"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

-- Edward Abbey

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

--Edward R. Murrow

"We usually think of the preacher and worship leaders as performers and the congregation as the audience. That’s a misnomer. In fact, the preacher, worship leaders and each person in the congregation are performers. God is the audience."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

When the Bible speaks of "following Jesus," it is proclaiming a discipleship which will liberate mankind from all man-made dogma, from every burden and oppression, from every anxiety and torture which afflicts the conscience. If they follow Jesus, men escape from the hard yoke of their own laws, and submit to the kindly yoke of Jesus Christ. But does this mean that we can ignore the seriousness of His command? Far from it! We can only achieve perfect liberty and enjoy fellowship with Jesus when His command, His call to absolute discipleship, is appreciated in its entirety.

Only the man who follows the command of Jesus without reserve, and submits unresistingly to His yoke, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard--unutterably hard--for those who try to resist it.

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

"Everything preaches."

-- Martin Luther

"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

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

- - Oscar Wilde

"Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."

-- Jaroslav Pelikan

"Ecce homo."

-- Pontius Pilate

“Remember this: Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”

-- William Sloane Coffin

"From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and I am in them and that is eternity."

-- Edvard Munch

"They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

-- John 20:14

"You are going to face death some day. You are going to face that last moment, barring Christ's return, where you are going to be terrified of sin, death, and the devil. And at that point you are either going to say, 'I have lived the victorious life' or you are going to say, 'Dearest Jesus, forgive me! I am a beggar and a sinner!' I would say you either say the latter, or you will not spend eternity with Him in heaven."

--Pastor Matt Harrison, LCMS World Relief

"In the hospitality of war, we left them their dead as a gift to remember us by."

-- Archilochos, 7th Century BC