If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
-Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
-Mark Twain

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-Mark Twain

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.
-Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
-Mark Twain

A great law of human action — in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
-Mark Twain

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
-Phyllis Diller

I never made Who’s Who but I’m featured in What’s That.
-Phyllis Diller

If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.
-Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
-Phyllis Diller

Christians are Holy rebels loose in the world with access to the throne of God. Satan never knows from where the danger will come,
-AW Tozer

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
-AW Tozer

Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.
-AW Tozer

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.
-AW Tozer

If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
-AW Tozer

Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.
-AW Tozer

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
-AW Tozer

We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do–flee it or die upon it.
-AW Tozer

No man is worthy to succeed until he is willing to fail.
-AW Tozer

We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God.
-AW Tozer

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly.
-AW Tozer

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
-AW Tozer

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man’s character.
-AW Tozer

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
-Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
-Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-Helen Keller

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
-Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
-Helen Keller

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller

There ain’t nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that’s selfishness.
-Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
-Will Rogers

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
-Will Rogers

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
-Will Rogers

There’s two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.
-Will Rogers

Always drink upstream from the herd.
-Will Rogers

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
-Will Rogers

Everything is changing, people are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
-Will Rogers

Worry doesn’t prevent disaster; it prevents joy.

From the day I was born ’til I ride in the hearse, there’s nothing so bad that it couldn’t be worse.

Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.

It came to pass, it didn’t come to stay!

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The older I get, the better I was.

To dream of the person you’d like to be is a waste to the person you are.

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.

Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurs to God?

Joy is not the absence of suffering, but the presence of God.

The Lord won’t take you where His grace can’t keep you.

There is no fear in submitting to a love that would die for you.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
-William Booth

Only when revival roots sink deep into the scriptures and draw their nourishment from God’s Word does revival last.
-Charles Finney

The Church must let the world see they will uphold no man in office, who is known to be an adulterer, or a gambler, or a drunkard.
-Charles Finney

A Revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.
-Charles Finney

Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal.
–Andrew Murray

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue.
–Andrew Murray

Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work.
–Andrew Murray

Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success.
–Andrew Murray

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
–Andrew Murray

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
-Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
-Edmund Burke

All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
-Philip Yancey

I leave in God’s hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.
-Philip Yancey

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
-Philip Yancey

God dispenses gifts, not wages.
-Philip Yancey

A man who truly loves God will be inclined to please God.
-Philip Yancey

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
-Blaise Pascal

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
-Blaise Pascal

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
-Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
-Blaise Pascal

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.
-Blaise Pascal

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
-Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
-Blaise Pascal

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
-Blaise Pascal

All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
-Blaise Pascal

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!
-Max Lucado

Next time a sunrise steals your breath remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you.
-Max Lucado

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
-Max Lucado

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
-Max Lucado

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
-Max Lucado

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.
-Max Lucado

No one can pray and worry at the same time.
-Max Lucado

God’s mercies are new every morning. Receive them.
-Max Lucado

The Bible is God’s Word given in man’s language.
-Max Lucado

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.
-Max Lucado

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.
-Max Lucado

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.
-Max Lucado

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.
-Max Lucado

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
-Max Lucado

God is faithful even when his children are not.
-Max Lucado

Find joy in the ordinary.
-Max Lucado

Life is a series of recoveries.
-Mark Lowry

Politics trims the shrub, the Gospel cuts the root.
-Mark Lowry

I hate puns. And, I’m tired of pardoning them.
-Mark Lowry

God thinks you’re worth loving and you don’t get a vote.
-Mark Lowry