Favorite Quotes

by brotherdan 43 Replies latest jw friends

  • PSacramento
    PSacramento

    These two always work well with me:

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

    ANd what is love?

    4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  • RosePetal
    RosePetal

    Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. Sir Arthur Helps [1813-1875]

  • SweetBabyCheezits
    SweetBabyCheezits

    “He who knows nothing, doubts nothing”

    "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
    - Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

    "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
    - Robert Orben

    “The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
    - Arthur Schopenhauer quotes (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)

    “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
    Thomas Paine

    “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
    Thomas Paine quote

    A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
    -- Mark Twain

  • SweetBabyCheezits
    SweetBabyCheezits

    Shelby, I like your quote. We agree on something!

  • AGuest
    AGuest

    And I like [all of] yours, as well, dear Tim (peace to you!)... particularly Mark Twain's!!

    Peace and back at 'cha!!

    A slave of Christ,

    SA

  • Twitch
    Twitch

    "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"

    Hunter S Thompson

  • Kinjiro
    Kinjiro

    Be careful on the toes you step on today because they may be attached to the ass that you need to kiss tomorrow.

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt

    "I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death." -- Patrick Henry

    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell

  • AuntBee
    AuntBee
    “Now observe that when that clever harlot, our natural reason (which the pagans followed in trying to be most clever), takes a look at married life, she turns up her nose and says, “Alas, must I rock the baby, wash its diapers, make its bed, smell its stench, stay up nights with it, take care of it when it cries, heal its rashes and sores, and on top of that care for my wife, provide for her, labour at my trade, take care of this and take care of that, do this and do that, endure this and endure that, and whatever else of bitterness and drudgery married life involves? What, should I make such a prisoner of myself? O you poor, wretched fellow, have you taken a wife? Fie, fie upon such wretchedness and bitterness! It is better to remain free and lead a peaceful, carefree life; I will become a priest or a nun and compel my children to do likewise.” What then does Christian faith say to this? It opens its eyes, looks upon all these insignificant, distasteful, and despised duties in the Spirit, and is aware that they are all adorned with divine approval as with the costliest gold and jewels. It says, “O God, because I am certain that thou hast created me as a man and hast from my body begotten this child, I also know for a certainty that it meets with thy perfect pleasure. bdI confess to thee that I am not worthy to rock the little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of the child and its mother. How is it that I, without any merit, have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? 0 how gladly will I do so, though the duties should be even more insignificant and despised. Neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labour, will distress or dissuade me, for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight. -- Martin Luther
  • VampireDCLXV
    VampireDCLXV

    "The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference." - Elie Wiesel

    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

    "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority." - Lord Acton

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Mark Twain

    "It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep." - Lord Byron

    "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same." - Jonathan Davis

    V665

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