These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
After taking the test and failing it three times, I thought to myself, "Maybe I'm not meant to be an I.Q."
"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the
leather straps."
id: 819 | source: Emo Phillips | tags: Despair, Discouragement, Humor
Thomas Aquinas, too, apparently could not raise himself above his times. In the Summa Theologica he poses the question of whether heretics can be endured, tolerated. And his answer is that heretics can not be tolerated. If it was just to condemn counterfeiters to death, then surely it was necessary to put to death those who had committed the far worse crime of counterfeiting the faith...
The moral blindness, in certain respects, of even the holiest people should never be cause for surprise...
It's a sign of maturity not to be scandalized.
id: 2705 | source: Flannery O'Connor | tags: Apologetics, History
China has a population of a billion people. One billion. That means even if you’re a one in a million kind of guy, there are still a thousand others exactly like you.
The Anvil
Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith's door
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime:
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
"How many anvils have you had," said I,
"To wear and batter all these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then, with twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."
And so, thought I, the anvil of God's word,
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The anvil is unharmed . . . the hammer's gone.
id: 2838 | source: Author unknown | tags: Bible, Skepticism