Doubt vs. Faith Doubt sees the obstacles. Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step. Faith soars on high. Doubt questions,'Who believes' Faith answers,'I'.
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If Today If you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been well spent.
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The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Robertson Davies
there will always be pressures and time sin your life when you'll need answers, but coke and the rest offer nothing -- no outlet, no information. And, believe me, you're only as good as your information.
Bob Seger
"9W" Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner?
Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show
"A penny for your thoughts?" "A dollar for your death."
Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
"Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex.
Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
"Careful with fire" is good advice we know. "Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
"Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell?
Dorothy Parker
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Aleister Crowley
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
"He means well" is useless unless he does well.
Plautus
"Hello," he lied.
Don Carpenter quoting a Hollywood agent
"Home is where you wear your hat.
Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. Milne
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Four
"Human reason is by nature architectonic."
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details
Albert Einstein
"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.
Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
"If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato."
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128
"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison." "If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!
Lady Astor and William Churchill
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
"It happens to each according to his consciousness," is the Law of Consciousness.
L. S. Barksdale