If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.- Desmond Tutu

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.= Desmond Tutu

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.- Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890 - 1973

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live. - Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890 - 1973

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.-Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782

If Islam teaches peace, why do so many of its students flunk?
And after 14 centuries, why haven't its adherents noticed?-Josh Korn, National Post, October 19

We note that the elements appointed by the Lord Jesus are "bread and wine" and that the right to determine these rests with him alone, and not with the temperance movement  of the nineteenth century. While Jesus changed the water into wine, the temperance movement changed wine into grape juice concentrate [or Ribena]. No one has any right to change the elements of the Lord's Supper, any more than water may be replaced in baptism by orange juice. To do this is to usurp the authority of Christ. Robert Letham , The Westminster Assembly: Reading its theology in historical context, P&R, 2009, p. 351, n. 76.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.- Robert Browning, 1812 - 1889

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life. - James L. Christensen

Peace if possible, truth at all costs. ~Martin Luther

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture ~Martin Luther

Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds.~John Owen

Peace is but an illusion when Truth is scourged for the sake of it.~Joel Schaible

Grace is a provision for men who are so fallen that they cannot lift the axe of justice, so corrupt that they cannot change their own natures, so averse to God that they cannot turn to Him, so blind that they cannot see Him, so deaf that they cannot hear Him, and so dead that He Himself must open their graves and lift them into resurrection. -G.S. Bishop

We profess that we know God, but by works we deny Him; for
beatitude doth not consist in the knowledge of divine things,
but in a divine life, for the devils know them better than man.- Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618), The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., v. II, Oxford: The University press, 1829, p. 32

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 - 43 BC

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.- Edward R. Murrow, 1908 - 1965

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.- Edward R. Murrow, 1908 - 1965

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.- Edward R. Murrow, 1908 - 1965

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. -Henri Frederic Amiel

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. -Henri Frederic Amiel

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. -Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. -Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. -Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. -Henri Frederic Amiel

I know that worry works because nothing I have ever worried about has happened - Anon

Discontent makes us lose what we have; contentment gets us what we lack. -Thomas Jacombe (1622-1687)

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. ~Nozick

Oddities only strike ordinary people. Oddities do not strike odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time, while odd people are always complaining of the dullness of life. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Your home can be a place for dying or living, for wilting or blooming, for anxiety or peace, for discouragement or affirmation, for criticism or approval, for profane disregard or reverence, for suspicion or trust, for blame or forgiveness, for alienation or closeness, for violation or respect, for carelessness or caring. By your daily choices, you will make your home what you want it to be.- Carole Sanderson Streeter

We grasp for truth and lose it till it comes to us by love.-Madeleine L'Engle

Nothing but glory will make tight and fast our leaking and rifty vessels.
- Samuel Rutherford

"Your Father--who sees in secret." Matthew 6:6
Can anyone hide himself from the Lord in secret places? Can I, under any circumstances, escape His notice? Impossible!The eye of God has been fixed upon me every second of this day; it is now at this moment fixed fully upon me. But it is my Father's eye! My Father sees in secret! He sees my needs--and my woes. He sees every secret working of my foes--and will save me from them. He sees every secret influence which is likely to injure me--and will prevent it. He sees . . . the secret workings of my heart, my hidden thoughts, my unuttered desires, my soul conflicts, my private temptations. But He sees also my secret sins! Every evil thought, every improper action, every unfitting word--passes under His eye!Solemn consideration this!May it make me cautious. May it preserve me. . . from yielding to temptation, from nourishing sinful thoughts, and from acting inconsistent with my profession. My heavenly Father sees me! He sees me at this moment! He sees me
every moment! He sees my most secret motives, thoughts, and purposes!He who thus sees me--hates every sin with an infinite hatred!- James Smith, "The Pastor's Evening Visit", My Father's Eye!