Quotable Quotes


Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German pastor, theologian, martyr, spy was asked in 1943 how it was possible for the Church to sit back and let Hitler seize absolute power. His firm answer: “It was the teaching of cheap grace.”

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance,
 baptism without church discipline, communion without confession,
 absolution without personal confession.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship,
 grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ."
 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We live in a time and culture that not only teaches cheap grace but praises it.

William Carey

Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.
 -- William Carey

Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
  -- Victor Hugo

Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
  -- Thomas Huxley

Theodor Roosvelt

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, 
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; 
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error 
and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, 
the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; 
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, 
if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with 
those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
  -- Theodor Roosvelt

Mike Tyson

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
  -- Mike Tyson

Karl Marx

The death of a child is a tragedy, but the death of a million is just a number.
  -- Karl Marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.








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