Quotables


"The wonderful thing about Jesus is that he not only meets us at church occasionally, but that he always goes home with us."
-Thomas Lane Butts

"Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see."
-William Newton Clarke

"The modern world was about the dreams and promises of science, rationality, progress, and technology; about the hope that human spirit and brainpower could solve all of the problems of humankind and usher in a new era of peace, health and prosperity. These dreams died in the wake of two world wars, countless local and ethnic conflicts, the social upheaval of the sixties, a failed war on poverty, and the relational disconnection of the Woodstock generation of Baby Boomers."
-Todd Hahn, "Reckless Hope"

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
-Mark Twain

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
-Blaise Pascal

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only onesamong you who will really be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."-Albert Schweitzer"The toughest task is to live with unexpected, unwanted answers."
-William Willimon

"Faith is not something to grasp; it is a state to grow into."
-Mohandas Gandhi

"It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside."
- Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) In Memoriam

"Don't be a proof texter; be a truth tester. Don't take the Bible apart; take it wholly to your heart."
-Kimball Coburn

"Love has brought a great many people to safety when competency was exhausted."
-Garrison Keillor

"The great spiritual question of the 20th century is, 'To what can I surrender?'"
-Anonymous

"The wonderful thing about Jesus is that he not only meets us at church occasionally, but that he always goes home with us."
-Thomas Lane Butts

"Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see."
-William Newton Clarke

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
-Mother Theresa of Calcutta

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not snap.”
-Unknown


Updated Oct 2011

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