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Archive of Quotes
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MALICE
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"Never attribute to malice what can
be adequately explained by stupidity."
--Nick Diamos--
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MATERIALISM
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"There are two ways to get enough:
one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire
less."
--G.K. Chesterton--
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"Wise are those who learn that the
bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority."
--William Arthur Ward--
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"Just a little bit more."
John D. Rockefeller
(When asked: How much money would it take
to be really satisified?)
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"To Americans usually tragedy is wanting
something very badly and not getting it. Many people have had to
learn in their private lives, and nations have had to learn in the historical
experience, that perhaps the worst form of tragedy is wanting something
badly, getting it, and finding it empty."
-- Henry Kissinger --
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MEDIOCRITY
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"I have never met a Christian who
sat down and planned to live a mediocre life." --Howard Hendricks--
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MEN AND WOMEN
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"The streets of our cities and the
pews of our churches are crowded these days with emaciated men and plastic
women....I want to keep company with the men and women who expand and deepen
our capacity to live our true, God-created, Jesus-saved, Spirit-filled
lives."
-- Eugene Peterson, Leap Over a Wall,
10. --
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MIND (A Terrible Thing
to Waste)
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"It is a fundamental principle with
us that to renounce reason is to renounce religion, that religion and reason
go hand in hand, that all irrational religion is false religion." --John
Wesley--
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MINISTRY
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"God made us and God is able to empower
us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's
work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride."
--Warren Wiersbe--
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MISSIONS
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"For years the bulk of American Christians
who were committed to 'missions' could only participate through giving
and praying. Today the call to crosscultural ministry doesn't even require
going; it just requires staying with a purpose."
Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force,
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MISTAKES
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"I haven't been wrong since 1961,
when I thought I made a mistake."
--Bob Hudson--
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MODESTY
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"Modesty is my best quality" -- Jack
Benny --
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"I thought I was wrong once but I
was mistaken" -- Lee Iacocca --
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MONEY
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"That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, 'Goodbye.'"
-- Richard Armour --
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"Live within your income, even if
you have to borrow money to do so."
--Josh Billings --
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MOTIVATION
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"Even if you are on the right track,
you will get run over if you just sit there."
--Will Rogers--
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"Fear not that your life shall come
to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Newman--
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"Everyone who's ever taken a shower
has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and
does something about it who makes a difference."
--Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari)--
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"There is an eagle in me that wants
to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the
mud."
-- Carl Sandburg --
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Music (Contemporary)
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"All worship services are contemporary,
but most are contemporary to some other culture or generation."
-- George Hunter --
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