Quotations
For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
------- Top 10 -------
"In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity."
-- Augustine
"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest."
-- Corrie Ten Boom
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."
-- Jim Elliot
"Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing."
-- Lee Strobel
"Only one life, it will soon be past; Only what's done for Christ will last."
-- C.T. Studd
"If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing."
-- Blaise Pascal
"God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about."
-- Jerry Bridges
"Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
-- James M. Barrie
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
-- Horace Walpole
"All truth is God's truth."
-- John Calvin
"It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin."
-- Jerome
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
-- Augustine of Hippo
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
-- C. S. Lewis
"An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."
-- John Wesley
"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can."
-- John Wesley
I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
-- John Wesley
"The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief."
-- T. S. Eliot
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein
"In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."
-- C. S. Lewis
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
-- C. S. Lewis
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be' - she always called me Elwood - 'In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
-- Elwood P. Dowd
"Jesus is coming, look busy."
-- Tattooed on the bottom of the fake Archbishop of Canterbury in the movie Johnny English
-- Also appears on various T-shirts, and also on an episode of The Simpsons
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other."
-- George Washington
(The quote often attributed to Washington, "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.", is apparently spurious.)
"Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
-- Martin Luther, Speech at the Diet of Worms (April 18, 1521)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
-- Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"
-- Mother Teresa
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
-- Arthur Rubenstein
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart".
-- Helen Keller
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
-- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
"A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it."
-- Stephen Covey
"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."
-- Jerome
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
-- Robert McCloskey
"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment."
-- George Carlin
"I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work."
-- George Carlin
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
-- Soren Kierkegaard
"Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm."
-- George Canning
2016
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
-- Muhammad Ali
"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already."
-- Dave Barry
"Apologize when you are wrong, never apologize for being who you are."
-- Misty Burch
"The things that are urgent are seldom important and the things that are important are seldom urgent."
--- Dwight D. Eisenhower
2017
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
-- Francis Bacon
"Prayer is not preparation for the battle, prayer is the battle."
-- Brother Andrew, founder of Open Doors.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-- Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
-- Charles M. Schulz
"The mushroom once said to me 'You must have a plan. If you don't have a plan, you will become part of somebody else's plan'."
-- Terence McKenna
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
-- Francis of Assisi
"Pray, and let God worry."
-- Martin Luther
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
2018
"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God."
-- William Carey
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."
-- Werner Heisenberg
"Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear."
-- Mark Cuban
"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
-- Paulo Coelho
2019
"A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyses, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed."
-- seen on Facebook
"I visited a monastery once and as I walked by the kitchen, I noticed a man frying chips so I said to the man, 'Are you the friar?' and he replied, 'No, I'm just the Chip Monk.'"
-- ( thanks to B. Tajiri )
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
2020
"You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
-- Olin Miller
(also attributed to David Foster Wallace and Eleanor Roosevelt)
"If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me."
-- John Wooden
“Courage is fear that has said it’s prayers!"
-- attributed variously to Karle Wilson Baker, Dorothy Bernard and others
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
-- William Arthur Ward
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Love cannot exist without freedom."
"Humility is simply accepting the reality of who God is and who you are."
"Love can’t rule when shame is in charge."
-- John Townsend
"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be."
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
-- Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
2021
"If you cannot feed a hundred people, feed one."
-- Mother Teresa
"Hearing only one side of an issue is like an airplane with only one wing."
-- Sue Holding
"Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers? He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them."
-- unknown?
"Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others."
-- Chris Gardner
“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong."
-- Elon Musk
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
-- Augustine
"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent."
-- Augustine
"If you but love God you may do as you incline."
-- Augustine
"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."
-- Augustine
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
-- Augustine
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
-- Augustine
"True encouragement must first of all be true."
"Three quarters of getting the right answer is asking the right question."
"Be Christlike in morality and be yourself in personality."
"Pray and Obey. Do your best and trust God for the rest.""
-- Anonymous
2022
"Truth without Grace is Legalism. Grace without Truth is Relativism. Jesus was full of Grace and Truth."
-- Dudley Rutherford
"I’ve noticed that my talking to a person about God seems to go better when I have first talked to God about that person."
-- Rick Atchley (rt Dudley Rutherford)
"Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service."
-- Brian Tracy
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
-- Elon Musk
"Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful."
-- Elon Musk
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."
-- John Maxwell
"To be a disciple means to live my life as Jesus would live my life if He were I."
-- Robert Jeffress, quoting Dallas Willard
"If you think this country's bad off now, just wait 'til I get through with it."
-- Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup
2023
“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
"I’ve only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can."
-- Colonel Sanders
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The secret of living is giving!"
-- Anthony Robbins
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
-- Jesus Christ
------- Computing -------
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
"Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence."
"If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up."
"When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem."
"I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
"... the question of whether Machines Can Think ... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
-- C. A. R. Hoare (Known as "Hoare's Dictum" about computer programming)
-- (another version by Donald Knuth)
"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
"Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations."
-- John von Neumann
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
-- John von Neumann
"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
-- Charles Kettering
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
-- Niels Bohr
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
-- Niels Bohr
"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."
-- Douglass Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
"What AI people won’t tell is that building quality content is a NP- Complete problem, meaning that AI can build tons of crappy content very efficiently and come up with a good idea once every 2 billion years."
-- Alejandro Gonzalez Perez
------- Music and Video -------
"You are the music while the music lasts."
-- T. S. Eliot
"Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe."
"[The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form - www - takes three times longer to say than what it's short for."
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." (Marvin)
"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'"
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer." (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
"There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-- Douglas Adams
"Plato was right. Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and flight to the imagination..."
-- Theo Rodriguez
The great composer Johann Sebastian Bach said, "The aim and final reason of all music is none else but the glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit."
-- https://www.gracechurch.org/music
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