"God has given Christians a window, but we fight over the curtains." - Matt Maher (singer/songwriter)

"Don't try to be someone else if you already are created to just be yourself" -- me. .

".....I don't wanna live like someone else, I'm happy in my skin, being myself, let's dance......"
- Hawk Nelson, "Let's Dance" (song)

I've been meaning to wander into this thread for awhile now, but haven't had the time. I've read through most of the pages and there are several awesome quotes here!

Lately I have been reading Paul Gallico's Thomasina (a book I highly recommend). There are several good quotes in it, but I'll just share a few. A few of these are a bit spoilerish, so if you haven't read the book (or seen the Disney movie, The Three Lives of Thomasina one of the best book-to-movie adaptations I have ever seen), go read the book before reading the quotes!

If to love and communicate, or attempt to communicate with a supreme being, in any one of a hundred different ways, is mad, then nine tenths of the people inhabiting this globe are insane. Or let me put it this way: the great appeal of Jesus was his compassion. Two thousand years ago He introduced love, pity, and gentleness into a brutal and demented world. Yet that world has been steadily moving away from His kind of sanity ever since.

What have you to do with sin, Andrew MacDhui, and why should you who do not believe be concerned with it? Do you not know that sin is the peculiar privilege of the religious and one of the penalties connected with the life of an agnostic is that he can never enjoy it?

Ha Ha! How do you like my storm? Shall I make you a confession? I don't. I hate it. I am frightening myself to death. I loathe storms. They make every hair on my back stand up; I can't think properly and I crackle with electricity from nose tip to tail.

How I HATED to be held and dragged about by her like a stuffed doll, and yet that moment when I thought I was about to be suffocated and die in a strange chimney and the memory scent filled my nostrils I became filled with such love and desire to be carried by her but once more that I thought my heard would burst from sadness, and I gathered myself for one last despairing effort.

Mr. Peddie's cheerful and engaging smile lit up his round face "...But when you look back over it all, and think about it--from the very beginning, hasn't the design been beautiful?" MacDhui caught his breath sharply, for his friend had surprised him again...He drew slowly on his pipe, throwing a smoke screen about his thoughts as he searched them out, tracing them, remembering them far back, seeing detail upon detail. And when he spoke at last it was to say gently, "Aye, Angus. You are right. It was very beautiful."

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Part 2, chapter 8.

"The written word. It's a powerful thing. We have to be careful with it."
- Mo, "Inkheart" (movie)

Never laugh at live dragons

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

If you want to be the best, believe that you're the best -- my adviser.

"When God closes a door, somewhere He opens a window."
- Maria, "The Sound Of Music" (movie)

"Christians should stand out like a sparkling diamond against a rough and dark background. We should be poised, cultured, courteous, gracious, but firm in the things we do or do not do. We should laugh and be radiant, but we should refuse to allow the world to pull us down to it's level."
~ Billy Graham

We won because we deserved it -- our adviser

"We stole the Statue Of Liberty! The small one from Las Vegas."
- Gru, "Despicable Me" (movie)

Who are you gonna be?/When you're on your knees who do you believe?/Fear is a lonely man/So you've been given innocence/You've been given innocence again

Switchfoot, "Innocence Again"

Go, go where you are/Anchor your roots underneath/Doubt your doubts/And believe your beliefs

Switchfoot "Ode to Chin"

When I look at the stars/Stars/I see Someone else

Switchfoot, "Stars"

Be a light for all to see/for every act of love will set you free

Michael W. Smith, "Live the Life"

if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself

2 Timothy 2:13

But God's Word is not chained.

2 Timothy 2:9

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

C.S. Lewis

In this needle and haystack life/I've found miracles there in your eyes/Its no accident we're here tonight/We are once in a lifetime

Switchfoot, "Needle and Haystack Life"

Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor, act as if you did.

C.S. Lewis.

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." -Gore Vidal

if at first you don't succeed, try try again - anonymous