My favourite quotations

1. "If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent Him." Walter Wink

2. Suppose we hear an unknown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men said he was too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness, some lamented his leanness; some thought him too dark, and some too fair. One explanation . . . would be that he might be an odd shape. But there is another explanation. He might be the right shape. . . . Perhaps (in short) this extraordinary thing is really the ordinary thing; at least the normal thing, the centre.
G. K. Chesterton

3. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
Hudson Taylor

4. THE SKY
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity.
John Ruskin

5. Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
Simone Weil

6. "Omnipotence which can lay its hand so heavily upon the world can also make its touch so light that the creature receives independence."
Soren Kierkegaard

7. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr(1929-1968)

8. Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
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9. Success is not a destination, its a journey.
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10. Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
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11. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dahlberg, first Baron Acton) 1834-1902

12. No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and
thought is viscous.
‘The Education of Henry Adams’ Henry Brooks Adams

13. A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the
concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their
observation.
‘The Spectator’ no. 291, 2 February 1712. Joseph Addison

14. Through all Eternity to Thee
A joyful Song I’ll raise,
For oh! Eternity’s too short
To utter all thy Praise.
‘The Spectator’ no. 453, 9 August 1712 Joseph Addison

15. The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar 1897-1980

16. But it’s a long, long while
From May to December;
And the days grow short
When you reach September.
‘September Song’ (1938 song; music by Kurt Weill)
Maxwell Anderson

17. God be in my head,
And in my understanding;
God be in my eyes,
And in my looking;
God be in my mouth,
And in my speaking;
God be in my heart,
And in my thinking;
God be at my end,
And at my departing.
‘Sarum Missal’

18. God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
No more water, the fire next time.
‘Home in that Rock’ (Negro spiritual)

19. I’ll sing you twelve O.
Green grow the rushes O.
What is your twelve O?
Twelve for the twelve apostles,
Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven,
Ten for the ten commandments,
Nine for the nine bright shiners,
Eight for the eight bold rangers,
Seven for the seven stars in the sky,
Six for the six proud walkers,
Five for the symbol at your door,
Four for the Gospel makers,
Three for the rivals,
Two, two, the lily-white boys,
Clothed all in green O,
One is one and all alone
And ever more shall be so.
‘The Dilly Song’, in G. Grigson ‘The Faber Book of Popular Verse’. Revd S. Baring-Gould and Revd H. Fleetwood Sheppard ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ (1891) no. 78 for a variant version

20. Great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.
Albert Einstein from The world as I see it

21. Duhthusam i chih lametna ahikei. I lamet phaklouh thilte duhthu a kisam ahizaw.
V L Mangzou

22. A promise made is a debt unpaid.

23. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society.The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw

24. Some people bear three kinds of trouble—the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. H G Wells

25. There is no heart too polluted for Jesus Christ to purify.

26. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

27. Treasure the present. Bury the pasts and regret none. For life is a process... until it ends. Surely. Lealyan Thawmte