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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:05 pm 
I may have missed it, but I don't recall a thread for favorite (or provocative) quotes. Obviously, some may cause issues and I hope that this thread will avoid arguments over quote content. Should one disagree with a quote, perhaps a thread on it can be started somewhere else. For now, I will start with a couple statements from a book I just finished, What was I Thinking: Things I've Learned Since I Knew it All by Steve Brown

The whole Bible can be summed up in two statements:
1) Cheer up! You're a lot worse than you think you are.
2) Cheer up! God's grace is a lot bigger than you think it is.


Quoting Jack Miller


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:10 pm 
This one, Steve Brown quotes Tony Compolo, whom he interviewed on his show.

Have you heard the expression "Love the sinner but hate the sin"? That's not what my Bible says. My Bible says "Love the sinner and hate my sin."


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:39 pm 
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me.

Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:40 pm 
People tell me they're impressed with my humility. That makes me feel good, and then I want to fake being even more humble. It's a vicious cycle.


Steve Brown, What Was I Thinking?: Things I've learned since I knew it all


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:49 pm 
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

D Martyn Lloyd-Jones


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:21 pm 
Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up death camps.

Randall Jarrell

I found this in my quote file and while I remember reading it, I don't remember where I read this or even who the author is.


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:00 pm 
I try to do here the same thing I do in all my books: Face, alone, this world I live in, try to understand it and confront it with another reality I live in, but which is utterly unverifiable.

Jacques Ellul


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:21 pm 
The tragedy is not that the Questions have no answers, but that we have become too busy to ask them.

Max Lucado


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:42 pm 
I don't know if I inadvertantly implied that I was the only one to post here, but all are welcome to post favorite quotes.

Get even is the law of the jungle, Give grace is the law of the Kingdom.

Max Lucado.

I have for years avoided reading Lucado, being of the opinion that if something is widely popular it can't be that good. I am glad I overcame my prejudice, as I really enjoy him.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:14 pm 
Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?" for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Ecclesiastes 7:10


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Hi xulon, since you did not seem to specify what types of quotes you were looking for I'll give you two of my favorites :) For all the wives and mom's out there

"Motherhood, the toughest job you'll ever love" adapted from the marines

and my favorite:
"The less I have, the less I have to clean!"

I know they are not "deep" but man do that sure fit! :)


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:48 am 
Thanks for joining in. My own choices of quotes may have skewed the expectation. I had no agenda for what constitutes a "good" quote. Just ones whoever contributes wants to contribute. They don't even have to be "theological".

New rule: no one can write "lol" unless they have, in fact, laughed out loud.

Bill Maher


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"I don't need to read the newspaper to know this world has been shaved by a drunken barber."

This is Walter Brennan's response to someone who asks him if he'd like see the daily newspaper. It's from the film Meet John Doe directed by Frank Capra.


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A favourite faith-wise:
Jesus loves us as we are and not as we should be, since none of us is as we should be.

Brennan Manning. A Stranger to Self-Hatred, p80.

But this is my current reality check:
The shortest pencil is better than the longest memory.

A Thought for the Day in a devotional booklet ... I think ... I didn't write it down!

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:49 pm 
Avid Reader wrote:
The shortest pencil is better than the longest memory.
My favorite for a long time

A pencil with no point needs no eraser


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