Quotes

[tulc]

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I
notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B Anthony (reformer and suffragist (1820-1906))

 

[tulc]

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
-Mark Twain

 

[tulc]

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

 

[tulc]

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
-Thomas Jefferson

 

[tulc]

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
-Mark Twain (Adam, in Adam's Diary)

 

[Loki]

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
-Mark Twain (Adam, in Adam's Diary)

Great little read that is.

 

[tulc]

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-Otto von Bismarck

 

[demodocos]

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher and politician; 1749-1832)

 

[demodocos]

"I've been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto and NASCAR on PlayStation. I thought I could get away."

- Tyrone McMillan, after leading police in New York State on a high-speed chase that spanned three towns.

 

[Kaonashi]

Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."

 

[LovebirdsFlying]

Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."

That sounds good, but could you provide a reference? I'd like to study it.

 

[Kaonashi]

That sounds good, but could you provide a reference? I'd like to study it.

It's from the Gospel of Thomas.

 

[ForAMomentIWillFly]

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
-Dr. Seuss.

 

[camethodactor]

"Go out into the highways and byways of America, your new country. Give the people, blanketed with a decaying and crumbling Calvinism, something of your new vision. You may possess only a small light but uncover it, let it shine, use it in order to bring more light and understanding to the hearts and minds of men. Give them, not hell, but hope and courage. Do not push them deeper into their theological despair, but preach the kindness and everlasting love of God"
- Rev. John Murray, Father of American Universalism

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world" -Eugene V. Debs