Words of wisdom (and other stuff) that bump around in my head sometimes.
Mark you this Bassanio;
The devil may cite scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Mark you this Bassanio;
The devil may cite scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. The are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. The are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.
- 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
New International Version
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. but it is not this day. A day of wolves and shattered shields when the age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight. By all that you hold dear in this good Earth I bid you stand. Men of the West!
- Aragorn Elessar
The Return of the King
Whenever I get sad I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.
- Barney Stinson
How I Met Your Mother
If anyone consideres himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- James 1:26-27
New International Version
If you're lucky enough to have a good friend and a family that cares, it doesn't have to suck as much. Otherwise my advice is to stand firm for what you believe in until and unless logic and experience prove you wrong. Remember; when the emperor looks naked, the emperor is naked. The truth and a lie are not sort of the same thing. And there's no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza.
- Daria Morgendorfer
Is It College Yet?
Only one life
'Twill soon be past
Only what's done
For Christ will last
- John Calvin
The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory and apes and babboons.
The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory and apes and babboons.
- 1 Kings 10:22
New International Version
Freedom is a state much prized within the realm of civilised society. It is a bond wherewith the savage man may charm the outward hatchments of his soul, and soothe the troubled breast into a magnitude of quiet. It is most precious as a blessed balm, the saviour of princes, the harbinger of happiness, yea, the very stuff and pith of all we hold most dear. What frees the prisoner in his lonely cell, chained within the bondage of rude walls, far from the owl of Thebes
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away
Remind me, Lord, with every decision
Generations are going to reap what I sow
I can pass on a curse or a blessing
to people that I will never know
- Sarah Groves
Generations
Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like a banana
- Groucho Marx
If we are out of our minds, it is for the sake of God. If we are in our right minds, it is for you.
- Groucho Marx
If we are out of our minds, it is for the sake of God. If we are in our right minds, it is for you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:13
New International Version
Love makes the chickens cluck
and the lions roar
and the lions roar
Love makes the world rotate
I tell you love makes the cat meow
and the kettle boil.
and the kettle boil.
Love makes the foetus gestate.
Hey love is such a funny thing.
It makes me feel so funny.
It makes my heart go pitter-patt.
It makes my la frites runny.
Love makes the monkey eep
and the whale go ooooouuuuuup
and the whale go ooooouuuuuup
Love; let me demonstrate.
Love makes the horse go "neigh"
and giraffe go "[nothing]"
and giraffe go "[nothing]"
Love; the opposite of hate.
I tell you love is the opposite of hate.
It is its antonym.
- Shaun Micallef
Shaun Micallef's World Around Him
Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom
or the strong man boast of his strength
or the rich man boast of his riches
But let him who boasts boast about this:
That he understands and knows me,
That I am the LORD, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on Earth,
for in these I delight.
- Jeremiah 9:23-24
New International Version
Complexity haunts me for I am two men
Entrenched in a battle that I'll never win
My discipline fails me. My knowledge, it fools me
But You are my shelter: the strength that I need.
- M.W. Smith
My Will
I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid; afraid of us. You’re afraid of change.
I don’t know the future; I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.
I’m going to hang up this phone and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you; a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.
Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
I don’t know the future; I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.
I’m going to hang up this phone and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you; a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.
Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
- Neo
The Matrix
He is not a man like me that I might answer Him, that we might confront one another in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that His terror might frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of Him, but as it now stands, I cannot.
- Job 9:32-35
New International Version
God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him.
- John Piper
Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.
- Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Serenity
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean.
- Matthew 23:25-26
New International Version
Some things never change, and some things do.
- Captain Niobi
- Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Serenity
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean.
- Matthew 23:25-26
New International Version
Some things never change, and some things do.
- Captain Niobi
The Matrix Reloaded
It is not the actual physical exertion that counts towards a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but by the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.
- St. Francis Xavier
Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving? It’s like when you’re a kid – the first time they tell you that the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it ‘cause everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth; the ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. And the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We’re falling through space you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world and if we let go…
It is not the actual physical exertion that counts towards a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but by the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.
- St. Francis Xavier
Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving? It’s like when you’re a kid – the first time they tell you that the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it ‘cause everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth; the ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. And the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We’re falling through space you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world and if we let go…
That’s who I am.
- The Doctor
Doctor Who
For the good it ended happily. For the bad, unhappily. That is what fiction means.
- Oscar Wild
The Importance of Being Earnest
By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength; for waging a war you need guidance, and for victory many advisors.
- The Doctor
Doctor Who
For the good it ended happily. For the bad, unhappily. That is what fiction means.
- Oscar Wild
The Importance of Being Earnest
By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength; for waging a war you need guidance, and for victory many advisors.
- Proverbs 24:3-6
New International Version
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- John Eldridge
Wild At Heart
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for loose vocabulary.
- James Niccol
It may not feel too classy begging just to eat
But you know who does that? Lassie. And she always gets a treat.
So you wonder what your part is 'cause you're homeless and depressed.
Well, home is where the heart is. So your real home's in your chest.
- Captain Hammer
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing is a million to one. Magicians have calculated that million-to-one shots crop up nine times out of ten.
- Sir Terry Pratchett
Mort
- John Eldridge
Wild At Heart
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for loose vocabulary.
- James Niccol
It may not feel too classy begging just to eat
But you know who does that? Lassie. And she always gets a treat.
So you wonder what your part is 'cause you're homeless and depressed.
Well, home is where the heart is. So your real home's in your chest.
- Captain Hammer
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing is a million to one. Magicians have calculated that million-to-one shots crop up nine times out of ten.
- Sir Terry Pratchett
Mort
