"So it may be said that the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks." -J.R.R. Tolkien -- "Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him." -Haldir, "The Fellowship of the Ring," J.R.R. Tolkien -- "I always got by with my Hidee Hi... I thought that Bop wouldn't last but a little while. Til I met a chick who thought that Bop was slick - so I tried to change my style." -Cab Calloway -- "If you act like that bee acts... nuh uh, you're workin to hard. And don't spend your time lookin around for something you want that can't be found. When you find out you can live without it then go along not thinking about it." -The Jungle Book -- "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." -John Jay, 1st Justice of the Supreme Court, October 12, 1816 -- "There is no more common enemy of true manhood than the diversion or the perversion of our sexual capacities." -Jack Hayford -- "My father is a bastard, my ma's an S.O.B., my grandpa's always plastered, my grandma pushes tea. My sister wears a mustache, my brother wears a dress. Goodness, gracious, that's why I'm a mess!" -West Side Story -- "This is the fate of those who trust in themselves... they are destined for the grave, and death will feed on them." -Psalm 49:13-14 -- "I just know that she warms my heart, and knows what all my imperfections are. And she said that I was the brightest little firefly in her jar." -Copeland -- "But we got the All-Wide Science Fair just around the corner... So far alls I've come up with is the effects of gasoline on fire." -Strong Bad -- "It's not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting, its that it has been found difficult and left untried." -G.K. Chesterton -- "I'm a Mog. Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend." -Barf, "Spaceballs" -- "We were short on cash. It seems not doing anything didn't pay very well." -The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, "Veggie Tales" -- "Time is but an abstract concept created by carbon based life forms to gauge their ongoing decay." -Mr. Thundercleese, "The Brak Show" -- "Time's fun when you're having flies." -Kermit the Frog -- "What do I do when it seems I'm related to Judas more than you?" -Poor Old Lu -- "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "What kind of freak then is man? How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuge of the universe!" -Pascal -- "Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." -Winnie the Pooh -- "There are two ways to get enough: one is to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." -Chesterton -- "Plentitude is American culture's perverse burden. Most Americans have everything they could possibly want, and they still don't think it's nearly enough." -Kalle Lasn, "Culture Jam" -- "For all our offerings, whether of music or martyrdom, are like the intrinsically worthless present of a child, which a father values indeed, but values only for the intention." -C. S. Lewis, "On Church Music" -- "I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun, not just because I see it, but because by it I can see everything else." -C.S. Lewis -- "'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'" -C.S. Lewis, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" -- "All that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." -C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity" -- "And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger." -C.S. Lewis, "The Last Battle" -- "Believe in God and you will have to face hours when it seems obvious that this material world is the only reality; disbelieve in Him and you must face hours when this material world seems to shout at you that it is not all." -C. S. Lewis -- "And men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors, and smells. Times come when troughs, not tables, suit our appetites. Hear a man too loudly praising others, and look to wonder if he didn't just get up from the sty. On the other hand, that unhappy, pale, put-upon man walking by, who looks all guilt and sin, why, often that's your good man with a capital G, Will. For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it and sometimes break in two." -Ray Bradbury, "Something Wicked This Way Comes" -- "Memento mori" -Popular Latin phrase meaning "Remember that you will die." -- "This great evil - Where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might have known?" -Thin Red Line -- "One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies." -Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" -- "Four things come not back: The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity." -Proverb -- "Do or do not, there is no try." -Yoda -- "We are spirits in the material world." -The Police -- "Mama said wisely, 'A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.'" -John Steinbeck, "Flight" -- "The less I have, the more I gain." -Metallica, "Wherever I May Roam" -- "I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him." -Jesus -- "Why can't I let go of only the shell of a man? I'm lost in myself and afraid of who I really am." -The Juliana Theory -- "Home, home again. I like to be here when I can." -Pink Floyd -- "Prison could be a nice place to live - the bars on the window like bars on a crib. Freedom is the least desired gift to give." -Poor Old Lu, "Speak Soft" -- "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." -Bill Clinton -- "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." -Proverbs 31:30 -- "'Tis farre more conquest with one to live true
Then every houre to triumph Lord of new."

-Thomas Campion, "Thou joy'st, fond boy, to be by many loved", 1617 -- The Harvester is near
His blade is on your skin
To plant a new beginning
Well then let the cut begin
Let the cut begin

-Sixpence None the Richer, "Love" -- "Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print." -Charlotte's Web -- "Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isnt going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?" -Calvin & Hobbes -- "I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it's great to be male!" -Calvin & Hobbes -- "Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what." -Calvin & Hobbes -- Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people!
Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. -- "The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year." -The New Yorker -- "There are so many things I do not remember, but I know two things very well - I am a great sinner, and Christ is a great savior." -John Newton, "Amazing Grace" -- I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you do not have one you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell you, it feels phenomenal! -Dodge Ball -- "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -Decca Recording Company, on rejecting the Beatles in 1962 -- "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." -James 4:14b -- "The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." -Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952) -- "Patience is the companion of wisdom." -Saint Augustine -- "Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation." -Saint Augustine, On the Good of Marriage, c. 401 AD -- "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers." -William Penn (1644 - 1718) -- "If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants." -William Penn (1644 - 1718) -- "A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it." -William Penn (1644 - 1718) -- "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." -Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996) -- "A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman." -American Proverb -- "The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all." -G. K. Chesterton -- "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." -G. K. Chesterton -- "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -G. K. Chesterton -- "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about." -G. K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy" -- Deus semper major (God is always bigger) -- "I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had." -Tears for Fears, "Mad World" -- "Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal." -Winston Churchill -- "Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable." -C.S. Lewis, "A Grief Observed" -- "Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?" -C.S. Lewis, "A Grief Observed" -- "A wife of noble character is her husband's crown" -Proverbs 12:4 -- "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible." -George Washington -- "Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education." -Benjamin Rush, 1787 -- "It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author." -Thomas Paine -- "Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they threaten, the rewards they promise, the stamp and image of divinity they bear, which produces a conviction of their truths, can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience." -James McHenry, Signer of the Constitution -- "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We've staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity... to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." -James Madison, 1778 -- "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever." -Thomas Jefferson -- "The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed." -Patrick Henry -- "It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." -Patrick Henry, 1765 -- "I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man." -Alexander Hamilton -- "God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel." -Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention of 1787 -- "Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system." -Samuel Adams, 1790 -- "I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen." -John Adams, 1813 letter to Jefferson -- "Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be." -John Adams -- "It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." -Patrick Henry -- "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." -Thomas Jefferson -- "I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands." -Thomas Jefferson -- "No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson -- "My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small." -John Wesley (1703-1791) -- "In necessariis unitas, in nonnecessariis libertas, in omnibus caritas." -- "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein -- "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." -C.S. Lewis -- "Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable." -G.K. Chesterton -- "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." -C.S. Lewis -- "The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us." -C.S. Lewis -- "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself." -C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity) -- "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond." -C.S. Lewis -- "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." -C.S. Lewis -- "God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing." -C.S. Lewis -- "I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity." -C.S. Lewis -- "It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." -C.S. Lewis -- "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." -C.S. Lewis -- "Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger." -C.S. Lewis -- "If the American people ever allow private banks to control their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson -- "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain -- "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." -Saint Augustine -- "My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason." -Norman Cousins -- "With authority comes the need for accountability. With popularity comes the need for humility. With prosperity comes the need for integrity." -Charles R. Swindoll -- "Hear me, O God!
A broken heart,
Is my best part:
Use still thy rod,
That I may prove
Therein, thy Love.

If thou hadst not
Beene stern to mee.
But left me free.
I had forgot
My selfe and thee."

-Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -- "I'm a Sunday School teacher, and I've always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself - a very high and perfect standard." -Jimmy Carter -- "The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved." -Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." -Theodore Roosevelt -- "We sit outside and argue all night long
About a god we've never seen
But never fails to side with me"

-Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Pocket" -- "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within." -Will Durant (1885 - 1991) -- "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." -Frederich Nietzsche -- "Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood." -Frederich Nietzsche -- "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." -Frederich Nietzsche -- "Condemnation without investigation is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein -- "Science can tell us how to do many things, but it can not tell us what ought to be done." -Anonymous -- "If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are." -J.M.L. Monsabre -- "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions." -G.K. Chesterton -- "Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." -G.K. Chesterton -- "There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan." -C.S. Lewis -- "For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything." -G.K. Chesterton -- "Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe." -Peter Kreeft -- "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness." -Martin Luther -- "Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian." -D.L. Moody -- "If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert -- "Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." -G.K. Chesterton -- "If there were no God, there would be no atheists." -G.K. Chesterton -- "It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything." -G.K. Chesterton -- "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?" -Captain Jack Sparrow -- "Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman." -Ludwig van Beethoven -- "All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it." -Jean Cocteau -- "In music the passions enjoy themselves." -Friedrich Nietzsche -- "There are a thousand things that try to turn my head. And my blinking eyes are easily led." -Poor Old Lu -- "There are two ways of saying no to someone you believe to be stronger than yourself. The first is to say nothing and go on merely doing what you were doing before, and pretend that you never heard, allow time and inertia to be your allies. And the second? And the second is to say no in such a kind and thoughtful way it befuddles them. Naturally, if both these strategies fail, there is nothing but to relent. Or to fight. And of course, if you decide to fight, you also have to decide to win." -Luther -- "As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy." -Christopher Dawson -- "The speed of communication is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." -Edward Murrow -- "Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: To know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do." -Thomas Aquinas -- "The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out." -Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it." -Niccolo Machiavelli -- "Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?" -Pope Julius III -- "The atheist can’t find God for the same reason that a thief can’t find a policeman." -Unknown -- "Absent an absolute moral authority independent of fallible humans, the only meaning 'wrong' could have (pertaining to conduct) would be 'in opposition to x,' or 'falling short of x's standards,' which are only persuasive to those who have already accepted x." -Calvin Freiburger -- "My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?" -CS Lewis, "Mere Christianity" -- "Science can tell us how to do many things, but it can not tell us what ought to be done." -Unknown -- "I think it's a gift from God that I play the guitar." -Joe Pass, 1992 -- "I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?" -J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories (1939) -- "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution." -Samuel Johnson, 1750 -- "Every man may grow rich by contracting his wishes, and by quiet acquiescence in what has been given him, supply the absence of more." -Samuel Johnson, 1753 -- "There is in the world more poverty than is generally imagined; not only because many whose possessions are large have desires still larger, and many measure their wants by the gratifications which others enjoy: but great numbers are pressed by real necessities which it is their chief ambition to conceal, and are forced to purchase the appearance of competence and cheerfulness at the expense of many comforts and conveniencies of life." -Samuel Johnson, 1753 -- "It is enough if we have stated seasons of prayer; no matter when. A man may as well pray when he mounts his horse, or a woman when she milks her cow, as at meals..." -Samuel Johnson -- When cold winds range my winter-night, Be thou my summer-door; Keep for me all my young delight Till I am old no more. - George MacDonald, "Poetical Works" -- "They are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country." -Martin Luther, "On the Jews and Their Lies", 1543