Where am I? Who am I?
How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And if I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director?
I want to see him.

           - Soren Kierkegaard              

"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power."

-- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Ah! How sweet coffee tastes!
Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have coffee..."

-- J. S. Bach

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

Maya Angelou

"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."

Goethe: 1749-1832, German writer, scientist

"Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill and beauty, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. the only thing in the world not for sale is character."

Justice Antonin Scalia

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

Albert Einstein

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

Calvin Coolidge

-UNKNOWN

"Abusus non tollit usum" -- that a thing is abused is not an argument against its PROPER use

Ancient Latin Saying

"Children today are tyrants - they contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers"

- Socrates

"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."

- Mark Twain

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle

"Le cœur à ses raisons que le tête ne connaît pas"

 [the heart has its reasons that the head knows not of.]

- Blaise Pascal

"Ma Gavte La Nata" - (take the cork out)

Italian saying, from "Foucault's Pendulum" - by Umberto Eco

"Obscurum per Obscurius" (explaining the obscure by means of the more obscure)

"One must discontinue being feasted upon when one tasteth best; that is know by all who want to be long loved."

- Nïëtzschë

"Rational Ignorance: it is rational to be ignorant when information costs more than it is worth."

- David Friedman

"The Mediocre Teacher Tells.

The Good Teacher Explains.

The Superior Teacher Demonstrates.

The Great Teacher Inspires."

"The mystery of God is not some theorem to be proved; it is rather an experience to be lived . . . .
The proofs for the existence of God are really an elucidation and elaboration of the experience of God."
"Theology is faith seeking understanding that is critically grounded in the experience of the revelation of God"

- Dermot Lane

"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."

- William Blake

"True and substantial wisdom principally consists of two parts: the knowledge of God, the knowledge of ourselves."

- John Calvin

"Why sit down when you can lie down?"

"At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan,
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same."

- from Edward Young, The Complaint: Night Thoughts (1742-45)

Faith is confidence that God will deliver on His promises. We are free to ask God anything we please.
And once we ask, we can HOPE that He will give us exactly what we've asked for.
But to believe He will do something He has not promised to do is not FAITH; it is PRESUMPTION!
I fear that much of what is passed off as faith these days is really presumption."

- Dr. Charles Stanley