Quote Archive


Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
--Mark Twain

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
--Fred Allen

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love I gain nothing Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
--1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13

God's work done God's way will never lack God's supplies.
--Unknown

Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
-- Thomas Fuller

The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
-- Anonymous

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
-- Clive Staples Lewis

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than sleeping in your garage makes you a car.
-- Garrison Keiler

A man with God is always in the Majority.
--John Knox

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.
--Saadi

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
--Soren Kierkegaard

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
--Dante Rossetti

It it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
--Mahatma Ghandi

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass.
--Senator Barry Goldwater, when asked what he thought of Jerry Falwell's suggestion that all good Christians should be against Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court

What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus
--John Ryman

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted,
the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved,
that man might know the joys of creation.
--Thomas S. Monson

A coincidence is a small miracle
in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
--unknown

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
--Stephen Levine

Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
At all the times you can
To all the people you can
As long as ever you can
--John Wesley 1703-1791

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
--Richard Leider

The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed or ever will be.
--Patrick Henry

Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.
--Leo Buscaglia

When asked why he never seemed discouraged or depressed over certain of his efforts in Congress to help bring about the official abolition of slavery, John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States replied: "Duty is ours; results are God's."
-- While he was a Congressman, in 1831, after his time as president.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-- John Stuart Mill

Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
--William Penn

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.  All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated through this book...All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
--Abraham Lincoln

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
--Louis L'Amour

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences; to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
--Leonard Hodgson

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the Sacred Scriptures.
-- Sir William Herschel

The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action
--Edward Bedore

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
--Emo Philips.

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
--William Hiram Foulkes

In the begining there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it."
--Dave Thomas.

As God once said, and I think rightly...
--Margaret Thatcher.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
--John Quincy Adams

One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense alone with Him. You cannot put Him off with speculations about your next door neighbors or memories of what you have read in books. What will all the chatter and hearsay count when the anesthetic fog which we call 'nature' or 'the real world' fades away and the Presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable, immediate, and unavoidable? - C. S. Lewis