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.
It is the triumph of reason
to get along well
with those who possess none.
Surround yourself with the
best people you can find,
delegate authority,
and don't interfere.
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS YOU CAN KEEP
Are you sick of making the same resolutions year after year that you never keep? Why not promise to do something you can actually accomplish? Here are some resolutions that you can use as a starting point: Gain weight. At least 30 pounds. Stop exercising. Waste of time. Read less. Makes you think. Watch more TV. I've been missing some good stuff. Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow. Spend more time at work, surfing with the T1. Take a vacation to someplace important, like to see the world's largest ball of twine. Don't jump off a cliff just because everyone else did. Stop bringing lunch from home--eat out more. Don't have eight children at once. Get in a whole NEW rut! Start being superstitious. Personal goal: Don't bring back disco. Don't box with Mike Tyson. Buy an '83 Eldorado and invest in a really loud stereo system. Get the windows tinted. Buy some fur for the dash. Speak in a monotone voice and only use monosyllabic words. Only wear jeans that are 2 sizes too small and use a chain or rope for a belt. Spend my summer vacation in cyberspace. Don't eat cloned meat. Create loose ends. Get more toys. Get further in debt. Don't believe politicians. Break at least one traffic law. Don't drive a motorized vehicle across thin ice. Don't swim with piranhas or sharks. Associate with even worse business clients. Spread out priorities beyond the ability to keep track of them. Wait for opportunity to knock. Focus on the faults of others. Mope about faults. Never make New Year's resolutions again.
If lawyers are disbarred
and clergymen defrocked,
doesn't it follow that. . .
electricians could be delighted,
musicians denoted,
cowboys deranged,
models deposed,
and dry cleaners depressed?
Wouldn't you expect laundry workers to decrease,
eventually becoming depressed and depleted?
Likewise, bedmakers might be debunked,
baseball players debased,
bulldozer operators degraded,
organ donors delivered,
software engineers detested, and
underwear manufacturers debriefed.
And won't all composers one day decompose?
On a more positive note, perhaps we can hope politicians will someday be devoted.
Our greatness and wretchedness are so evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us that there is in us some great principle of greatness and some great principle of wretchedness. It must also account for such amazing contradictions.
To make us happy it must show us that a God exists whom we are bound to love; that our only true bliss is to be in him, and our sole ill to be cut off from him. It must acknowledge that we are full of darkness which prevents us from knowing him, and so, with our duty obliging us to love God and our sin leading us astray, we are fully unrighteous.
It must account to us for the way in which we thus go against God and our own good. It must teach us the cure for our helplessness and the means for obtaining the cure.