March 2010

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden. (Ashleigh Brilliant) 

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. (Mark Twain) 

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. (Albert Einstein) 

All sins are attempts to fill voids. (Simone Weil) 

Trust your friends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light. (Jennie Churchill) 

Thinking is like loving and dying: Each of us must do it for himself. (Josiah Royce) 

February 2010

Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God. (Lenny Bruce) 

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.  (Christina Georgina Rossetti, Who Has Seen the Wind?) 

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. (Thomas Jefferson) 

Better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. (Elizabeth Kenny) 

Always remember you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. (Margaret Mead) 

Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God. (Lenny Bruce) 

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing. (Buddy Hacketti) 

January 2010

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. (Miguel de Cervantes) 

God does not play dice. (Albert Einstein) 

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) 

It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. (G K Chesterton) 

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. (Doug McLeod) 

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?  (Lily Tomlin) 

December 2009

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord (Bible, Proverbs: 19:17) 

Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently. (Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution) 

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear (Matthew, 11:15) 

You have a loaf of bread under each arm and you're crying because you don't have any ham? (Old Neapolitan [Italian] saying) 

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. (William James) 

Don't wait for your ship to come in – row out to meet it. (Unknown wise person) 

November 2009

Before honor is humility (Bible, Proverbs: 15:33 & 18:12) 

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. (Miguel de Cervantes) 

The spirit of God is the brother of my own (Walt Whitman, Song of Myself) 

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. (John Galsworthy, Windows) 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions. (Blaise Pascal) 

October 2009 

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine (Bible: Proverbs: 17:22) 

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. (John Stuart Mill, On Liberty) 

The first man to raise a fist is the man who has run out of ideas. (H G Wells) 

God has no religion. (Mahatma Gandhi) 

Physician, heal thyself.  (Luke, chapter 4, v.23)