I want to take my Scripture the way I take my
whiskey - straight.  But I know that I live in a
day when countless people are stumbled and
offended over the harsh and hard realities of
biblical teaching.

-Douglas Wilson



We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of
the dark.  The real tragedy of life is when men
are afraid of the light.

-Plato



Old is always fifteen years
from now.

-Bill Cosby



Take care of all your memories. 
For you cannot relive them.

-Bob Dylan 



For me it all boils down to the Central Mystery,
which is this: out of nothing came matter, out of
matter came life, and out of life came mind.

-Susan DeFraitas Timmons



Faith is what someone knows
to be true, whether they believe
it or not.

-Flannery O'Connor



Speeches are like babies -
easy to conceive but hard
to deliver.

-Pat O'Malley

gustave dore

Now as he went on his way, he
approached Damascus, and suddenly
a light from heaven flashed around him. 
And falling to the ground he heard a
voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why
are you persecuting me?"

-Acts 9: 3-4



All modern American literature
comes from one book by Mark
Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

-Ernest Hemingway



If evolution really works,
how come mothers only
have two hands?

-Milton Berle




Very few of us are what we seem.

-Agatha Christie



A smile is an inexpensive way
to improve your looks.

-Charles Gordy



There is only one happiness in
this life, to love and be loved.

-George Sand




Two men look out through the
same bars: one sees the mud,
and one the stars.

-Frederick Langbridge, 1896




The Lord gave, and the
Lord has taken away;
blessed be the name of
the Lord.

-Job 1:21



He is happiest, be he king or peasant,
who finds peace in his home.

-Goethe

mark rothko

Humble yourself under the mighty
hand of God, that he may lift you up
at the proper time, casting all your
anxieties on him, because he cares
for you.

-1 Peter 5:7



Regard it just as desirable to
build a chicken house as to build
a cathedral.

-Frank Lloyd Wright



Men are from earth, women
are from earth.  Deal with it.

-George Carlin



Quitting smoking is easy. 
I've done it hundreds of
times.

-Mark Twain



The early bird gets the worm, but
the second mouse gets the cheese.

-Stephen Wright



You perceive my
thoughts from afar.

-Psalm 139:2



I did not have three thousand
pairs of shoes. 
I had one thousand and sixty.

-Imelda Marcos



All gardening is
landscape painting.

-William Kent



Nobody knows why they do
what they do.

-Steve Jobs



A work of art is above
all an adventure of
the mind.

-Eugene Ionesco



Man is by nature good,
but his fellow man isn't.

-Toon Verhoeven



Death is unavoidable. Life can
pass you by.

-Theo Mestrum



As God did not at first choose you because
you were high, so he will not forsake you
because you are low.

-John Flavel



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Art is making something out of
nothing and selling it.

-Frank Zappa