And I quote...

[Rev. Powell]

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."--Thomas Paine

[pacman000]

"I read the Bible through from cover to cover four times during my sophomore year in college for the explicit purpose of finding scientific contradictions in it. By that, I mean statements in the Bible that were false that I could throw back at her to show her how ridiculous it was to believe in God. I had even decided to write a book called All the Stupidity of the Bible. Something amazing happened as I did this. As I considered and thought about these things, I found that I could not find a contradiction — to find some kind of scientific inaccuracy in the Bible. I just simply was not able to do it. I gave up writing the book because of lack of material! It is amazing to me that as I talk to people, I find many who claim to be Christians and who perhaps claim to have been Christians for many years who have not read the Bible through cover to cover once. I find it hard to believe that they believe in God very much if they do not even want to know what he has to say."

https://www.doesgodexist.org/AboutClayton/PastLife.html

[Rev. Powell]

[ER]

"Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder."
---Oscar Wilde, of course

[pacman000]

A bit long, but here it goes:

IF—

If you can keep your head when all about you
⁠Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
⁠But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
⁠Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
⁠And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;


If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
⁠If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
⁠And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
⁠Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
⁠And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;


If you can make one heap of all your winnings
⁠And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
⁠And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
⁠To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
⁠Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'


If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
⁠Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
⁠If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
⁠With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
⁠And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling, 1895. Published in 1910.

[ER]

"The object of liberty, is life."
---G. K. Chesterton

[ER]

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

― C.S. Lewis

[indianasmith]

"Men are most inclined to believe that which they wish to be true."  - Gaius Julius Caesar

[ER]

They say laughter is the best medicine, but if you go around laughing for no reason, you might need medicine.

--Unknown

[pacman000]

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."

Proverbs 28:1, KJV

[pacman000]

"I feel beat, & I'm not even part of that generation."

[Rev. Powell]

[indianasmith]

"I wouldn't want to live in a country where a dead pimp couldn't get elected to Congress!"  - Zoe Pittsinger, a former student of mine.

[RCMerchant]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix.

http://youtu.be/vZuFq4CfRR8

[pacman000]

"We'rwe aww pwathetic & cweepy & can't get girwls; that's why we fwight wobots."

-The Big Bang Theory, Season 2, Episode 12