cool quotes

[tulc]

"Man is a religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ... The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."
-Mark Twain (The Lowest Animal)

 

[Christi]

"Why don't we really get radical for once? Yes, I know it wasn't easy to
get the word radical understood as an adjective appropriate to discipleship.
And yes, it was even harder to get revolution and revolutionary so
understood. But do you think it a bit more than the traffic can bear for me
now to push on to anarchy? Do you see me going from bad to worse? Not so. I
stand prepared to show that to go from revolution to anarchy is to go from wrong
to right, from misunderstanding to understanding, from unbiblical to biblical, from
world to gospel. And yes, it will take another transforming renewal of our minds to understand anarchy as the gospel, the good news it actually is".
-Vernard Eller

I love this one, Tulc. If I had a brother, I'd want him to be you.

 

[tulc]

I love this one, Tulc. If I had a brother, I'd want him to be you.

But, but I thought I was your brother!?!
tulc

 

[Christi]

But, but I thought I was your brother!?!
tulc

Okay, you are. But if you shoot mashed potatoes at me through a straw at dinner, I'm telling Mom!!!!

 

[tulc]

Well I don't have a straw, but:
[move] MASHEDPOTATOMASHEDPOTATO!!!![/move]
Ol'Betsy is always at hand!
tulc

 

[Christi]

MOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!! Tulc's got Betsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And make him quit looking at me!

 

[tulc]

The difference between organized religion and spirituality is that organized
religion teaches you to fear hell;
spirituality is for people who have already been there.
-Gary Bussey

 

[freespirit2001]

" A spiritualized society would live likes its spiritual individuals, not in the ego, but in the spirit, not as the collective ego, but as the collective soul."

Sri Auro Bindo

 

[Tenorvoice]

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succedd is always try one more time." Thomas Edison

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed" Patrick Henry

"That Book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests" Andrew Jackson

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible" George Washington

 

[tulc]

A Child's Wisdom
A child brought me a pebble, white and smooth and round.
"What a wonderful thing!" he said.
"Wonderful?" said I. There are millions and millions of things like that."
"Then," he said, "There are millions and millions of wonderful things."
-Century Magazine, May, 1894

 

[freespirit2001]

" The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

Ralph W. Sockman

 

[Christi]

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that, but he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.---F.W. Robertson


contributed by Christi, who has made lots of mistakes that she hopes to retrieve.

 

[freespirit2001]

[shadow=purple] " Sing again with your dear voice,

Revealing a tone, of some world far from ours,

Where music and moonlight and feeling are one." [/shadow]

Shelley

 

[~Sporky~]

"Faith, is daring the mind to go beyond what the eyes refuse to see." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien.

 

[tulc]

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God
-Martin Luther

 

[freespirit2001]

THE STORY OF THE SILENT MONKS

There was a monastery near Aspen, Colorado, called Snowmass.
All the monks have taken a vow of silence. They rarely speak.
Each day begins with morning worship.The service starts when the head abbot comes in and chants, "Good morning."

The monks chant in reply, "Good Morning."

They say not another word until evening vespers, when the head abbot somes in and chants, "Good Evening."

The monks all reply in unison, "Good Evening." Not another word is spoken until the next morning.

Several years ago one of the monks decided he had to break up the boredom of this routine. The next morning when the head abbot chanted, "Good Morning," all the other monks chanted "Good Morning," except the one bored monk who, hiding his identity from the other monks chanted, "Good evening."

Quickly, the head abbot sang in reply, "Some-one chanted evening...He must be a stranger..."

(revdave...www.awpi.com)

 

[tulc]

Green Eggs and Hamlet

I ask to be, or not to be.
That is the question, I ask of me.
This sullied life, it makes me shudder.
My uncle's boffing dear, sweet mother.
Would I, could I take my life?
Could I, should I, end this strife?
Should I jump out of a plane?
Or throw myself before a train?
Should I from a cliff just leap?
Could I put myself to sleep?
Shoot myself, or take some poison?
Maybe try self immoloition?
To shudder off this mortal coil,
I could stab myself with a fencing foil.
Slash my wrists while in the bath?
Would it end my angst and wrath?
To sleep, to dream, now there's the rub.
I could drop a toaster in my tub.
Would all be glad, if I were dead?
Could I perhaps kill them instead?
This line of thought takes consideration -
For I'm the king of procrastination.
-Vaughn Ward

 

[Tenorvoice]

what this country needs is more unemployed politicians

Edward Langley


Keep your eyes wide open before marrige and half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

I have learned that only two things are necassary to keep your wife happy. First, let her THINK that she is getting her way. And second let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

 

[tof]

On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées
[One resists the invasion of armies, but not the invasion of ideas]
Victor Hugo

 

[freespirit2001]

[shadow=plum] "FREEDOM [/shadow] IS A POSITIVE FORCE....FLOWING UP FROM A SPRING OF BOUNDLESS DEPTH. FREEDOM IS THE POWER TO CREATE OUT OF NOTHING, THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT TO CREATE OUT OF ITSELF."

---Nikolai Berdyayev