The best way of telling the difference between those two opposites—righteousness and self-righteousness—is that righteousness has a sense of humour. Self righteousness never does.
- Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. ~Lynn Lavner
"There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary working people can accomplish if they are given the encouragement and the incentive to do their best." Sam Walton
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. --Magellan
Only by being willing to find out where someone is really coming from, are we able to get to know and relate to others and find out that we just might like that person we thought was so weird before.
Only by recognising someone else's past hurts in life, and being able to recognise that we are just as capable of sinning as they are, are we able to forgive their present hurts to us.
"Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but live in fear of its own potential." -unknown
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
If you do not like the issues that are occurring in your life, check your heart for the issues of life procede from the heart.
Bible paraphrased.
I was out in the yard weed eating; out in the yard it's not what's already been weed-eated that you see, it's what has [not] been weed eated that you see. Ever wonder why that is? So we insist; see the good in others and compliment them on it rather than seeing the inconsistancies around the edges so readily. I am speaking to myself. It's the weed eating lesson of the hour.
This message has been edited by doug-64 on Jun 30, 2008 12:08 PM
"When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself."
Mark Twain
I believe this quote could apply to most Mennonites.
"Government's view of the economy could be
summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
-- Ronald Reagan (1986)
As fear is the principle of despotism, so tranquillity is its end; but tranquillity is not peace, it is only the silence of the towns as they await the enemy invasion. - Montequieu
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