Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

He used to talk to farmers about corn and mustard, wheat and tares, sheep and goats, and such like matters, all purely agricultural, and which they thoroughly understood. He used to talk to fishermen about matters widely different, and such as belonged to their craft—nets and fishes; to gardeners about vines and fig trees; to women about domestic matters, such as come within their province—kneading dough and sweeping houses. By means of these familiar figures He teaches lessons unheard of before—lessons of Divine wisdom, of supreme value, of sweet interest, of infinite love, and of eternal importance. ~ Griffith Thomas

Quotable

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Someone once said …

Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.
– The Defender

Quotable Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms …  disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes …  Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Reference: The Commonplace Book, Jefferson (298-316)

Quote on prayer

The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this or that danger. The last and highest result of prayer is the knowledge of God — the knowledge which is eternal life — and by that knowledge, the transformation of human character, and of the world.
~ George John Blewett

Quotables

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
– Jacques Maritain

Quotable thoughts

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
— Elbert Hubbard

Quotable Eric Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
— Eric Hoffer

Quotable Gibbons

We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
— Euell Gibbons

Quotable big shot

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
— Frederick the Great