But tis' strange;
And oftentimes, to win us our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequences

Banqou from Shakespear's 'Macbeth'

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

Sir Francis Bacon from his essay 'Of Studies'

Dear Lord give us the strength to change that which needs to be changed in our lives, give us the courage to endure that which we cannot change and give us the wisdom to tell the first from the second

Sometimes God will lay us flat on our backs so that we will at least once in a while look to the sky

Unkown (I read it once from somewhere)

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

Sir Francis Bacon from his essay 'Of Studies'

I love that quote! part of it is is in the book Inkheart on the front of Mo's worshop door!

I know I'm going to terribly mangle this ...but I'm looking for a quote with something like:

"your sins, I can forgive them, all of them " (might also have "I am life"). Obviously words of Jesus, but can't even make a guess as to source. Could be Mere Christianity, could be a dozen of other sources by CSL.

After changing terms & searching more on the www, I finally found it.

"What are we to make of Christ?" There is no question of what we can make of Him, it is entirely a question of what He intends to make of us. You must accept or reject the story.

The things He says are very different from what any other teacher has said, Others say, "this is the truth about the Universe. This is the way you ought to go," but He says, "I am the Truth, and the Way, and the Life." He says, "No man can reach absolute reality, except through Me. Try to retain your own life and you will be inevitably ruined. Give yourself away and you will be saved." He says, "If you are ashamed of Me, if, when you hear this call, you turn the other way, I also will look the other way when I come again as God without disguise. If anything whatever is keeping you from God and from Me, whatever it is, throw it away. If it is your eye, pull it out. If it is your hand, cut it off. If you put yourself first you will be last. Come to Me everyone who is carrying a heavy load, I will set that right. Your sins, all of them, are wiped out, I can do that. I am Re-birth, I am Life. Eat Me, drink Me, I am your Food. And finally, do not be afraid, I have overcome the whole Universe." That is the issue." (C.S. Lewis, God in The Dock, "What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?", pg. 160.)
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"Indecision may or may not be my problem"
-Jimmy Buffet

I love this one, being the indecisive person I am

Haha, that's a great one Glenstorm the Great!

I read the LotR books for the first time recently, and Sam was undoubtedly my favorite character. This line of his struck a chord with me, for some reason.

Aw, Sam's great! One of my favorite quotes in the trilogy is his:

"How do I feel?" He cried "Well, I don't know how to say it. I feel, I feel'-- He waved his arms in the air--'I feel like spring after winter, like sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!"

I already posted it a little ways back, but I couldn't help but post it again. I just love the sheer joy of it...I don't know, I can't really explain it but I love it. And your quote also reminded me of another good Sam quote, but I couldn't find it maybe it was just me thinking I was remembering something, but here's a quote close to the one I thought of:

"I wish I wasn't the last. I wish old Gandalf was here, or somebody. Why am I left all alone to make up my mind? I'm sure to go wrong. And it's not for me to go taking the Ring, putting myself forward. But you haven't put yourself forward; you've been put forward."

Oh, and Djaq's quotes are hilarious especially the first!

Here are a few other ones I've thought of recently...

"It may be for others to complete what we've begun, but there must be a beginning."
-Stephan Lawhead (I actually haven't read Tuck yet, but this is such a great quote)

"My dear fellow, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of a man could invent."
-Sherlock Holmes

You are not the Lord of Men, and shall not be, though all Arda and Menel fall in your dominion. Beyond the Circles of the World you shall not pursue them that refuse you.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin

Depart!...and fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

"Many have taken ship at the pale beaches.."
"I know. And few return to the sunlit lands. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?"

C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

".....is he safe? I shall feel quite nervous meeting a lion."
".....safe? Of 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

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion

same as above.

A hero...toils more for others than for himself alone

Lloyd Alexander, The High King

Past tears are present strength

George MacDonald, Phantastes

For what may a man not pride himself on, since he cannot get rid of it?"

Same as above.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully until you love God

C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

Though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night

Sarah Williams 'The Old Astronomer to his Pupil'

Why are you afraid to die? Don't you know where you're going?"
Sure, I know where I'm going, but I don't want to end up there because I got hit by a train

Fireproof

A tree can't complain that you haven't gotten its likeness properly

Winston Churchill

Its all in Plato, all in Plato. What do they teach them at these schools?

C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Bible, Romans 8: 38-39

I am Teenage Protagonist #1298463 and My Parents Hate Me and I Have no Friends

Limyaael's LiveJournal

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

Has also been credited to Mother Theresa

Aw, Sam's great! One of my favorite quotes in the trilogy is his:

"How do I feel?" He cried "Well, I don't know how to say it. I feel, I feel'-- He waved his arms in the air--'I feel like spring after winter, like sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!"

I already posted it a little ways back, but I couldn't help but post it again. I just love the sheer joy of it...I don't know, I can't really explain it but I love it. And your quote also reminded me of another good Sam quote, but I couldn't find it maybe it was just me thinking I was remembering something, but here's a quote close to the one I thought of:

"I wish I wasn't the last. I wish old Gandalf was here, or somebody. Why am I left all alone to make up my mind? I'm sure to go wrong. And it's not for me to go taking the Ring, putting myself forward. But you haven't put yourself forward; you've been put forward."

Oh, and Djaq's quotes are hilarious especially the first!

I love both of those quotes that you posted! The joy expressed in the first one is inspiring, and I absolutely love the second one! That part of TTT was so moving for me, and that quote was one of the bits that made me cry. *happy sigh*

Aren't they though? She's hilarious!

"It may be for others to complete what we've begun, but there must be a beginning."
-Stephan Lawhead (I actually haven't read Tuck yet, but this is such a great quote)

I love that quote! I was that close to putting the book down and going to make a quote sig out of it the first time I read it. It's probably the best quote in the whole series!

A few other favorites...

"I live to provide amusement for my betters." - Scarlet by Stephen Lawhead.
"We will not fear until there is cause to fear, and then we will bind courage to our hearts and resist." - Same as above.
"It was as if the farm dog that chased every passing wagon had against every sane expectation, finally caught one." - Tuck by Stephen Lawhead.
"Our only hope of keeping what we have is to risk it all." - Same as the previous.

"Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution." - Dr. Joseph Warren. (One of my favorite patriots from the Revolutionary war)
"...appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free." - Dr. Joseph Warren.
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." - Patrick Henry.
"Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle." - General Jeb Stuart.

--- flambeau

Cool quotes, everyone! I love the LotR ones.

A few fav quotes from me. I'm in a Tolkien mood, so here's two from The Hobbit:

"I may be a burglar, or so they say, personally I never really felt like one...but I am an honest one, I hope, more or less." - Bilbo.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - Thorin.

Aaand...one more quote.

"Too much information can choke your brain!" - The Candlestone by Bryan Davis. Great book.

If you go lookin' for offense, you're gonna find it
If you go lookin' for real love, your gonna find it

Sara Groves

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing
Its about as useless as a screen door on a submarine

Rich Mullins

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make no difference in the end what you have chosen instead

William Law

This is a life like no other
This is the great adventure

Steven Curtis Chapman

There are people who spend a great deal of time worrying about the parts of Scripture they do not understand. The parts of Scripture that worry me most are the ones I do understand

Mark Twain

God has given me stubborness when I know I am right

John Adams

I am here trying to prevent people saying the one foolish thing people too often say, "I accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be a lunatic--on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg--or he would be the Devil of H--. You must make your choice. This man either 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 for a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But do not come with any patronizing nonsense about him being a great teacher. He did not leave that open to us. He did not intend to.

C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity

You can have no greater sign of a confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough

William Law

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

When the time comes to you at which you will be forced to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all the time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces

It is a far far better thing I do, than I have ever done. It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.

The Bible, Luke 11:25b-26a

Unless you tell your moods 'where they can get off', you will never be a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion.

C.S Lewis

Patriotism is the solid conviction that a man's country is superior to all others, because he was born in it

G. K Chesterton

Thieves respect property, they merely wish the property to become theirs so that they may more perfectly respect it

G. K. Chesterton

Either God exists--or he does not. Either we have a relationship with him--or that relationship has been severed

Catherine Marshall

Here's mine, enjoy! .

"Three words, eight letters, say it, and I'm yours" --- Chuck Bass.

"Someday Lizzy someone will catch your eye, and you'll have to watch your tongue" --- Jane Bennet from Pride and Prejudice (the movie 2005).

"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you" --- Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice (the movie from 2005).

"You're sloppy, that's sloppy! It's just disgraceful! and I want the agony out of your eyes!" --- Sue Sylvester from Glee.

"I love you wildcat" --- Gabriella Montez, High School Musical.

"Why do you ask such a question?" asked Mr. Darcy. "To make out your character," Lizzy answered, "and what have you discovered?" added Mr. Darcy, "very little," replied Lizzy. --- Pride and Prejudice (the movie 2005).

there are lots, mostly from Pride and Prejudice but I forgot them already. (More power!) .

"Reduced to babysitting. Marvelous." - Fenoglio, "Inkheart" (movie) ( I love that line!)

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good he does, but for the evil from which he forebears.

Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Above all shadows rides the sun/and Stars forever dwell/I will not say the day is done/Nor bid the Stars farewell

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

...we are not bound forever to the circles of this world, and beyond there is more than memory.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen

"You know, whenever I see someone laughing over a war novel, it always makes me begin to wonder if something is wrong with them." - my Dad after he saw me laughing while reading a WW1 novel by Jeff Shaara. Admittedly, I can see why that might seem strange, but it was a funny part of the book!

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - General Douglas MacArthur
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." - General Douglas MacArthur
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom." - General George S. Patton, Jr.

--- flambeau

"I feel like so much of music today, especially those who come from a Christian background, spend so much time hiding who they really are, or being ashamed of their beliefs, trying to be 'scene' or to sell records. I want every kid to know I am not going to change who I really am to sell records. I mean, I absolutely hate shoving things down people's throats, but hiding who you are is just as bad."
-Dallas Taylor (ex-frontman of Underoath)