A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packed web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving… Continue reading Quoted: Dresden James on Truth
Category: Quotes
Words of wisdom, philosophy, encouragement and humor from various sources.
Quoted: Scott Phillips on Working for God
Too many people are part timing God. Don’t you know, part time employment does not come with benefits or retirement? If you part time God, you will be full time in hell.
Quoted: Edward Hindson on the Messiah
The Messiah did not come as a conquering hero, but as a wounded lamb. He did not come to destroy the enemies of Israel, but to live His enemies into submission to His kingdom. He did not come to condemn the world, but to save the world.
Quoted: William Arthur Ward on Teachers
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Quoted: John Locke on the Bible
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.- It is all pure.
Quoted: Francis Bacon on Philosophy
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Quoted: Ralph W. Sockman on True Humility
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Quoted: George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon on God’s Delays
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Quoted: Oscar Wilde on Experiences
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Quoted: François de la Rochefoucauld on Inspection
He is a truly good man who desires always to bear the inspection of good men.