Why is it that whenever I'm pulling an old 
newspaper apart to start a fire (or whatever)
I always see things I want to read; but when
I sit down to look at a newspaper I can't find
anything of the slightest interest? 



But in the end one needs more
courage to live than to kill himself.

-Albert Camus



I could gladly and profitably set
myself down and spend all the rest
of my life just with Calvin.

-Karl Barth



It's hard to be nostalgic when you
can't remember anything.



pablo picasso

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

-T. S. Eliot



It is well to lie fallow for awhile.

-Martin Tupper



raphael

Jesus Lord at thy birth.

-Silent Night





O come, let us adore him.

-Latin hymn



Invest ten minutes a day and read the entire
Bible in 2012.  Right now resolve, as a follower
of the Lord Jesus Christ, to be renewed in the spirit
of your mind by daily attending to that which is
breathed out by God and profitable for teaching,
for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, that the child of God may be
complete, equipped for every good work.

Click here to begin.




To shorten winter, borrow some
money due in spring.

-W. J. Vogel



There's no place like home.

-Dorothy Gale



A pleasure is full grown only
when it is remembered.

-C. S. Lewis

tomie depaola

Love all.  Trust a few. 
Do wrong to none.

-William Shakespeare



vincent van gogh

I believe in Christianity as I believe
that the sun has risen.  Not only
because I see it, but because by it
I see everything else.

-C. S. Lewis



The whole secret of life is to be
interested in one thing profoundly
and a thousand things well.

-Horace Walpole



I became a journalist partly so that i wouldn't
have to rely on the press for my information.

-Christopher Hitchens

henry siddons mowbray (1858-1928)

Wise men talk because they have
something to say; fools, because
they have to say something.

-Plato



Red is the color that
will make me blue.

-Beatles, Yes It Is

 giotto di bondone, 1304

This is the story of how we begin
to remember.

-Paul Simon, Under African Skies



You're never fully dressed without
a smile.

-Annie



Hither by thy help I'm come.

-Robert Robertson, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing



None can stay His hand
or say to Him, "what have
you done?"

-Daniel 4:35



Without your love I'd be nowhere
at all; I'd be lost, if not for you.

-George Harrison, If Not For You



I would so live as if I knew that I received
my being only for the benefit of others.

-Seneca



Even in winter an isolated patch of snow
has a special quality.

-Andy Goldsworthy



The greater man, the greater
courtesy.

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

william bouguereau

If men were angels, no government
would be necessary.

-James Madison



Cheer up! The worst is yet
to come.

-Philander Johnson



Clothe yourselves, all of you,
with humility towards one
another.

-1 Peter 5:5



Never miss a good chance to shut up.

-Will Rogers

mark rothko

It is better to fail in
originality than to
succeed in imitation.

-Herman Melville



"Be yourself" is about the worst
advice you can give to some people.

-Tom Masson



Drama is life with the dull bits
cut out.

-Alfred Hitchcock



I want to put a ding in the universe.

-Steve Jobs



A rich man is nothing but a poor
man with money.

-W. C. Fields



gustave dore

Sin entered the world through one
man, and death through sin, and in
this way death came to all people,
because all sinned.

-Romans 5:12



The public demands certainties,
but there are no certainties.

-H. L. Mencken



amedeo modigliani

Eloquence is a painting of
the thoughts.

-Blaise Pascal



My cooking is so bad my kids
thought Thanksgiving was to
commemorate Pearl Harbor.

-Phyllis Diller 



The more you explain it,
the more I don't understand it.

-Mark Twain



A good novel tells us the truth about
its hero.  A bad novel tells us the truth
about its author.

-G. K. Chesterton



She got her looks from her father. 
He's a plastic surgeon.

-Groucho Marx



Let us kneel before the Lord
our Maker.

-Psalm 95:6



Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.

-Woody Allen



The buck stops here.

-Harry S. Truman



Someday we'll look back at this moment
and plow into a parked car.

-Evan Davis



I don't paint things.  I only paint
the differences between things.

-Henri Matisse



Happiness is a very small desk
and a very big wastebasket.

-Robert Orben



I didn't get old on purpose, it just
happened.  If you're lucky, it could
happen to you.

-Andy Rooney



Simon Peter answered him,
"Lord, to whom shall we go? 
You have the words of eternal
life."

-John 6:68