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Archive of Quotes
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Talking
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"You couldn't keep a conversation
going. Everybody was talking too much."
-- Yogi Berra --
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Taxes
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"The hardest thing in the world to
understand, is the income tax."
--Albert Einstein--
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Teach
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"Quite frankly, teachers are the only
profession that teaches our children."
-- Dan Quayle --
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Teachable
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"Some people will never learn anything...because
they understand everything too soon."
Alexander Pope
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Television
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"Television--a medium, so called because
it is neither rare nor well done."
--Ernie Kovacs--
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"More theology is conveyed in, and
probably retained from, one hour of popular television than from all the
sermons that are also delivered on any given weekend in America's synogogues,
churches,and mosques."
(Phyllis A Tickle, God Talk in America)
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Temptation
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"I can fight anything, but temptation."
Oscar Wilde
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Testimony
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"A man ought to live so that everybody
knows he is a Christian...and most of all, his family ought to know."
--D.L. Moody--
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Theory vs. Practice
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"In theory, there is no difference
between theory and practice; in practice, there is." --Chuck Reid--
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Things
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"Things are more like they are now
than they've ever been." -- Gerald Ford --
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Thinking
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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it
starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until
you get to the office."
--Robert Frost--
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"What a waste it is to lose one's
mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is."
--Dan Quayle--
(addressing the United Negro College Fund
and trying to remember their slogan, "a mind is a terrible thing to waste".)
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"Nurture great thoughts, for you will never
go higher than your thoughts."
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"Where success is concerned, people are
not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background;
they are measured by the size of their thinking."
--David Schwartz-- |
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Time
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"Punctuality is the thief of time"
--Oscar Wilde--
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"Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of
my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain
my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me
now."
-- Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart
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Time Warp
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| "For most people there is a major disconnection
between their day-to-day lives and the fifty-year time warp they enter
when they walk through the front doors of the church." Ron Mortoia,
Morph!,
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Is the church speaking a foreign language
or the language of the times?
Ron Mortoia, Morph, 17. |
"Our congregations change more slowly than
we know they should. We want them to become what we see for them, and all
too often they want to preserve who they've been. The battle over relevance
and worldliness is often really more about time. How in the world can you
move together in unity when you can't even agree upon the era in which
you're living? Often spiritual leadership is calling God's people to relinquish
the past and move into what God's already doing!"
Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force,
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Timing
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"The difference in a home run and
a long foul ball is timing."
Dan Southerland, Transitioning,
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Toleration
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"Toleration is often just Indifference
in disguise."
-- Frederick Buechner, WIshful Thinking
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The Tongue
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"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds
demand."
--Anon.--
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Tragedy
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"The tragedy of life is what dies inside
a man while he lives."
--Albert Schweitzer--
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Transformation
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"Nothing so transforms the spirt of
a man as communion with God doth. Those are most like unto God that
converse most frequently with him
-- John Flavel --
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Trials
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"It's a great comfort to know that
God's faithful people have always been in trouble. In fact it's the sure
sign we're following God, and not men."
--Lloyd Ogilvie--
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"Hope
knows that if great trials are avoided, great deeds remain undone and
the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted."
-Brennan Manning-
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"Each of us may be sure that if God
sends us over rocky paths, He will provide us with sturdy shoes.
He will never send us on any journey without equipping us well."
--Alexander MacLaren --
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"It doesn't matter, really, how great
the pressure is; it only matters where the pressure lies. See that it never
comes between you and the Lord--then the greater the pressure, the more
it presses you to His breast."
--Hudson Taylor--
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"...when God wants to bring more power
into our lives, He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual
force by friction."
-- A.B. Simpson, Days
of Heaven on Earth, Mar. 3 --
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"The circumstances of life, the events
of life, and the people around me in life, do not make me what I am, but
reveal what I am."
--Anne Alexander--
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"God never gives strength for tomorrow,
or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute."
Oswald Chambers (My Utmost, Aug.
2)
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"The saint is hilarious when he is
crushed with difficulties because the thing is ludicrously impossible to
anyone but God."
--Oswald Chambers (My Utmost, Aug.
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"As sure as God puts his children
in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them."
-- Charles H. Spurgeon --
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Trust
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"God is too good to be unkind. He
is too wise to be confused. If I cannot trace His hand, I can always trust
His heart."
--C.H. Spurgeon--
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"Trust is one of the sublimest forms
of adoration."
-- C.H. Spurgeon --
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It is much easier to do something
than to trust in God, we mistake panic for inspiration. That is why
there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him.
We would rather work for God than believe in Him."
-- Oswald Chambers, (My Utmost, June 1)
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Truth
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"Men occasionally stumble over the
truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing
had happened."
--Winston Churchill--
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"Our concern with truth is an inevitable
expression of our concern with God. If God exists, then he is the
measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure
of what we should think. Not to care about truth is not to care about
God. To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.
Being God-centered in life means being truth-driven in ministry.
What is not true is not of God. What is false is anti-God.
Indifference to the truth is indifference to the mind of God. Pretense
is rebellion against reality, and what makes reality is God. Our
concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God."
-- John Piper, A Godward Life, 106
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Truth (Telling the)
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"I don't want any yes-men around me.
I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."
--Samuel Goldwyn--
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Turn Around
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"We're going to turn this team around 360
degrees."
--Jason Kidd--
upon being drafted into the NBA
(quoted in Thinking for a Change,
John Maxwell)
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Twentieth Century Man
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"Modern man has both feet planted
firmly in mid-air." Francis Schaeffer
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"Why does man feel so sad in the twentieth
century? Why does man feel so bad in the very age when, more than in any
other age, he has succeeded in satisfying his needs and making the world
over for his own use?"
-- Walker Percy --
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