"The concept of substitution may be said, then, to lie at the heart of both sin and salvation.  For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man."

 –– John R.W. Stott

"Lord help the fish below."

--Sam Houston, upon being congratulated that baptism had just washed away his sins, 1854

"Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by their use."

-- Ivan Illich

"The truth is more important than the facts."

  

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
 
-- James Thurber

"There's a time for joking around and a time to be serious; this is not one of them."   

--Anonymous

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

-- G.K. Chesterton

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

-- Thomas Jefferson