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“Sometimes when we’re waiting for God to speak, He’s waiting for us to listen.”

The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

Definition of courage: ‘Grace under pressure’

We hurt people by being too busy.  Too busy to notice their needs.  Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love.  Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk.  Too busy to care.

Billy Graham

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

To avoid trouble, breathe through your nose. It keeps your mouth shut.

“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”

“Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.” Thomas Brooks

An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

“Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.”

Let Him make our lives narrow; let Him make them intense; let Him make them absolutely His!

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” Blaise Pascal

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Our faults are like a grain of sand beside the great mountain of the mercies of God.

“Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.” ~Andrew Murray

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

“Speech any man may attain to, but “act” is difficult.”

Charles H. Spurgeon

“Forgiveness doesn’t make the other person right, it makes you free.” Stormie Omartian

“Reports are sketchy, but we have heard that in the first heart transplant operation in Belgium, both patient and donor are doing fine.”

Radio news announcer

“Sure, it’s going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.”

Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

“A ‘No Parking’ sign at a certain location means…”

multiple choice question on NY State learner’s permit test

I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

Al McGuire

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”

Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

“Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansel. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.”

Murray Walker, Sportscaster

“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”

Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull’s team chemistry being overrated.

“Mando Machinery Corporation is the undisputed leader in Korea automotive pants industry.”

Press Release from Korean firm

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction…

Pierre Pachet, 1872

“In a sense it’s a one-man show… except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.”

John Motson, BBC1

You read what Disraeli had to say. I don’t remember what he said. He said something. He’s no longer with us.

Bob Dole

“Man Breaks Leg In Fall Off Bride.”

St. Louis Dispatch Headline (should have read “bridge.”)

I have opinions of my own — strong opinions — but I don’t always agree with them.

President George Bush

They misunderestimated me…

George W Bush

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

“Man shots neighbor with machete.”

Miami Herald, headline

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

Dick Cavett

“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”

Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony