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"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." -George Gobol
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A serious quote but one of my favorites:
Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure-to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.
-Annie Dillard, In Fact
Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure-to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.
-Annie Dillard, In Fact
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oh well I did not catch it.
Some of my fave MADELEINE L'ENGLE quotes. She's my FAVE!!!
"We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending!"
"If I could comprehend God completely, God wouldn't be worth bothering about. I'm finite, God is infinite; the finite cannot comprehend the infinite. But we get enough glimpses."
"No wonder I yell for a God I do not understand in times of stress. Every time I've tried to depend on a human being it's been disastrous."
"Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others."
"We pin him [Jesus] down, far more painfully than he was nailed to the cross, so that he is rational and comprehensible and like us, and even more unreal. And that won't do. That won't get me through death and danger and pain, nor life and freedom and joy."
"We can pray for those we love in far off places knowing that our prayer is there instantly. It transcends time. Prayer breaks the boundaries of time."
"When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love."
"If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. "
Some of my fave MADELEINE L'ENGLE quotes. She's my FAVE!!!
"We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending!"
"If I could comprehend God completely, God wouldn't be worth bothering about. I'm finite, God is infinite; the finite cannot comprehend the infinite. But we get enough glimpses."
"No wonder I yell for a God I do not understand in times of stress. Every time I've tried to depend on a human being it's been disastrous."
"Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others."
"We pin him [Jesus] down, far more painfully than he was nailed to the cross, so that he is rational and comprehensible and like us, and even more unreal. And that won't do. That won't get me through death and danger and pain, nor life and freedom and joy."
"We can pray for those we love in far off places knowing that our prayer is there instantly. It transcends time. Prayer breaks the boundaries of time."
"When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love."
"If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. "
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Bitnd12
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Yay, quotes page! Good idea, even if you are a troll...thing... I guess. Anyway, here goes.
“Death is not extinguishing the light. Rather, it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” - Rabindranath Tagore
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice."-Thomas Paine
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigues of supporting it." -Thomas Paine
(Can you tell I like Thomas Paine?)
"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."-Thomas Jefferson
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."-Joan of Arc
"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
"The years teach much which the days never know."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And hey Steph, can we include lyrics or is this solely a "quote-quote"-not-a-"song-quote" sorta deal?
Good idea, even if you are a troll...thing... I guess. Anyway, here goes.“Death is not extinguishing the light. Rather, it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” - Rabindranath Tagore
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice."-Thomas Paine
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigues of supporting it." -Thomas Paine
(Can you tell I like Thomas Paine?)
"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."-Thomas Jefferson
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."-Joan of Arc
"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
"The years teach much which the days never know."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And hey Steph, can we include lyrics or is this solely a "quote-quote"-not-a-"song-quote" sorta deal?
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"If you thin everything is going along well, then you obviously haven't been paying attention."
"If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible time."
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever should believe in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
"Stephanie Amber, you rock!"
"If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible time."
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever should believe in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
"Stephanie Amber, you rock!"
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A society that accepts the killing of a third of its babies as women's 'emancipation,' that considers homosexual marriage to be social progress, that hands out contraceptives to 13-year-old girls at junior high ought to be seeking out a confessional — better yet, an exorcist — rather than striding into a pulpit like Elmer Gantry to lecture mankind on the superiority of 'American values' - Pat Buchanan
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[FONT=sans-serif, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular]A couple of my favorite Dostoevsky (from the Brothers Karamazov)
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
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Awesome quotes so far
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." ~ CS Lewis
"Honesty is the best policy." ~ Anonymous
Steph, seriously, can we use music/movie quotes, or just real people quotes?
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." ~ CS Lewis
"Honesty is the best policy." ~ Anonymous
Steph, seriously, can we use music/movie quotes, or just real people quotes?
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Thunder Peel
You don't eat a peacock until it's cooked.
Some are from fiction and some are from real-life.
"If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds..."-C.S. Lewis
"Maybe that's the answer, what God wants: Don't give up."-Fox Mulder
"That's part of the journey of life, finding out who you are. You may have something that the world desperately needs, but you won't find that by being someone you're not."-Bono
"I am a fatalist, and believe that my time is appointed to come quite independently of my own movements...God Almighty, no doubt, knows His mind about me, so I need not trouble on that point."-Alan Quartermain, "King Solomon's Mines"
"Axel," the Professor replied very calmly, "our situation is almost desperate, but there are a few chances our our escaping, and I am considering these. If we may die any moment, we may also be saved at any moment. So let us be prepared to seize the slightest opportunity."-Journey to the Center of the Earth
"You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it."-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
"If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds..."-C.S. Lewis
"Maybe that's the answer, what God wants: Don't give up."-Fox Mulder
"That's part of the journey of life, finding out who you are. You may have something that the world desperately needs, but you won't find that by being someone you're not."-Bono
"I am a fatalist, and believe that my time is appointed to come quite independently of my own movements...God Almighty, no doubt, knows His mind about me, so I need not trouble on that point."-Alan Quartermain, "King Solomon's Mines"
"Axel," the Professor replied very calmly, "our situation is almost desperate, but there are a few chances our our escaping, and I am considering these. If we may die any moment, we may also be saved at any moment. So let us be prepared to seize the slightest opportunity."-Journey to the Center of the Earth
"You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it."-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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I'm not actually the troll it was some other guy!! haha.
Any kind of quote!! Movies, songs, people down the street...
Thanks
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