Quotable Quotes

[RabbiKnife]

"Ka-boom.... [gunshot from backyard]...

"Kids, I've got some good news and some bad news.  Bad news is, no Easter eggs or candy this year.
Good news is, rabbit for lunch..."

~~ RabbiKnife's dad, one Easter Sunday morning when the Knife was a mere lad of 12...

[ProDeo]

Years ago I released a special version of my chess program ProDeo, the Gospel version.

http://rebel13.nl/prodeo/prodeo25.html

Yes, this special version after each move throws a (Christian safe) random (light-heartedly) quote at you. Categories are: Love, Wisdom, Christian, Humor, Philosophical, Gospel and Science with the intent to make you think. Examples below.

Here are the quotes I collected in 2 parts.

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

Only those who are already born support abortion.

-- MAD Magazine 1969
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Philosophical

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

-- Heywood Broun
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

You must make your choice. Either this man was and is the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.

You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as  a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.

But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.

He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. 

-- C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity 1952
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

The evolution believing atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

-- Kent Hovind
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Philosophical

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

-- Albert Einstein
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

Where there is love there is no question.

-- Albert Einstein
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Philosophical

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ...

Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. 

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Philosophical

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires - desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it.

If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. 

-- Bertrand Russell, philosopher
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

One day a group of Darwinian scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God.

So they picked one Darwinian to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The Darwinian walked up to God and said, God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost.

God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the Darwinian was done talking, God said, Very well, how about this? Let's say we have a man-making contest. To which the Darwinian happily agreed. God added, Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.

The Darwinian said, Sure, no problem and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God looked at him and said, No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!!!!
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

I was shocked, confused, bewildered as I entered Heaven's door, Not by the beauty of it all, nor the lights or its decor.

But it was the folks in Heaven who made me sputter and gasp­ The thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics and the trash.

There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money twice. Next to him was my old neighbor who never said anything nice.

Herb, who I always thought was rotting away in hell, was sitting pretty on cloud nine, looking incredibly well.

I nudged Jesus, What's the deal? I would love to hear your take. How'd all these sinners get up here? God must've made a mistake. And why's everyone so quiet, so somber ­ give me a clue.

Child,' He said, 'they're all in shock. They never thought they'd be seeing you!
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

Don't judge someone just because they sin differently than you.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

If the devil reminds you on your past, remind him on his future.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

Rather a prayer without and end than an ending without prayer.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

Big Bang... so first there was nothing and then the nothingness exploded.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

Summum of self esteem: looking at yourself through God's eyes.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

Always testify, if necessary with words.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

God didn't promise us a calm journey but a safe arrival.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

Temptation is only a problem when you allow the inner discussion again.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

Love your neighbour because that's me.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

God believes in atheists.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

If money is the root of all evil, then why do they ask for it in church?
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

Atheist: What's this fly doing in my soup?
Waiter:  Praying.
Atheist: Very funny. I can't eat this. Take it back.
Waiter:  You see? The fly's prayers were answered.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

A poster reads: God is dead.
-- Nietzsche

The graffiti underneath reads: Nietzsche is dead.
-- God
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.....

Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
 
-- Jesus Christ
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favourable properties of physics on which life depends are in every respect deliberate....

It is therefore almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect ... higher intelligences ...even to the limit of God... such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

-- Sir Fred Hoyle, British mathematician, astronomer and cosmologist
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

The notion that ... the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

-- Sir Fred Hoyle, British mathematician, astronomer and cosmologist
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

-- Plato
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

-- Oscar Wilde
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

-- Lucille S. Harper
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

-- Ali MacGraw to Ryan O'Neal in Love story (1970)
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

-- Socrates
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

He who recognizes no humanity in others, loses it in himself.

-- Author unknown
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Philosophical

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

-- Albert Einstein
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

-- Soren Kierkegaard
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

-- Soren Kierkegaard
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

-- John Piper
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

-- Euripides
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

-- Bryant H. McGill
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

Love is serving the other.

-- Me
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness.

If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

-- Stevie Wonder
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Immature love says: I love you because I need you.

Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

-- Erich Fromm
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same Master.

-- Michelangelo
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

-- Soren Kierkegaard
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr
[END]

[ProDeo]

Part 2

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

-- Jesus Christ
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science | Wisdom

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

-- Isaac Newton
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

-- Isaac Newton
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

The human genome is made up of DNA, which has four different chemical building blocks. These are called bases and abbreviated A, T, C, and G.

In the human genome, about 3 billion bases are arranged along the chromosomes in a particular order for each unique individual.

To get an idea of the size of the human genome present in each of our cells, consider the following analogy:

If the DNA sequence of the human genome were compiled in books, the equivalent of 200 volumes the size of a Manhattan telephone book (at 1000 pages each) would be needed to hold it all.

-- The Human Genome Project
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

A cell is far more complicated than any machinery built by man so how could such a complex organism rose from dead material by chance?

World-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Holye said it this way:

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing-747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there?
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

I estimate that the chance of life evolving on any given single planet, like the Earth, is one chance in 1x102,000,000,000 [that is one chance out of 1 followed by 2 billion zeroes] (1973, p. 46).

This figure is so large that it would take 6,000 books of 300 pages each just to write the number!

-- Carl Sagan
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist.

I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them.

I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

-- Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics)
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count and those who can't.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

It takes 20 years to build a reputation, and only five minutes to destroy it.

-- Warren Buffet
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

I miss you.

-- God
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

I love you.

-- God
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

-- Corrie ten Boom
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Nothing sucks like the moment in a heated argument when you realize you're wrong.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never spent a night with a mosquito.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

The wish often is the father of the doctrine.

-- Me
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel | Christian

Lord, I believe, help me in my unbelief.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

-- Jesus Christ
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

And he [Jesus] opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. 

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. 

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 

-- Jesus Christ
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Love

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
 
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
 
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
 
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 
 
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
 
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
 
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
 
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

-- Jesus
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him [Jesus].

And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them. 

So he [Jesus] told them this parable:

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

-- Jesus
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Jesus wept.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Philip said to him [Jesus], Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.

Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?

Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, Show us the Father?

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,

nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him.

Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

--Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed [Jesus]; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him [Jesus] from the dead.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

God's Everlasting Love

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn?

Christ Jesus is the one who died-more than that, who was raised-who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Humor

I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Science

The fine-tuned universal constants.

There are 43 of such physical constants in the Universe and if you change just one of them too much life would be impossible.

The chance these 43 universal physical constants developed itself (randomly) by chance is astronomic low.

One part in 10^37 is such an incredibly sensitive balance that it is hard to visualize.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.)

Next, pile dimes from here to the moon on a billion other continents the same size as North America.

Paint one dime red and mix it into the billions of piles of dimes.

Blindfold a friend and ask him to pick out one dime.

The odds that he will pick the red dime are one in 10^37. 
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life;

-- Jesus Christ
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

-- Jesus Christ
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

-- Jesus Christ
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

And this is the promise that he made to us -- eternal life.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

-- Bible
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Pascal's famous wager.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Christian

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

-- Pascal
[END]

[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[END]

[Sojourner]

Wow! I guess that pretty much wraps up this thread. 

[Kingfisher]

I say keep em coming!

There is no more devastating blow against evil then what a human being chooses God in the face of suffering, disappointment, unbelief, chronic pain, frustration, abandonment...before the circumstances change, to get up and proclaim that God is good is a devastating blow to evil.
-John Eldredge

[Sojourner]

"The greatest injustice is using the law to keep justice at bay." -Scott Adams

[Sojourner]

"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in." -Will Rogers

[Sojourner]

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." -Booker T Washington

[Sojourner]

"There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works." -Will Rogers

[Sojourner]

"The best way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket." -Will Rogers

[Sojourner]

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar." -Abraham Lincoln

[Sojourner]

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." -Charles De Gaulle

[Sojourner]

"You cannot fully understand that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have."  -Corrie Ten Boom

[Sojourner]

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." -John F. Kennedy

[Sojourner]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake." -Napoleon Bonaparte