Quotes

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
– Corrie Ten Boom

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
– Corrie Ten Boom

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– St. Augustine

“When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is…still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”
— Valery Legasov, Chernobyl, Miniseries: Open Wide, O Earth

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
— Cicero

“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.”
— F.A. Hayek

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”
— Isaac Newton

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.”
Psalm 19:1-3

“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth, and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: who is to blame?”
— Valery Legasov, Chernobyl, Miniseries: Open Wide, O Earth

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”

“Everything is negotiable. Except physics.”
— Rands

“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”
– Corrie Ten Boom

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
— Isaac Newton

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
— Isaac Newton