stage the World Cup in twenty thousand and six.”

Peter Snow, BBC2 anchorman

“I say no to drugs, but they don’t listen.”

Marilyn Manson, Singer

“Danger Slow Men At Work”

Road sign in Brunei

“After the tea break, staff should empty the teapot and stand upside down on the draining board.”

Sign in a British office.

“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.”

Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.

You read what Disraeli had to say. I don’t remember what he said. He said something. He’s no longer with us.

Bob Dole

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Henny Youngman

"The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a good planet."

Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars.

I feel my best when I’m happy.

Winona Ryder