"A woman who intends
to lean on her husband for support
better be sure he stands on solid ground."
"Foolin' a man ain't that hard,
finding one that ain't a fool, that's hard."
"Some things don't need
all the thought people give 'em."
"One of these days is none of these days."
"You can't get ahead of anybody
you're trying to get even with."
"If you wake up and
find yourself a success,
you ain't been asleep."
"When somebody commences to flatterin' you, there's generally more up their sleeve than just an arm."
"Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out."
"Women have a lot of courage;
otherwise, none would ever get married."
"It's prudent to spend less time
tryin' to figure out who's right
and more time tryin'
to figure out what's right."
"A habit is either a blessing or a curse.
Think about that when
you find you've fallen into one."
"Be wary of puppy love, it can lead to a dog's life."
"People whose manners
are on the absent side
are probably missin'
more than just their manners."
"Allow no war parties in your bed."
"When you're workin' a horse
or dealin' with a man,
take it slow, take it easy,
and don't rush 'em."
"Crack your own whip.
Don't let anybody else do it for you."
"About half your troubles
come from wanting your way;
the other half come from getting it."
"Opportunity may knock just once,
but temptation is a frequent visitor."
"The more inches you give a man,
the more he becomes a ruler."
"A weddin' ring
should cut off
the wearer's circulation."
"If you get wrapped up in yourself,
you'll find you make
a pretty small package."
"Charity is not a luxury
to be acquired along the way,
it must be nurtured
from the heart's beginning."
"Folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
"Premature ultimatums
generally result from
immature considerations."
"Sometimes it's smart
to ask a man's advice,
but takin' it is another matter."
"Don't be afraid to give up on a good idea
if the facts don't bear it out."
"Before you get serious with a cowboy,
make sure he values you more than his truck."
"Ride the high country, see through God's eyes.
Ride the desert, feel God's strength.
Ride the prairies, hear God's voice."
"If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion,
don't go looking in the donkey corral."
"Even a fool can be right some of the time."
"A horse is considered well trained
when he is convinced
that he wants to do
what you want him to do."
"Convincing yourself that a bad idea
is a good idea
is a bad idea."
"From time to time,
find yourself a place so peaceful
that you can enter the quiet."
"Recognizing simple certainties
can sometimes lead to the wildest ideas."
"Avoid becoming emotional over a jackass."
"Leisure to repent is a luxury ill-afforded."
"Baloney is baloney
no matter how thin you slice it."
"If a man thinks
that a woman who can dog steers,
ride broncs and rope the wind
is too much for him,
he's probably right."
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself;
it is inevitably intertwined with lying."
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it is inevitably intertwined with lying."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Photo credit: McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe National Park, Marilyn W. Lathrop
Monday, April 09, 2007
Religion
"We are Protestants, aren’t we?
The Reformation was a movement of doctrinal purification that emerged from the decay of institutional heresy. Apparently the strong “leadership” of generations of popes, bishops and priests was inadequate to protect the church from doctrines and practices so bizarre they would be considered downright cultish by today’s standards. An indulgence anyone? In fact, as many would argue, the leaders were the ones who concocted these abberations to begin with! It was when the exclusive right to interpret the Word of God was pried from the grasp of clergy that the laity discovered that they had been duped. Then, like now, the church is not in need of more leaders, it’s in need of more readers–believers who will embrace the responsibility of their own spiritual health and stop subcontracting it to paid clergy."
–Matt Green, editor of Ministry Today
"A Muslim moderate is a Muslim who's run out of ammunition."
Unknown
A camel starts his day on his knees and ends the day on his knees and can go 24 hours without a drink.
Jesus' half-brother James was called "camel knees."
John 4:4-14
The following is an excerpt from an article appearing in the March 2004 "Jubilee Extra" newsletter of Prison Fellowship:
"...the Bible is clear about the sanctity of human life. If a Christian lawmaker votes for abortion, he should be called to account. Taking unborn life is a sin; one can't disregard this and still be faithful to Christ.
"...Evangelicals...seldom discipline members whose votes violate biblical teaching. I know one prominent congressman who has for years worn his faith on his sleeve and frequently speaks at large Christian gatherings. But last year he voted against the ban on partial birth abortion. Astonishing! Even more astonishing is he remains prominent in evangelical circles.
"All of us must search our consciences this year and weigh each issue carefully against scriptural teachings. We mustn't settle for scorecards or knee-jerk reactions, as many have in the past. Ask yourself how politicians meet God's standards of justice and righteousness, how they respect life and care for the marginalized. And then decide who best reflects these convictions and can best preserve order and restrain evil, the first tasks of government ordained by God.
"As for candidates who proclaim their Christianity and then vote against clear biblical teachings, hold them accountable at the polls--and at church. When the world looks at the Church, it should be offended by the scandal of the Cross, not the scandal of hypocrisy."
Chuck Colson
–Connally Gilliam, Revelations of a Single Woman: Loving the Life I Didn’t Expect
"The religion of Jesus is the most peaceful, mild, and benevolent religion that was ever propagated. When we compare it with any set of dogmas invented by men, there is not one of them that can stand the least comparison with it for gentleness, mildness, and love. As for the Muslim religion, it is the religion of the vulture; but the religion of Jesus is that of the dove-all is mercy, all is mild; it is, like its Founder, an embodiment of pure benevolence, grace, and truth."
--C.H. Spurgeon, The Offense of the Cross, Sunday Evening, 1856
Pythagoras
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
--Jay Leno
The following is an excerpt from an article by Ravi Zacharias published in the Decision magazine, page 33, May 2006 issue:
"In 1971, I was 25 years old and preaching in Vietnam. I had a 17-year-old interpreter named Hien Pham. We traveled the length and breadth of the country, all the way to the demilitarized zone. Seventeen years later my phone rang. It was Hien, and he was living in the United States, working on his MBA.
"He said that after Vietnam fell he was captured by the Viet Cong and put into prison. Marxism was drilled into his head, and one night as he went to sleep, he said, "Tomorrow when I wake up, I won't pray. Maybe God does not exist."
"The next day he was assigned to clean the latrines. As he was cleaning he saw in a waste bin a filthy piece of paper with English words. He hosed it off and put it into his pocket. Late at night, when everyone else was asleep, he flashed a flashlight on that piece of paper. It was Romans, chapter 8: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28, KJV).
"The commanding officer had been given a Bible. He was tearing out pages and throwing them away in the latrine. Hien started to sob and said, "God, You didn't let me go 12 hours without praying to You."
"Hien asked if he could clean the latrines every day. He would clean them, wash off the page from the Bible and have his devotions at night.
"Years later, as he visited us in the United States, Hien took my children's hands and said, "Whenever you are tempted to go it alone, don't. The God of all power and grace is always near at hand, and what He wants from you is an intimate relationship with Him."
The Reformation was a movement of doctrinal purification that emerged from the decay of institutional heresy. Apparently the strong “leadership” of generations of popes, bishops and priests was inadequate to protect the church from doctrines and practices so bizarre they would be considered downright cultish by today’s standards. An indulgence anyone? In fact, as many would argue, the leaders were the ones who concocted these abberations to begin with! It was when the exclusive right to interpret the Word of God was pried from the grasp of clergy that the laity discovered that they had been duped. Then, like now, the church is not in need of more leaders, it’s in need of more readers–believers who will embrace the responsibility of their own spiritual health and stop subcontracting it to paid clergy."
–Matt Green, editor of Ministry Today
"A Muslim moderate is a Muslim who's run out of ammunition."Unknown
A camel starts his day on his knees and ends the day on his knees and can go 24 hours without a drink.
Jesus' half-brother James was called "camel knees."
John 4:4-14
The following is an excerpt from an article appearing in the March 2004 "Jubilee Extra" newsletter of Prison Fellowship:
"...the Bible is clear about the sanctity of human life. If a Christian lawmaker votes for abortion, he should be called to account. Taking unborn life is a sin; one can't disregard this and still be faithful to Christ.
"...Evangelicals...seldom discipline members whose votes violate biblical teaching. I know one prominent congressman who has for years worn his faith on his sleeve and frequently speaks at large Christian gatherings. But last year he voted against the ban on partial birth abortion. Astonishing! Even more astonishing is he remains prominent in evangelical circles.
"All of us must search our consciences this year and weigh each issue carefully against scriptural teachings. We mustn't settle for scorecards or knee-jerk reactions, as many have in the past. Ask yourself how politicians meet God's standards of justice and righteousness, how they respect life and care for the marginalized. And then decide who best reflects these convictions and can best preserve order and restrain evil, the first tasks of government ordained by God.
"As for candidates who proclaim their Christianity and then vote against clear biblical teachings, hold them accountable at the polls--and at church. When the world looks at the Church, it should be offended by the scandal of the Cross, not the scandal of hypocrisy."
Chuck Colson
“The question, of course,” he continued, “is how will you suffer? Will you suffer with bitterness or will you suffer prophetically? . . . You see, your generation is experiencing the fallout of a culture profoundly confused about who God is and therefore about what it is to be human and what it is to love. Your relational disappointments and suffering are, sadly, emblematic of the age.”
–Connally Gilliam, Revelations of a Single Woman: Loving the Life I Didn’t Expect
"The religion of Jesus is the most peaceful, mild, and benevolent religion that was ever propagated. When we compare it with any set of dogmas invented by men, there is not one of them that can stand the least comparison with it for gentleness, mildness, and love. As for the Muslim religion, it is the religion of the vulture; but the religion of Jesus is that of the dove-all is mercy, all is mild; it is, like its Founder, an embodiment of pure benevolence, grace, and truth."
--C.H. Spurgeon, The Offense of the Cross, Sunday Evening, 1856
"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of
winning the soul to good or evil."
Pythagoras
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
--Jay Leno
The following is an excerpt from an article by Ravi Zacharias published in the Decision magazine, page 33, May 2006 issue:
"In 1971, I was 25 years old and preaching in Vietnam. I had a 17-year-old interpreter named Hien Pham. We traveled the length and breadth of the country, all the way to the demilitarized zone. Seventeen years later my phone rang. It was Hien, and he was living in the United States, working on his MBA.
"He said that after Vietnam fell he was captured by the Viet Cong and put into prison. Marxism was drilled into his head, and one night as he went to sleep, he said, "Tomorrow when I wake up, I won't pray. Maybe God does not exist."
"The next day he was assigned to clean the latrines. As he was cleaning he saw in a waste bin a filthy piece of paper with English words. He hosed it off and put it into his pocket. Late at night, when everyone else was asleep, he flashed a flashlight on that piece of paper. It was Romans, chapter 8: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28, KJV).
"The commanding officer had been given a Bible. He was tearing out pages and throwing them away in the latrine. Hien started to sob and said, "God, You didn't let me go 12 hours without praying to You."
"Hien asked if he could clean the latrines every day. He would clean them, wash off the page from the Bible and have his devotions at night.
"Years later, as he visited us in the United States, Hien took my children's hands and said, "Whenever you are tempted to go it alone, don't. The God of all power and grace is always near at hand, and what He wants from you is an intimate relationship with Him."
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Government
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Winston Churchill
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
James Bovard
"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
Douglas Casey
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P.J. O'Rourke
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: if it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; and if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Ronald Reagan
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."
P.J. O'Rourke
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give it to the other."
Voltaire
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
Pericles
"No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
Mark Twain
"Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it."
Unknown
"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
Ronald Reagan
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
"The only difference between the tax man and the taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
Mark Twain
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress."
Mark Twain
"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."
Edward Langley
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Winston Churchill
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
James Bovard
"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
Douglas Casey
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P.J. O'Rourke
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: if it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; and if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Ronald Reagan
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."
P.J. O'Rourke
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give it to the other."
Voltaire
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
Pericles
"No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
Mark Twain
"Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it."
Unknown
"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
Ronald Reagan
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
"The only difference between the tax man and the taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
Mark Twain
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress."
Mark Twain
"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."
Edward Langley
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson
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