And I quote...

[Newt]

 "He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
- Elbert Hubbard

[indianasmith]

"A man who cannot keep his wedding vows is unlikely to keep any other vow he makes." - Harry S Truman

[Flangepart]

[ER]

An even dozen by G.K. Chesterton, that great apostle of common sense (an uncommon quality, by the way):


"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead."

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite...The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head."

"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"It is only when one is afraid that one can be brave."

"A loving God is a master suffering instead of the servants."

[Rev. Powell]

An even dozen by G.K. Chesterton, that great apostle of common sense (an uncommon quality, by the way):


"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead."

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite...The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head."

"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"It is only when one is afraid that one can be brave."

"A loving God is a master suffering instead of the servants."

And one more for the baker's dozen:

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."

[Rev. Powell]

"One out of three American married couples is entirely platonic. And when husbands and wives do actually have sex, it lasts on average statistically for seven-and-a-half minutes, and that includes the time the husband spends begging." – Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

[Flangepart]

[Flangepart]

[lester1/2jr]

"When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour."

Revelation 8:1

something about that line is so random

[indianasmith]

Some would say that proves there will be no women in heaven . . . 

[Flangepart]

Some would say that proves there will be no women in heaven . . . 

Two responses...

1: Christ is the 'Lamb' of God, so he gets to open the 'sealed orders' that direct his return to earth, to correct the failure of human rule...the half hour being a pause to let the moment sink in, be my guess...

2: Indy has just ticked off his wife, if she reads this, and he's toast.

[indianasmith]

Correct on both counts . . . or you would be, if my wife ever read this forum!!!

[Javakoala]

Hey, Indy. What's your wife's email address? 

[ER]

"The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past, while every sinner has a future."

---Oscar Wilde

[lester1/2jr]