Favourite Quotes (Non-biblical)

[Cajun Huguenot]

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.-- Ben Franklin

 

[Zeek]

You can't stop the birds flying overhead, but you can stop them nesting in your hair. (Chinese proverb)

 

[MLynn]

Theodore Roosevelt - "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education"

One of my favorites...

 

[AlexBP]

"Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more relevant realism, said that they were all fools. This doctrine is sometimes called the doctrine of original sin. It may also be described as the doctrine of equality among men." - G. K. Chesterton

 

[TheGrungeDiva]

I've seen a series of bumper stickers or billboards of "quotes" from God like:

"Don't make me come down there." -God
"Keep taking my name in vain, and I'll make rush hour longer." -God
"That 'love your neighbor' thing? I meant it." -God

I like those.

 

[AlexBP]

"When I became a man, I laid aside childish things, including the desire to not appear childish." - C. S. Lewis

 

[alexier]

Well trying not to use Biblical ones - I would have to say that these are my fave quotes and they are quite different!

AMERICAN HISTORY X - Has anything you've done made your l...ife better?

DODGEBALL - I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed.

DR WHO / QUEER AS FOLK -Unrequited love. It's fantastic, 'cause it never has to change, it never has to grow up and it never has to die!

ST TERESA OF AVILA - Let nothing trouble you,
let nothing make you afraid.
All things pass away.
God never changes.
Patience obtains everything.
God alone is enough

 

[mark46]

The prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

 

[mark46]

Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.

 

[ebia]

Since we are all made in the image of God every man, woman and child knows something of God that nobody else knows. (Cardinal Basil Hume)

 

[Naomi4Christ]

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing

Or words to that effect, attributed (perhaps erroneously, to Edmund Burke).

 

[brindisi]

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground / Mercy I asked, mercy I found.”--William camden

 

[Naomi4Christ]

Oh would some power the Giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.

Robert Burns, To a louse.

 

[brindisi]

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."--John Donne, Meditation XVII

 

[Memento Mori]

"The greatest victories are won on the edge of defeat." Don't laugh, but that came from that '90s Hercules series.

The spiritual life seems to operate like that many times.

 

[theseagullwithoneleg]

Have you seen this boy??? terminator

 

[AlexBP]

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - G. K. Chesterton

"Brethren, let our sins be bold, but let our faith in Jesus Christ be bolder still, for he is victorious over sin, death, and the world." - Martin Luther

"A computer beat me at chess once, but it was no match for me at kickboxing." - Emo Philips

 

[singpeace]

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

 

[AlexBP]

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." - G. K. Chesterton