My Page of Quotes and Verses

• "A woman cannot love a man she feels to be her inferior; love without veneration and enthusiasm is only friendship." -- George Sand
  
• "The only way to understand any woman is to love her...and then it isn't necessary to understand her." --Sydney J. Harris
  
• "It is impossible to love and be wise." --Francis Bacon
  
• "Where there is love, there is life." --Nahatma Gandhi
  
• "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." --Franklin P. Jones
  
• "Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without good sense." --Proverbs 11:22
  
• "Don't love it too much, or it might be taken away from you." --Willa Cather
  
• "Men and Mellons are hard to know." --Ben Franklin
  
• "Just as the sun warms the Earth, love warms our hearts." --Red Bear
  
• "Be excellent to each other." --Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
  
• "Love is always a blessing." --Sharon Kahle
  
• "Take good care of her - you won't understand how special she is until you lose her." --Evelyn
• "Listen, listen; Love, love." --T.J.
  
• "Walk in love."
  
• "You jump, I jump!" --Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic
  
• "Don't shoot, hug!"
  

Life and Advice

• "Love truth, but pardon error." --Voltaire
  
• "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." --Proverbs 27:3
  
• "For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these: 'It might have been.'" --Maud Muller Whittier
  
• "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you." --Phillipians 4:8-9
  
• "Do not attribute to deviousness what can be better explained by incompetence." --Greg Rice
  
• "Do not judge, or you too will be judged."
• "Are you fishing for something?"
• "Never take away someone's hope/faith. It might be all they have." --Alicia Shropshire
  
• "Dear God,
  So far today, I haven't lost my temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or over-indulgent. I'm really glad about that. But in a few minutes, God, I'm going to get out of bed and from then on I'm probably going to need a lot more help.
  Thank You, Amen."
  
• "Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most."
  
• "All the talent in the world does not excuse deliberate rudeness." --Lee Iacoca
  
• "If you hold a low opinion of yourself, don't expect the world to raise it any." --Wilson from Home Improvement
  
• "Shh! Amy is sleeping." --Bonnie Champion
  
• "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." --common saying repeatedly recited by Michelle
  
• "We are everday angels." --Jewel
• "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." --James M. Barrie
  
• "Cooperation is spelled with two letters: WE." --G.M. Verity
  
• "Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two rocks stand alone: One is kindness to another's trouble and the Other is courage for your own."
  
• "It is better to be laughed at than laughed with."
  "I don't repeat anything." --Mr. Foster
  
• "Life is fragile. Handle with prayer." --a bumper sticker
  
• "The only way to deal with absurdity is to recognise it." --Judith Guest
  
• "You can do anything you put your mind to." --George Washington
  
• "I want our class to have the most coins!" --Skink
  
• "Tolerance reeks of intolerance." --Mr. Eyrich
  
• "Hey, that's like the story where the demon-possesed pigs jumped over the cliff." [person 1]
  "What movie is that from?" [person 2]
  Moral--Know the manual (the Bible)! --a conversation
  
• "If you're good at something, you don't have to tell people - they already know." --Mr. Larimer
  
• "Hey, how ya doin'? Isn't that El Nino a real sucker?" --Eric Allan
  
• "We just can't stump the Dummy!"
  
• "Poohstranglestinker!" --Eric Allan
  
• "Everything's just ducky" --Chris Moorehead
  
• "Label, number, unit of measure; IE: ; say what you mean, mean what you say; MADAM; Be SPECIFIC!!!!" --Mr. George
  

Finding Peace & What to do in worry

• "The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." --Phillipians 4:5-7
  

Sin, Repentance, and the Battle with Evil

• "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, the authoritites, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand." --Ephesians 6:12-13
  
• "But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips." --Colossians 3:8
  
• "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgement for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be aquitted, and by your words you will be condemned." --Matthew 12:36-37
  
• "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or the age to come." --Matthew 12:30-32
  
• "Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." --C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
  
• "Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard." --Acts 20:30-31
  
• "He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him." --1 John 3:8-9
  

Perserverance and Hope

• "Though a righteous man falls 7 times, he rises again." --Proverbs 24:16
  
• "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." --Psalm 23:4
  
• "I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me....Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me Heavenward in Christ Jesus." --Philippians 3:12-14
  
• "In the darkest hour, the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure." --Heart Warrior Chosa
  

Witnessing and Reaching out in Love

• "We're called to be missionaries wherever we are -- to slander no one, to be peacable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men."
  
• "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and self-discipline. So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord." --2 Timothy 1:7-8
  
• "However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me--the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace." --Acts 20:24
  
• "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes." --Romans 1:16
  
• "Some people will never know of God's love--unless you show it to them in your life everyday."
  

Christian Qualities

• "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the maouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him." --Matthew 12:33-35
  
• "Obey... and do it, not only when their eye is one you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord." --Colossians 3:22
  
• "The righteousness that comes from God and is by faith." --Philippians 3:9
  
• "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law." --Romans 13:8
  
• "For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit." --1 Thessalonians 4:7-8
  
• "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on isnning, because he has been born of God." --1 John 3:9
  
• "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his osn, purifies us from all sin." --1 John 1:7
  
• "This is how we know...Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." --1 John 3:10
  
• "For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." --Romans 1:17
  
• "If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of His." --Eugenia Price
  
• "There must be a serious flaw in the character of those who make it a habit to disparage the abilities of their best friends."
  

Salvation and Life in Christ

• "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I lead in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself to me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law Christ died for nothing!" --Galatians 2:20-21
  
• "But, if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. this is how we know we are in him: whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did." --1 John 2:5-6
  
• "But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sin. And in him there is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him." --1 John 3:5-6
  
• "If God is your copilot, maybe you better switch seats."
  
• "Don't become so indoctrinated by the influence of your culture that you lose the ability to think before you respond. Instead, stop for a moment and ask yourself this simple question: What Would Jesus Do?"
  
• "Get infused . . . (be filled with the Spirit)."
  

quotes from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

• "Unlimited power is the ideal when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government. An earthly despotism would be the absolutely perfect earthly government, if the conditions were the same, namely, the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life pertpetual. But as a perishable perfect man must die, and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form possible." --p.64-64
  
• "Well, one must make the best of things, and not waste time with useless fretting, but get down to business and see what can be done." --p.68
  
• "But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel." --p.72
  
• "And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up and banners flying, at the other end of it; had elected itself to be the Nation, and these innumerable clams had permitted it so long that they had come at last to accept it as a truth; and not only that, but to believe it right and as it should be. The priests had told their fathers and themselves that this ironical sate of things was ordained of God; and so, not reflecting upon how unlike God it would be to amuse himself with sarcasms, and especially such poor transparent ones as this, they had dropped the matter there and become respectfully quiet." --p.81-82
  
• "You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its istitutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--that is loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it. I was from Connecticut, whose Constitution declares that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit; and that they have at all times and undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient." --p.84-85
  
• "Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor." --p.85
  
• "It was the stubborn unreasoning of the time. It was useless to argue with her. Arguements have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. And her training was everybody's. The brightest intellect in the land would not have been able to see that her position was defective." --p.109
  
• "We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us." --p.114
  
• "And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage, this pathetic drift between the eternities, is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life, and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me: the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care." --p.114
  
• "You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns." --p.128
  
• "My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything." --p.132
  
• "How easy it is to seem a lunatic to a person who has not been taught." --p.132
  
• "There it was, you see. A man is a man, at bottom. Whole ages of abuse and oppression cannot crush the manhood clear out of him. Whoever thinks it a mistake, is himself mistaken. Yes, there is plenty good enough material for a republic in the most degraded people that ever existed...if one could but force it out of its timid and suspicious privacy, to overthrow and trample in the mud any throne that ever was set up and any nobility that ever supported it."
  
• "...the behavior--born of nice and exact subdivisions of caste--of chance passerby toward each other. Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat jowls, the coal burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a countenance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air--he couldn't even see him. Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce."
  
• "'Ah brother, 'tis nothing--such hospitality!'
  'But it is something; the best a man has, freely given, is always something, and is as good as a prince can do, and ranks right along beside it--for even a prince can but do his best."
  
• "You see, in a country where they have ranks and castes, a man isn't ever a man, he is only part of a man, he can't ever get his full growth. You prove your superiority over him in station, or rank, or fortune and that's the end of it--he knuckles you down. You can't insult him after that."
  
• "I was an unknown person, among a cruelly oppressed and suspicious people, a people always accustomed to having advantage taken of their helplessness, and never expecting just or kind treatment from any but their own families and very closest intimates. Appeal to me to be gentle, to be fair, to be generous? Of course they wanted to, but they couldn't dare."