Introduction
As the title suggests, the following quotes are my own creation. When
we create a quote of our own, we naturally draw from not just our own
experience, but also from all that we have accumulated over
time. Thus, there's always the possibility that what we create may be
very close to an already existing quote. I have noticed this amongst
the quotes of the ages, for often I've found someone of note being
credited with a certain quote that's virtually the same, (or very
similar to), someone else's. It's also clear that some quotes are
credited to the wrong person -- therefore, it pays to do some sort of
check before using them. And having said that, if I've presented a quote here that by some chance is identical to someone else's, and that is clearly their's by origin, please let me know.
Well, I hope you find value in my effort. Please feel free to use them, but on the condition that their origin is attributed to me -- in other words, bears my name, and without any error in reproduction.
Note: New quotes are often placed between existing quotes.
Secular/Generic Quotes
If love could claim damages for misrepresentation, the world would go broke.
Sadly,
and ironically so, those with the best of intentions often create as
much conflict and misery as those whose intent is but evil. Hence why
even the purest of motives should pass through the sieve of objectivity
and wisdom, and be placed before the scrutiny of others.
Politically
and generally speaking, it could be said of those on the right, that
their head’s not connected to their heart, and of those on the left,
that their heart’s not connected to their head.
Perhaps the
same could be said of ultra-conservative and liberal Christians, for it
often appears that one upholds truth at the expense of love, and one
upholds love at the expense of truth. Since when should one be divorced
from the other? Oh, may balance gain the ascendancy.
“The end justifies the means” is often stated by those to whom the “means” is really their “end” and of whom the “means” often is their “end.”
A
world without love would be a world where one merely existed, a world
where relationships merely begat, or satisfied lust, a world where one
was merely a tool or weapon, a user or abuser, and where one merely
killed time on a mindless merry-go-round that at some time would spin
off its axis.
True love — rather, real love — puts wisdom first and feelings last, but the wisdom it applies, it applies with feeling.
It's never too late to do a good deed, and never too soon to right a wrong.
If
those on the left won't listen to those on the right, and if those on the right
won't listen to those on the left, neither will find the balance that's missing
from either.
A generous heart is always full.
Those who rubbish conspiracies are often up to their neck in them.
Memories are always better when they're preceded by wise choices and selfless acts.
The thin end of the wedge is sloped accordingly, which is why it’s so often used conveniently.
Despite
laws to the contrary, (and there should be), torture will always be used by someone
somewhere,
who either doesn’t care, is zealously deluded, driven by hatred,
revenge, or sadism, or who fails to see the evil that’s behind such a
means and why it should never be employed.
No man's of God who persecutes and murders.
If it matters to someone, it should matter to you.
Our life is shallow and empty until it’s filled with loving words and deeds that quench the thirst in others.
It’s
better to own up than to be forced to confess, for trouble wise, the
latter tends toward more, while the other, tends toward less.
The best way to test whether a mind is open or not is to confront it.
Vanity loves to be seen, but what's seen, is simply vanity.
No
one’s life was meant to be ruled, and while all should submit to
legitimate boundaries, no law should encroach upon freedom of
expression and civil/religious liberty, nor violate a conscience thats
compass is worthy, honourable, and opposed to injury.
They say money talks. Well, judging by what I've seen, I don't think I'd particularly want to listen.
Deceit is weakness.
Laughter lines are the only kind of wrinkles that one could consider as enhancing.
I've heard folk say, "Silence is golden," but it can also be deafening, or cowardly.
Always
remember that tougher sentences and harsher jails mean greater
suffering for the wrongly convicted, of which there are far too many.
Speech is a blessing, and words are a gift that will either lower or lift.
Thoughts are like drops of rain, they either water or drown, cleanse or stain.
Don’t seek more when you’ve enough, lest it’s to share.
If you have a bowl of soup, don't fret if someone takes a spoonful, but rather, be grateful that you have a bowl of soup, and indeed the larger portion.
Power in the hands of a fool simply makes him a bigger fool, and a greater danger.
I’d rather kiss and make-up, than quarrel and break-up.
Love
knows nothing of self, contemplates no wrongful act nor injurious word,
harbors no grudge, entertains no evil surmises, leaves no time for
gossip, has no room for jealousy or bias, subtracts no rights and adds
no impositions, and seeks neither reward, fanfare, popularity or fame.
I’d rather be generous to the point of folly, than prudent to the point of miserly.
It's not what you were like yesterday, but what you're like today.
Your past is not the present, unless you let the present remain your past.
Don’t bolt the door and leave the window open.
I’d rather share a crust with the homeless, than a three course meal with the haughty.
Before you leap, make sure you can make it.
Often what envy envies, isn’t worth envy envying.
If it’s wrong to lie, it’s wrong to feign.
Don’t get so caught up with swatting flies that you overlook the wasp.
I’d rather walk a mile in peace than drive a block in anger.
A good result doesn’t necessarily mean that the right method was used, nor that it was right to use it.
It could be said, that generosity is measured more by what you have left than by what you have given.
Pride loves company, for without it, there’s no one to impress
A white lie is simply painted so.
Evolution is man’s attempt to avoid accountability.
Gentleness is strength.
Sense comes with age but seldom with the ages.
A promise is only a promise if it’s kept — otherwise, it effectively becomes a lie.
The greatest cowardice is to not speak up or do anything when there’s little threat and mere ridicule.
While age adds to our experience, nothing adds more so than our willingness to learn.
One
can’t walk tall if one’s stooping to It’s funny how many who complain
about their lot, seem to have the lot, or somehow confuse or
equate their envied standard of living with being on the breadline.a
low level.
Commonsense is in short supply due to a growing demand.
Smiles are the cheapest facelift.
It
seems rather bizarre to me, and somewhat Jekyll and Hyde, to be sitting
at your table devouring a creature while at the same time lovingly
stroking another as your pet. But then again, when one’s raised that
way, I guess the irony (some would say hypocrisy) isn’t so easily seen.
Show
me a man who can slit a creature's throat as unemotionally as he would
slice a tomatoe, and I'll show you a man whose savaged sensibilities
are fertile ground for murderous intent to grow.
I would rather stroke, cuddle, pamper and protect a creature, than slit, shoot, pluck, skin, gut, stuff, and eat one.
There’s not a doubt in my mind that a lust for killing creatures is an illness.
Politically
speaking, a swing to the left or right is equally as injurious.
However, a swing to the left has never, as far as I’m aware, produced
religious zealots falsely claiming authority to persecute.
Beauty is only skin deep, unless it's within the heart, and where it is within the heart, that person is beautiful indeed.
Any politician who’s prepared to sell his or her country’s assets is a politician unworthy of being one.
Shallow thinking results in shallow answers due to shallow reasoning.
Competitive sports — something that swells or deflates, delights or upsets.
Voices not raised are voices soon silenced.
The
reason why tale-bearers flourish is because there are always those
who’re foolish enough to waste their time listening to them.
Telling tales about others actually reveals more about ourselves.
Slander is like the sun, it can burn those who bask in it.
Accusations have a way of soiling the accuser.
If someone has upset you, tell them, not the world, and make sure that what you’re saying is reality based and not the product of your imagination.
Jealousy has a habit of giving itself away.
Jealousy is often found where there is an inferiority complex.
One's tongue is either an instrument or weapon.
What
a scandal, what a crime, that innocent men and women, soldiers, have
died in wars that were deliberately and secretly generated in order to
profit financially, or in order to achieve some misguided or
unscrupulous end, and of which those innocent men and women, soldiers,
had no idea. Yes, there just has to be a day of accountability.
It’s
funny how many who complain about their lot, seem to have the lot, or
somehow confuse or equate their envied standard of living with
being on the breadline.
Truth is often only seen when it's desired.
Too many seem to want the naked truth covered with a garment of their own choosing.
Truth is truth, whether it's recognised or not.
Truth can stand on its own. Falsehood, however, needs supporters.
Truth
is conveyed via it being spoken or written, regardless of
ridicule, hindrance, or opposition, and because there are few prepared
to pay that price today, truth’s now seen in lesser quantity, and often
closer to a shade of grey.
It’s the thin-skinned who complain the loudest when the needle of truth pointedly pricks.
Ideals should be seen as goals, not fodder for critising those who fall short of them.
The words we utter on arising can set the tone of someone's day.
The degree to which we care is measured by the degree of our effort
Life's not so much what you make
it, but how you live it.
Each and every day of our life is a clean blackboard, and thus those words and actions we choose, a new piece of chalk.
If we're not prepared to help somone who's
broken down on the road of life, we can't complain if they're slowing down the
traffic and holding us up.
The backbone of many seems to have fallen victim to an insidious form of ostereoporosis.
If
you're blessed with wealth, and are free of life's financial burdens,
don't complain about taxes and the cost of living, unless it's on
behalf of those who're less well-off, for complaining when your plate
and tummy are full, and when you've no concerns over tomorrow's needs,
is to display not only ungratefulness, but greed, shame, ignorance
and selfishness.
Love is proven by its fruitage.
"Just following orders" may be one's reason, but it can never be one's excuse.
A
soldier is only as good as his character, when all's said and done --
it has very little to do with his uniform, skill or gun. He may be a
fighting machine, earn a medal or two, but if he’s not sound within,
he’s actually a threat to all, in my view.
Giving up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
is sheer folly, and more so given that any situation that has folk
seeking such an exchange may well be one that has been deliberately and
cunningly orchestrated by those with tyranny in mind.
Kindness never costs a thing, but is money in the bank; an
investment bearing interest, that on life's share market, always rises and
never sinks.
Ignorance isn't always excusable.
We will never truly see sound government until the day we get truly sound men and women in power.
Love says what others don't, won't, or can't, and the reason it does is, because it should and must.
Experience comes with time, and the longer the length of time, the greater and deeper the experience,
and hence why older heads are usually wiser than younger heads.
When
some party builds its policies around a concealed or partly hidden
agenda, rather than around the best interests of all, it not only can’t
be trusted with the welfare of its citizens, and isn’t fit to govern,
but also takes that country down a path that can only lead to injury.
Earth's wounds are humanity's shame.
Anyone
who lifts a hand to violently strike another person who poses no
physical threat, automatically places them self in the territory of
cowards, bullies, low-lifes, and the infantile.
Shame on you, because you can't find the money for those things your citizens are
badly in need of, yet have no apparent difficulty in coming up with the
money necessary to wage war.
Those with war in mind will always malign the pacifist stance via their propaganda.
Bigotry
is the product and bedfellow of propaganda, misinformation, fear,
insecurity, ignorance, arrogance, narrow mindedness, bias, failure to
relate and understand, inability to reason and accommodate, and tends
to shun the lot of something due to a little.
If
you’ve fallen victim to people pleasing, political correctness,
remaining silent and not rocking the boat, you’re no longer your own
person but the slave and puppet of others, and are caught in the
current of a majority flow.
The majority are always seduced by the majority.
We’re living in a time where most prefer fables to truth, and where truth is indeed being exchanged for fables.
When
the common man is fainting from the cost of living, and dying is too
expensive, yet those in power well-off, well-fed, well-kept and
doing fine, we have an unjust imbalance that has in it the seeds of
oppression and tyranny — that is, if such hasn’t already taken place.
The sexy look just fosters lust, not an appreciation of beauty.
Though plainness may not turn heads, beauty can only but eventually disappoint.
Worry is a grinding stone that blunts the richness and fullness of life whilst sharpening the edge of misfortune and misery.
Many
who knock those who’re out of work and on a benefit, are in jobs that
they don’t need — jobs that they also aren't particularly required for — and thus are one of the reasons why many are out of
work and on a benefit.
The welfare system is seldom understood, appreciated, nor wanted by those who have no
need of it, and whose lifestyle is supposedly squeezed by it.
The welfare system is a country’s heartbeat. Thus, strong beat — healthy condition, weak beat — terminal condition.
It
takes far more effort and courage to deal well with the assaults of
life than it does to achieve great things that bring us fame and
fortune.
All who torture their enemies, are as bad as their enemies.
What
is war but someone’s son killing someone’s son, someone’s brother
killing someone’s brother, someone’s father killing someone’s father,
someone’s husband killing someone’s husband, someone’s uncle, cousin or
nephew killing someone’s uncle, cousin or nephew, and all, killing
someone’s sister, daughter, or mother, either intentionally,
indirectly, accidentally,
or inevitably.
Though
we may not approve of someone’s religion, nor of those things that
someone may indulge in, seek or promote, and though we’ve every right
to speak up and speak out in order to inform, and every right to
appropriately do what we can in order to change things for what we
believe is the better, we should never curse, belittle, mistreat, nor
injure them, for by so doing, we simply reveal ill and wrong within us,
and if we’re a Christian, that we’re no true follower of Jesus Christ,
but rather, a hypocritical zealot.
Dignity never stoops, except to aid another, shoulder the blame, and bear any burden.
Our thinking and thoughts are only as deep as we dwell, as wide as we see, and as high as we look.
The worst excuse that you can come up with is that your parents did it.
Many who make hay while the sun shines could do with feeling the pitchfork of justice.
"You should accept me as I am" shouldn't mean what one has become through lack of effort and care.
"I'll be back in a moment" is seldom so.
Greener pastures have a habit of turning out to be nothing more than artificial grass.
The remorse of many is more often over the results than their foolish action.
If
we can’t express our personal opinion, or differing view, (in a
reasonable and legitimate way), either privately or publicly without
being treated unpleasantly, alias some vitriolic attack, then those
responding in such a way are more to be feared and condemned, for
they’re a grave threat to freedom of expression, liberty and democracy.
Those
who’re militantly unhappy with allowing others to have their
controversial say, need to realise that they’re repeating history,
which could see the rights of all going astray.
If
as much effort, zeal, thought and time went into marriages as generally
goes into weddings, I’m sure that there would be less couples seeking
divorce.
If you don’t like what I’m saying, that’s fine; If you wish to disagree with what I’m saying, that’s fine;
If you wish to tell others
you don’t agree with what I’m saying, that’s fine; But if you try to
prevent me from what I’m saying, chances are you’ll restrict your own freedom to say what you think.
Never pursue a good end via bad means.
Freedom of speech must never be negotiable, but rather, always demanded and the bottom-line.
Religion and politics are the worst of bedfellows.
Despite
what some may think, or how things may appear at anytime, we’re headed
for another dark age — a final age, I believe — where liberties and freedom as we
know them will once again be removed from the masses under the guise of
some common good, such no doubt being authenticated by cunning and
clever doings. Therefore, and drawing from history, raise your voice
and wield your pen like you’ve never done before, for now’s your last
chance.
The stronger the government, the weaker the people.
If you’re not a seeker of truth, chances are, you’ll never find out what you need to.
Open minds are precious things, for such are seldom found and sorely needed.
Christian Quotes
Where God’s Word is not the final authority, someone obviously thinks that their word is.
When what we desire clashes with what God wants, we have a problem of our own choosing.
If
you want a spiritual high, don’t dwell on what’s below.
Many are very knowledgeable when it comes to God’s Word, but grossly ignorant about what it’s actually saying.
If you want to live eternally, don’t settle for mortality.
When we’ve dressed down for church, we’ve clearly forgotten to look up.
One cherished little sin can have as detrimental an effect as that little stone that felled the giant Philistine.
Truth is no more popular today than it was in Christ’s day.
Instead of saying a prayer, be an answer to a prayer.
A watered down gospel may stretch further, but it won’t be as filling, nutritious, satisfying, or lasting.
Little faith, little God.
A
one size fits all new age spirituality, or generic religion, may appeal
universally, but it will never appeal to the God who proclaims specific
truths that are not to be added to, subtracted from, nor exchanged for
peace or unity.
When preachers mix the Gospel with comedy, guess Who’s not laughing?
I’ve
yet to see a faith healer who can replace a missing limb, restore sight
to the certified blind, heal a paraplegic, or cure the likes of Down’s
syndrome.
When
faith healers achieve superstar status, live extravagant lifestyles,
and sport the trinkets of their success, you can rest assured that
they’re not of heavenly origin; not in harmony with Scripture; that
their healings are unable to withstand serious scrutiny; and that their
bank deposits are the result of a well orchestrated campaign.
Given that Scripture clearly states that God is the head of the Church, upon whose authority would any man claim that he is?
I
find it intriguing how many discard the Old Testament, yet conveniently
point to it in order to prove the validity of a certain action they
take.
Grace is a non-exchangeable gift.
God’s
Word — believe it, trust it, uphold it, defend it, read it, dwell on
it, live it, preach it, share it, apply it, and test all and everything
by it.
Christians should be carriers of infectious joy.
God's Ten Commandments are commandments, not suggestions.
Self esteem is built on man, (just sinking sand), while self worth is built on God, (the solid Rock).
Too many confuse grace with licence, when it was licence that created our need of grace.
It's
interesting to note that the Sabbath commandment is the forth one, and
that the commandment not to steal is the eighth one. Thus, could
there be some connection, and could that be one reason why God begins
the forth commandment with, "Remember..."?
Christians
need to remember that throughout God’s Word the issue has always raged
around loyalty to God or man, (Satan), true worship as opposed to false
worship, truth as opposed to heresy, obedience as opposed to
rebellion, willing adherence as opposed to legalistic adherence,
true Christianity as opposed to a form of Christianity, and that the
great controversy is all about Satan attempting to get the glory and
honour that belongs to God.
Given
that Satan is in the business of cunningly presenting counterfeits that
closely resemble the truth, each Christian needs to be very in tune
with their God, His Word, will and ways.
"I'll pray for you" too often means instead of.
The
saddest thing that I've seen in Christianity is bigotry, and
this, just because someone walks a different path, and views things
differently.
"Thou shalt not kill" — but I'll just keep this gun in case I need to. Did I just miss something?
Grace
shows God’s love for us. Obedience shows our love for Him. Thus, mercy
on His behalf, and gratefulness on our behalf — our genuine
gratefulness being displayed by our fruits, which are but the workings
and empowerings of the Holy Spirit in union with our receptive,
willing, and conscious daily application of God’s will, having come to
a knowledge of such, and so desiring to become like Him in character,
word and deed.
If grace secured salvation without obedience
from there on, then sinners could keep on sinning so long as they
“believed,” which would be sanctioned hypocrisy — and what point our
Lord’s example?
Christ died for sinners, not the rebellious.
Grace is not an immunity pin that frees us from the consequences of continuing in sin.
If
grace freed Christians from the consequences of disobedience, obedience
would no doubt become a forgotten word, Christians only so in name, and
God’s Law nothing but a relic from the past that unfairly penalized
pre-Calvary and showed its author to be unjust.
To pursue some Christian good while not being good to some Christian, is hardly Christianity, and more a charade.
It’s biblical to disagree with another Christian, and to challenge and refute their beliefs, but it’s never biblical to mock either them or their beliefs.
Evidence
of un-Christ-like prejudice and unbiblical behaviour within
Christianity is soon discovered by those who become a member of a
minority denomination.
Halloween
teaches young children that the macabre and ghoulish are fun, thus
paving the way for an interest in the occult where everything from
blood sacrifices to sexual initiations come orgies are an integral part
of its evil, demonic doings.
By Lance Landall
