Style and Principle

In matters of style swim with the current;
In matters of principle stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Keep Going

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

$3 worth of God

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of him to make me love a foreigner or pick beets with a migrant worker. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of a womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack.

I'd like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

Wilbur Rees

Barking Dogs

If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.

Arabian Proverb

What We Could Become

The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are
for what we could become.

Charles Dubois

Confusion

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman

Books and Intellect

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moldy Bread

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Muhammad Ali

Pooh Wisdom

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Winnie the Pooh

Possibility

If I were to wish for anything. I should not wish for wealth and power. But for the passionate sense of the potential. And what wine is so sparkling.. what so fragrant.. what so intoxicating.. as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

That Little Point

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.

Martin Luther

If There is no God

If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Telling the Truth

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman

The One-Way Street

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one-way street, isn't it?

Agatha Christie

Bearing Your Cross

He sends a cross, but He also sends the strength to bear it.
Leo Tolstoy

Greener Grass

The grass is always greener wherever you water it.
- Anonymous