Quotes

G.K. Chesterton

• “Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.”
• “I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.”                 
• “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
• “The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.” 
• “A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”
• “Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.”
• “I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.”
• “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. “

Bob Ingle

• “A crisis is a dangerous opportunity!”
• “Never confuse good with easy…the really good stuff is hard to do”
• “The truth is normally sufficient…say what you do and do what you say.”
• “Never drink down sream from the heard…you won’t get ahead by following the crowd.”
• “Don’t marry the girl you can live with, marry the girl you can’tlive without.”
• “FEAR – False Evidence Appearing Real… don’t buy a lie”
• “You will get by doing what everybody else does, you’ll succeedby doing what they won’t.”
• W=FD (Work equals force times distance) If you’re not getting closer to your goals it’s not working.”
• “You will never change until the pian of the same is greater than the pain of the same”

C.S. Lewis

• “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. “
• “A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. “
• “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. “
• “An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”
• “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. “
• “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. “
• “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. “
• “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. “
• “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. “
• “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. “
• “I gave in, and admitted that God was God. “
• “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. “
• “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. “
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
• “We are what we believe we are. “
• “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”
• “The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. “
• “The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. “
• “Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
• “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. “

 

Martin Luther

• Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
• Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
• Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
• Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
• Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
• Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
• Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
• First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
• For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
• Forgiveness is God’s command.
• Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
• If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
• If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
• If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.
• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
• Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
• Nothing good ever comes of violence.
• Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
• Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
• People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
• Pray, and let God worry.
• Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
• The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
• The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.
• There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
• To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
• Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
• When schools flourish, all flourishes.
• You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
• You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.