quotes about jesus christ

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ~John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871



I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ~James Thurber Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley



One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman



Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~Plato



I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller



As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow. ~Author Unknown



Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law



It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling. ~Mark Twain



It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown



It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski



I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott



Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949