God

John 3:16  "For God so love the world, that he gave his only begotten Son so that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have eternal life".

Golda Meier (former Prime Minister of Israel)

"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."

Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Anon (some Greek guy that lived a few thousand years ago)

"Life is hard. It's even harder if you're stupid."
 

Mark Twain

"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

 Joseph (the guy you read about in Sunday School with the coat of many colors)

"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good, to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."  Gen. 50:20

 

Ronald Reagan

"Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.  We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

 

Billy Graham

''If God doesn’t judge America, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!''

 

Andrew Carnegie

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it,"
 

Phillips Brooks

“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”

 

John Locke

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreter of their thoughts.”

George Orwell

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes an act of rebellion"

Lance Armstrong

"Pain is temporary.  Quitting lasts forever."

A Wise Man

"If you sleep with dogs, don't be surprised if you wake up with fleas"

Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

King Solomon, inspired by God

"Committ to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed."

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

"Do not move and ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong.  He will take up their case against you."

"Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with a mouth full of gravel."

"He who digs a pit will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him."

cs lewis

"I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me."

"Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless."

"Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst."

"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."

 

Lou Holtz

"“I’ve never known anyone to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.” 

 

Linda Davis (Fellow Blackstone Genealogist)

"I rather have a flower in my garden, a friend at my side, a song to sing, and my loving God, than all the diamonds in the world on my neck."

William Shakespeare

"To thine own self be true."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"The pen is mightier than the sword"

 

Lawrence

"What's in the well, comes up in the bucket"

 

Sir Winston Churchill

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Yogi Berra 

"When you come to a fork in the road....Take it."

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

US Marine Corps

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."

J.T.

"Pressure makes diamonds and doo doo."

Clint Eastwood

"Go ahead, make my day"

"Are you gonna pull those pistols, or just whistle Dixie?"

"Feeling lucky punk?