Pastors

To Quote

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.

–Comedian Lily Tomlin

The lack of scriptural knowledge is the source of all evils in the church.

–John Chrysostom

If I ever had a problem, my parents never had a problem telling me I had a problem.

–Michael Jordan

If anyone has an urge to kill an abortionist, let him kill me instead. That’s about as clearly as I can renounce such madness.

–Cardinal John O’Connor

Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God’s presence with worship, only then are we made complete.

–Judson Cornwall

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

–Thomas A. Edison

It’s not better teachers, texts, or curricula that our children need most; it’s better childhoods, and we will never see lasting school reform until we see parent reform.

–Samuel Sava

Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe?

Consensus asks the question: Is it popular?

Conscience asks: Is it right?

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of the hardest jobs for a parent is making a child realize that “no” is a complete sentence.

–Anonymous

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the pain of feeling that we no longer live nobly.

–John Updike

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you’re terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn’t grant.

–Fiorello La Guardia

Don’t own so much clutter

That you will be relieved

To see your house catch fire.

–Wendell Berry

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it.

–Charles Swindoll

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

–Betty Reese

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