Just Quotes

The Format for the favorite pics was all screwy, so I'll just post links to it this weekend.

Here are the Quotes:

"I may, I suppose, regard myself or pass for being a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets and that's fame. I can fairly easily earn enough to qualify for admission into the higher slopes of the England revenue and that's success [he paid high taxes]. Furnished with money and a little fame, even the elderly, if they care to, may partake of trendy diversions and that's pleasure. It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote was sufficiently heeded for me to persuade myself that it represented a serious impact on our time and that's fulfillment. Yet I say to you, and I beg you to believe me! Multiply these tiny triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing! Less than nothing! A positive impediment measured against one draft of that living water Christ offers to the spiritually thirsty, irrespective of who or what they are. What, I ask myself, does life hold? What is there in the works of time, in the past, now, and to come, which could possibly be put in the balance of the refreshment of drinking that water?"

-Malcolm Muggeridge

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for the law."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When Christians are exposed to public insult, when they suffer and die for his sake, Christ takes on visible form in his Church. Here we see the divine image created anew through the power of Christ crucified." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

-C.S. Lewis

"Hope is not victory."

-J.R.R. Tolkien

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."

-Steven Wright

"As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality." Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom."

-Ronald Reagan

[about renouncing Satan at his daughter's baptism] I wish I had sprouted devil wings and said, "I do not! I'll be baaaack!" and gone off to my mountain lair.

-Conan O'Brien

"There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on "Friends" is. "

-Jon Stewart

"There is no promise more surely given, anywhere in the Bible, than that God will give the Spirit to those who ask."

-Archibald Alexander

"Pharisees couldn't stand him; but they found out they couldn't stop him. Pilate couldn't find any fault in him; the witnesses couldn't get their testimonies to agree. Herod couldn't kill him; Death couldn't handle him, and the grave couldn't hold him. He has always been and he always will be. He had no predecessor and he has no successor. There was nobody before him and there will be no one after him. You can't impeach him and he isn't going to resign."

-S.M. Lockridge

"Pastors are like manure. If you spread them out, they can do a good job of what they are supposed to be doing. But if you pile them all together, it's not a pretty picture."

-Rick Downs

"God is much more prone to be ready to forgive your sins than you are to believe he is."

-Can't find the source on this one.

"Following Adam's course, it is now not by obedience to the Word, but by twisting or suppressing God's Word that the upward ascent is attempted. Ignoring the Fall, this theology of glory is the revelation of the Law still ringing in the conscience with the false witness of the human agent answering back in self-confident autonomy, always trying to infer the inevitable verdict, thinking their original problem was merely shame rather than guilt, Adam and Eve covered themselves with loincloths. And ever since, we have found ourselves incapable, or rather unwilling, to accept the radical diagnosis of our own depravity. We can talk about the evil outside of us, the others, whomever they may be, evil places, forces, structures, and principles; but like the religious leaders whom Jesus challenged, we refuse to locate the evil in ourselves."

-Michael Horton

"The entire story of the Bible can be summed up by the words 'But God.'"

-Anon







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