"The excellent is new forever."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice"

-- Bill Cosby

"But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative:
he must leave the ship and come to Him. In the end, the first
step of obedience proves to be an act of faith in the word of Christ.

But we should completely misunderstand the nature of grace
if we were to suppose that here was no need to take the first-step,
because faith was already there.

Against that, we must boldly assert that the step of obedience
must be taken before faith can be possible. Unless he obeys,
a man cannot believe."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The only people who can understand the importance of Evangelism are those who have been evangelized themselves. They have a before and an after, and they know the difference. They also know who caused the difference."

-- P. Michael Summer

“It’s impossible to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.”

--Upton Sinclair

"Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen."

("Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.")

-- Heinrich Heine, from his play Almansor (1821)

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

-- George Orwell