"Would you know how old you were, if you didn't know the day you were born?" — Toby Keith
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, final address to the nation, January 17 A.D. 1961
There is no creature that is, or can be, to us, in God's stead. God may be to us instead of any creature, as the sun instead of the moon and stars; but the moon and all the stars will not be to us instead of the sun. No creature's wisdom, power, and love, will be to us instead of God's. It is therefore our sin and folly to place any creature in God's stead, and to place that confidence in any creature which is to be placed in God only. — Bible commentator Matthew Henry
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercise for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive…[T]hose who torment us for our own good will torment us withoutend for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. — C.S. Lewis
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it. — Groucho Marx
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." — Steve Jobs
Heaven is not an amusement park on steroids. The Paradise of God, His eternal garden spot, is where His ever blooming glory is on display. The essence of the presently inconceivable bliss of Heaven's redeemed citizens consists in beholding His glory and ceaselessly worshiping and serving their Redeemer in perfect joy.
I don't understand how one can actually have an intellectual discourse in this country if you cannot have the opportunity to read thoughtful people with whom you disagree…the left, as a rule, does not want to hear thoughtful disagreement. — Dean Baquet, former Executive Editor of the New York Times
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might. — Henry David Thoreau
We're just here to be memories for our kids...once you are a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future — Movie 'Interstellar' (Cooper)
Gun control legislation has shown that law-abiding Americans who own guns are not the problem, because the more gun control laws that have been passed, the more mass shootings have occurred...97.8 percent of mass shootings occur in "gun-free zones,' as the perpetrators know legally armed citizens won't be there to stop them. — Epoch Times article by Joseph Mercola, June 16, 2022
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain
Optimism is a wish without warrant, Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come! — J.I. Packer
The higher you make yourself in your own mind the less you will be able to think clearly and the harder you will fall when troubles come. The higher the harder. — Russ Rock, in his novel 'Return of the Ancients'
You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out. — Unknown
The question of our origin is of supreme importance: it is the basis of our identity and destiny. The models with which we identify profoundly influence our behavior: the man who believes he came from a beast may be more inclined to behave like a beast. The image is not only degrading; it is dangerous. — William Fix
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. — C.S. Lewis
Pride month is a four week campaign from the corporate sector where we're all told to celebrate the sexual preferences of a small minority of the population at the risk of excommunication from polite society should we refuse. — Australia's Senator Alex Antic
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. — Mark Twain
Science was a thinking toolbox. It held a hammer of skepticism, a wrench of logic, and a screwdriver of reason. It was designed to help humans learn more about the natural laws governing our perceptible universe. You couldn't touch science. You couldn't see it. It's not tangible. You can't really put it in a toolbox, or a hot pocket, or anywhere else.
But like the Hulk, "science" evolved. It morphed, emerging after centuries from its intangible chrysalis of rational inquiry, revealed as something new, something tangible, something that had its own separate existence. It became Science with a capital 'S'. And Science was something to believe in, like Santa Clone or the Tooth Fauci. — Jeff Childers
Every scientific statement in the long run, however complicated it looks, really means something like, "I pointed the telescope to such and such a part of the sky at 2:20 A.M. on January 15th and saw so-and-so," or, "I put some of this stuff in a pot and heated it to such-and-such a temperature and it did so-and-so."
Do not think I am saying anything against science: I am only saying what its job is. And the more scientific a man is, the more (I believe) he would agree with me that this is the job of science — and a very useful and necessary job it is too. But why anything comes to be there at all, and whether there is anything behind the things science observes — something of a different kind — this is not a scientific question. If there is "Something Behind,' then either it will have to remain altogether unknown to men or else make itself known in some different way. — C.S. Lewis
God is The Father. He is the Great Patriarch. In other words, the headwaters of toxic masculinity. The War on Fathers and the War on God are twins, manifestations of the same crypto-war on overpopulation. — Jeff Childers
When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison. — Unknown
The Chevron doctrine was an extension of the Argument from Authority, the logical fallacy that increasingly plagues public discourse in America. The Argument from Authority supposes that one's position, or credentials, makes one's views more important and more likely to be correct than the views of lesser beings. My bachelor's degree in chemistry, for example, supposedly makes me less qualified to comment on issues involving the environment and climate change than a climatologist who recently received their doctorate. My 40 years of experience in atmospheric chemistry is thus of no consequence. — Epoch Times opinion piece by Richard Trzupek
Think of those gruesome scenes in east Palestine, Ohio, after the train crash that enveloped the town in a toxic chemical cloud. East Palestine is full of working-class people whom few of our establishment political leaders were willing to go visit.
The people of east Palestine form the demographic that died at twice the numbers of the general population in our overseas wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet few in our leadership class – many of whom had made one or more recent trips around the world to Ukraine to visit the Ukrainian people and pose for photos with Mr. Zelensky – went to East Palestine. — Victor Davis Hanson
There is no such thing as oblivion for the soul when it departs the body at the time of physical death; we do not cease to exist. Nor is the soul absorbed into an eternal one-ness or universal mind as conceived by various philosophies. At the consummation of all things in the Creator's time, there is either a reunion of the redeemed, self-conscious soul with its redeemed resurrection body unto the bliss of everlasting life, or a reunion of the impenitent, self-conscious soul with its resurrected body unto the misery of an everlasting death.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. — Bob Newhart
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. — Unknown
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. — Robert A. Heinlein
The remedy to be applied (to bad speech) is more speech, not enforced silence. — former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
The problem with science these days is that, if you cut science open, you'd find it riddled with parasitic politics and infected with virus-like strings attached to government money. There's almost no "science" left. The failing body of science is mostly just metastasized politics. — Jeff Childers
God has a way of tenderizing hearts in prayer. The child in all of us makes an appearance when we are on our knees. — Robert Elmer, editor, Grace from Heaven
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. — Unknown
In the novel 'Perelandra', the evil antagonist seeks to persuade the heroine that men are as they are depicted in much pop culture today...as "a huge, dim multitude of creatures pitifully childish and complacently arrogant; timid, meticulous, unoriginating; sluggish and ox-like, rooted to the earth almost in their indolence, prepared to try nothing, to risk nothing, to make no exertion, and capable of being raised into full life only by the unthanked and rebellious virtue of their females." — C.S. Lewis
Economics is ultimately a spiritual, ethical and theological matter. Your economics are based on your understanding of human nature. Capitalism is based on a realistic appraisal of human nature. Socialism is not. — G.M. Howell
When you live in culture war mode there is always a battle to fight, a side to take, and people to fear. When you live in God's Kingdom there's always a stranger to welcome, a neighbor to befriend, and an enemy to love. — Dan White Jr., Love Over Fear
The last scene of Dr. Faustus where the man raves and implores on the edge of Hell is, perhaps, stage fire. The last moments before damnation are not often so dramatic. Often the man knows with perfect clarity that some still possible action of his own will could yet save him. But he cannot make this knowledge real to himself. Some tiny habitual sensuality, some resentment too trivial to waste on a blue-bottle, the indulgence of some fatal lethargy, seems to him at that moment more important than the choice between total joy and total destruction. — C.S. Lewis
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. — John W. Gardner
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte
Darkness is the microscope of the imagination, and it magnifies a million times! — Garrett P. Serviss
Never miss a wonderful opportunity to remain quiet. — Unknown
Feelings which flourish on illusions, and sicken and die on realities, aren't worth considering. — David Lindsay, in his novel 'A Voyage to Arcturus'
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
Unlike the brain, the stomach alerts you when it is empty. — Unknown
The difference between my poor father and rich uncle was that my uncle gave his kids whatever they wanted while my father gave me everything I needed. My uncle bought his kids hundred dollar baseball gloves and told them go play. My dad bought me a $20 baseball glove and said "let's go play." — Nicole Margiotta, in her book 'How to Raise Successful Parents'
His advent: great event damnation to prevent!
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