Library in Prague, Czech Republic

The following randomly selected quotes might give you pause to apply some of your wonderful critical thinking.  

Please share the thoughts of some very wise folks.

Editor – September 27, 2024

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.” – Thomas Paine

“Not to forgive is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemies to die from it.” – Nelson Mandela

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite.” – Federalist 45

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling…The Lord of hosts is with us.” – Psalm 46

“For personal survival, find a way to live outside of ‘tyranny of the ego’.” – Bishop Robert Barron

“Minds trained to scientific methods are less likely to be led by mere appeal to the passions or by blind emotional excitement to sanction acts which in the end may lead to social disaster.”- Karl Pearson, 1900

“For personal survival, find a way to live outside of ‘tyranny of the ego’.” – Bishop Robert Barron

“The highest privileges of man are to talk to God.” – Herb Vander Lugt

“Minds trained to scientific methods are less likely to be led by mere appeal to the passions or by blind emotional excitement to sanction acts which in the end may lead to social disaster.”- Karl Pearson, 1900

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!  For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” – Patrick Henry

“If ‘we the people’ are unable to defend the Constitution, then the Constitution is unable to defend us.” – Lathan Watts

“Comfort is the worst addiction.” – Marcus Aurelius

“30 AD, Breaking News: Local carpenter continues to spread disinformation deemed harmful by religious experts.”

“It’s a sad world when you’re 7-year-old son can’t pretend he’s an Indian, but a grown man can pretend that he’s a woman.” – Unknown

“Despite all of our accomplishments we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Unknown

“The Ten Cannots:

  1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
  2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
  3. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
  4. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
  5. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
  6. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
  7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
  8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
  9. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
  10. And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.” – William J. H. Boetcker, 1916

“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire

“Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom.” – Marie von Ebner

“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” – C.S. Lewis

“We have a choice this November 2024, between two candidates, but we have no choice between an Empire and a Republic.” – Bruce Fein

Biblical judgement:

Justice: getting what I deserve. (the book thrown at me)

Mercy: not getting what I do deserve. (not throwing the book at me)

Grace: getting what I don’t deserve: undeserved kindness

 

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.

With such a people, you can do whatever you want.” —Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)

“Freedom of the press, it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.” George Orwell

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell

“Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” – Ronald Reagan

“When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s tool.” – Socrates

“The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.” – Jeff Bezos

“Humanity hasn’t advanced much as sacrificing children by killing them was the custom 3000 years ago and was renewed in the early 20th century by Margret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood and is alive and well into the 21st.” – Michael Kapic- reference 2 Chronicles 28:3

“In the reckoning of men there is always a deficit; in the arithmetic of God, there is always a surplus.” – Fulton Sheen on the loaves and fishes.

“This is the reply by university chancellor who was asked by a student why he couldn’t get a school loan instead of a government loan: ‘Without no-fault financing, we would have to insist that students learn; and we’d have to teach stuff that would result in graduates earning a living…if we expect to get paid.’” – Unknown Truth

“If your hatred for one man is greater than your love for our country, you are officially part of the problem.” – Unknown

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” – Thomas Paine

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan

“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” – T. Harv Eker

On climate change: “Too cold, it’s the fault of human activity; too hot, it’s the fault of human activity. The key to understanding this mentality is to realize that the groups making such claims are watermelons. Green on the outside, red on the inside.” – Jack in Silver Spring.

Interview with Dr. Judith Curry: Relax…there is no Climate Emergency: 38min: https://youtu.be/i4YUnZIKneY

Jesus said, “Whoever becomes rich should become a ruler, and whoever has power should renounce it.” Gospel of Thomas #81 [possible interpretation: having the knowledge necessary to reach the top but then finding it wanting.] [see James Madison’s Q: if men were angels, government would not be required]

“I want to be so anchored in Christ that chaos around me does not produce chaos within me.” – @seedsofchrist

“Evil is still evil, even if everyone is doing it. God is still God, even if no one believes.” – Unknown

“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“The i-phone would not exist today (or probably the other iterations) if Steve Jobs Mom, after being called in, had not changed her mind. She stood and walked out the front door of the Planned Parenthood clinic instead of down the hall to the killing room where the tools of death awaited him.” – Steve Jobs

“Democrats to “democracy” is like Can of Balls to “cannibals.” – Unknown

“What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?” – Thomas Sowell

“Maturity is when you learn to stop trying to change others and instead focus on changing yourself.” – Unknown

“Why do a few with a large megaphone fear the solution that actually made America? Why don’t they fear the institutions that are tearing it apart? Because they’re apart of the destruction! Follow the money!” – Michael Kapic

“Those who murder the unborn cannot be trusted to govern the born.” – Seth Gruber

“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.” – John Wesley

“Free speech is only relevant if we allow people that you don’t like to say things that you don’t like.” – Elon Musk

“In what world does this make sense? Paying taxes on money you make, taxes on money you spend, and taxes on things you own, that you already paid taxes on, with already taxed money.” – Unknown

“Remember, the crowd chose Barabbas—not because they loved him, but because they hated the Truth.” – Unknown

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.” – Thomas Sowell

“’Every high civilization decay by forgetting obvious things’ – G.K. Chesterton. For example, Males have a penis, testes, and can produce sperm, while Females have a vagina, ovaries, uterus, and can produce eggs. This is a basic principle of Biology.”

“Capitalism has been the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, and has opened the field for human ingenuity and talent.” –  Ayn Rand

“Jesus said, ‘If someone who’s blind leads someone else who’s blind, both of them [will] fall into a pit.’” – Gospel of Thomas #34

 

“We know they are lying,

They know they are lying,

They know we know they are lying,

We know they know we know they are lying,

But they are still lying.” – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

 

“When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you.” -Margaret Thatcher

Please share. Godspeed to you and God Bless America