Favorite Quotes

[GreatLakesGramma]

I was reading through my quotes journal this afternoon, & decided to share my quotes with you all, one at a time. Feel free to add your own favorites.

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." - W.T. Purkiser, preacher & writer

[GreatLakesGramma]

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison

[Guest]

That's a goodern.

[GreatLakesGramma]

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. - Don Carter, pro bowler

[Misty Rose]

I wanted to put this as my siggy, but it had too many letters:

Professionalism is more attitude than ability - M. Luttrell

[GreatLakesGramma]

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. - Thomas Gray

[GreatLakesGramma]

A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. - Hannah More

[GreatLakesGramma]

Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

[karl]

Idealism is what precedes experience.

-David T. Wolf

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

-Thomas Edison

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

-Eugene McCarthy

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

-Howard Ruff

Children today are tyrants. They contradict thier parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

-Socrates

Never mistake motion for action.

-Ernest Hemmingway

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

-Abraham Lincoln

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

-Napolean Bonaparte

[olger]

"Starlings are over-sized flies."

"Unity in error is the rope between the drowning man and the boulder."

[phkrause]

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

-Napolean Bonaparte

He would know.

pk

[GreatLakesGramma]

To reply to a nasty remark with another nasty remark is like trying to remove dirt with mud. - Anonymous

[GreatLakesGramma]

Our lives have become so antiseptic that we honestly believe that we've suffered adversity if our Reebok shoes pinch our toes, if our car is in the shop and we must take the bus, or if we find a bug in our wtaer glass. Meanwhile, much of the world's population can't afford shoes, travel only where they can get by foot, and often die for lack of food and water. - S. Richly Christian

[olger]

A-MEN !!

"I have a right to not have any hardship or trials."

[Woody]

A man has the right to look down upon another man only when he is helping him up.

[Guest]

I reckon so...

[GreatLakesGramma]

Resentment is such a dangerous thing. It's like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Wayne Cordeiro

[GreatLakesGramma]

Religion without guilt just tries to make God a big "pal" of man. - A.W. Tozer

[GreatLakesGramma]

You can tell whether you are becoming a servant by how you act when people treat you like one. - Gordon MacDonald

[GreatLakesGramma]

In my experience, it is not theology itself that causes confusion, mistrust, difficulty, and hurt in churches. It is the attitude of spiritual arrogance that accompanies it that deeply disturbs me. - John Sullivan

[GreatLakesGramma]

God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. - Dwight L. Moody

[GreatLakesGramma]

The essential vice, the utmost evil, is pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison. It was through pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every other vice; it is the complete anti-God state of mind. C.S. Lewis

[GreatLakesGramma]

You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is you get fat. - Julian Barnes

[GreatLakesGramma]

Most ordinary situations can be experienced as deliciously pleasurable, or as bitterly disappointing. It depends on how you evaluate them. The more you are enslaved by your desires, the more likely you are to find any given situation disappointing. - Timothy Ray Miller

[Overaged]

We grieve the Spirit of Christ by our complaints and murmurings and repinings. We should not dishonor God by the mournful relation of trials that appear grievous. All trials that are received as educators will produce joy. The whole religious life will be uplifting, elevating, ennobling, fragrant with good words and works. {AG 325.5}