Quotes Flashcards
Ronald Regan - Humility
There is no end to what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit
Abraham Kuyper
there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’
P.J. O’Rourke
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
John Adams on Constitution
our constitution presupposes a moral and religious people, and it is wholly unfit for any other
Ben Franklin: Time
“Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.”
Ben Franklin - how to measure the value of ideas
“I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects, and not by their abstract truth,”
Shackleton
By endurance we conquer
St. Ignatious
The best defense is offense, you defend by attacking. Let’s attack by expanding gods kingdom, first in our hearts, then in our families, and then in the world. Yes, you have to have borders, but our duty is not to let the borders stay there. We have to push outwardly infinitely. - st. Ignatious
Why Write - Sonke Ahreans
Writing is not only for proclaiming opinions, but the main tool to obtain insight worth sharing
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold, and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Solzhenitsyn’s most famous line,
We are never closer to evil than when we think that the line between good and evil passes between groups and not through each human heart.
Mark Twain
It’s not the passages in the Bible, but I don’t understand the bother me. It’s the passages that I do understand that bother me.
Pascal
God is visible to those who seek him and not to those who do not seek him. There is enough light for those to see who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
C.S. Lewis
the modern world says you can be religious as long as you are alone and then it says under its breath we will make sure you are never alone
St. Augustine
“You are more inward to me than my most inward part and higher than my highest”
