Post Your Favorite Quotes

[Dixie_Peach 1]

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

--Hebrews 11:1

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"Faith is the foundation, the root, the underlying substance of hope. If you have any hope, it comes from some faith in you. Hope, you may say, is a bud upon the plant of faith, a bud from the root of faith; the flower is joy and peace."

"I assert that faith is simply the greatest work that man can do. Taking it in its simplest, original development, it is the highest effort of the whole human intellect, imagination, will, in the highest direction. Never does the human nature put forth itself in such power, with such effort, with such energy as to have faith in God. I say it is the highest, and sometimes the most difficult, work that a man can do."

Excerpts taken from a preaching by George Macdonald - June 1882

[rclouse 0]

Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

~Dan Barker~

Although I am hardly a real religious person, I think this quote is a good counter-point:

"It's not about making sense. It's about believing in something, and letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about 'faith'.

You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you."

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

"In the midst of winter I found within me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus

"Hold on to the here, the now, through which all future plunges into the past" - James Joyce

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela

[one...two...tree 2,762]

A few great lines from Milton Berle...

“I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.”

"We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight."

“Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.”

“If it wasn't for the olives in his martinis, he'd starve to death!”

[Dixie_Peach 1]

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

[Nessa 23]

"Há sempre o seu quê de loucura no amor; mas também há sempre o seu quê de razão na loucura." - There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[Lizzy 0]

Dont die until your dead.

[Gatorfan 0]

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

[rclouse 0]

"Há sempre o seu quê de loucura no amor; mas também há sempre o seu quê de razão na loucura." - There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"My name is Dementia. It means 'madness'."

"My name is Fester. It means 'to rot'."

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

This one always cracks me up:

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde (to the customs officer at POE (I assume JFK))

and

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” - Oscar Wilde

[Sister Fracas 5]

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

Another Gandhi quote

"I think it would be a very good idea." In response to being asked what he thought of western civilization.

Edited June 23, 2006 by Elizabethnhenry

[tsunamihart 0]

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep..." Robert Frost

[maria_b84 0]

"They kill with their love"- John Coffey