Best Quotes Archive
2009
January / February
“God is not going to tell you what He is going to do; he reveals to you Who He is.”
Oswald Chambers
March
“Until it is demonstrated, one forgets the really great difference between the merely competent amateur and the very expert professional.”
Linus van Pelt, in “Peanuts” by Charles Shulz
April
Dialog from the movie Elmer Gantry, between hypocritical evangelist Gantry and agnostic reporter Jim Lefferts. Following Gantry’s public humiliation, he accepts a swig from a liquor flask offered by Lefferts.
EG: “There oughta be a law against drinkin’ this stuff.”
JL: “There is--Prohibition.”
EG: “Ah, that’s a law against sellin’ it, not drinkin’ it.”
May / June
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
Charles Hadden Spurgeon
2008
January
“Those who forget the future are condemned to live it.”
from the comic strip “Over the Hedge” by Fry & Lewis, 12/30/07
February
For it is love’s glory to be given freely to the Beloved,
And freely returned to the Lover.
from “Saviour: A Narrative Accompaniment” by Garry D. Nation
March
“It may be in the present conflict that the purpose of the Almighty is altogether different from that of either party.”
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
April
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
Steven Wright
May
“Philosophers think not that they have reasoned skillfully enough about inferior causes unless they separate God very far from his works.”
John Calvin on “Natural Causes”
November
“My religious faith teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to always be ready, no matter when it may overtake me.”
Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
December
O Thou, Whose glorious yet contracted light,
Wrapt in Night’s mantle, stole into a manger,
Since my dark soul and brutish, is thy right,
To man, of all beasts, be not Thou a stranger:
Furnish and deck my soul, that Thou mayst have
A better lodging than a rack or grave.
George Herbert, “Christmas”
