One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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| — | Epictetus |
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of the officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest… [home] become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.
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| — | Cicero (55 BC) |
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
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| — | George Bernard Shaw |
The 13 Apostles
Peter (aka Simon) & Andrew (brothers), James & John (sons of Zebedee), Philip, Nathaniel (aka Bartholomew), Matthew (aka Levi), Thomas, James (son of Alphaeus), Jude, Simon (the Zealot), Matthias, and Paul (aka Saul)
Burnout
Pastors usually only burnout if they are burning their own flame under their own strength (cf. Ex 3:2)
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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| — | Winston Churchill |
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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| — | Augustine |
Courage. What makes a King out of a slave? Courage.
What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage.
What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?
What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage.
What makes the Sphinx the 7th Wonder? Courage.
What makes the dawn come up like THUNDER?! Courage.
What makes the Hottentot so hot?
What puts the “ape” in ape-ricot?
Whatta they got that I ain’t got?
What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage.
What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?
What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage.
What makes the Sphinx the 7th Wonder? Courage.
What makes the dawn come up like THUNDER?! Courage.
What makes the Hottentot so hot?
What puts the “ape” in ape-ricot?
Whatta they got that I ain’t got?
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| — | The Cowardly Lion |
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.
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| — | Charles Schulz |
It is not because we are ultra-conservative, or obscurantist, or reactionary or the other horrid things which we are sometimes said to be. It is rather because we love Jesus Christ, and because we are determined, God helping us, to bear witness to his unique glory and absolute sufficiency. In Christ and in the biblical witness to Christ God’s revelation is complete; to add any words of our own to his finished work is derogatory to Christ.
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| — | John Robert Walmsley Stott |
