Christ-ology (Centered on Christ)
“If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.”
-Amy Charmichael
“If I wonder why something trying is allowed, and press for prayer that it may be removed; if I cannot be trusted with any disappointment, and cannot go in peace under any mystery, then I know nothing of Calvary love.“
-Amy Charmichael
“What I believe about God has often meant to be in trouble with men.”
-A.W. Tozer
“If you are eager for real joy, such as you may think over and sleep upon, I am persuaded that no joy of growing wealthy, no joy of increasing knowledge, no joy of influence over your fellow creatures; no joy of any other sort, can ever compare with the rapture of saving a soul from death and helping to restore your lost brothers and sisters to our great Father’s house.”
-C.H. Spurgeon
“Whatever is done without heart is done in the dark no matter how scriptural it may appear”
-A.W. Tozer
“Its not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.”
-Mother Theresa
The Bible does not explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obedience and hence for God’s satisfaction.”
-D.L. Moody
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining annonymous.”
-Albert Einstein
“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
-C. T. Studd
“One design of God in the gospel, is to bring us to make God the object of our undivided respect that he may engross our regard every way, that whatever natural inclination there is in us, he may be the center of it, and that God may be all in all.”
-Jonathan Edwards
“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”
-St Francis of Assisi
Prayer
“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
-Victor Hugo
Dreams
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”
-T.E. Lawrence
“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”
-A.W. Tozer
“Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.”
-Herbert Kaufman
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
“I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to have the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Vision
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”
-Hellen Keller
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
-Corrie Ten Boom
“It is more important to know where we are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.”
-Mabel Newcomber
“You see things and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’ “
-George Bernard Shaw
“In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companion: know that you are alone in the world.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Success
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds”
-Albert Einstein
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
-Elbert Hubbart
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spend doing nothing. “
-George Bernard Shaw
“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.”
-Albert Einstein
Character
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleaved, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
-Helen Keller
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
-Marcel Proust
“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”
-Thomas Kempis
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“The worst sin toward fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you also have an obligation to be one.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”
-Thomas Fuller
“You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.”
-Nelson Mandela
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster – For when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. “
-Nietzsche
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
-Winston Churchill
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
-Leopold Stokowski
“To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better. “
-Tryon Edwards
Age
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
-Victor Hugo
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
-Abraham Lincoln
Freedom
“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
-Abraham Lincoln
Relationships
“I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Women and men have to fight together to change society – and both will benefit… Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.”
-Muriel Fox
“There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. “
-Rod Sterling
Perseverance
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ‘Certainly I can!; — and get busy and find out how to do it.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”
-Helen Keller
Teaching
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
-Albert Einstein
“A child miseducated is a child lost.”
-John Kennedy
Quotes from Movies
“The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.”
-Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight (2008)
“I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. Now, now… Here’s looking at you kid. “
-Rick Blaine to Ilsa Lund, Casablanca (1942)
“Momma always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. “
-Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump (1994)
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. “
-Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight (2008)
“What we do in life echoes in eternity”
-General Maximus Decimus Meridius to his troops at the eve of battle, Gladiator (2000)
“You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home”
-Apollo 13 (1995)
“Nobody gets left behind.”
-Black Hawk Down (2001)
“Here’s looking at you, kid”
-Casablanca (1942)
“Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turn out that way.”
-Sergeant Eversmann, Black Hawk Down (2001)
“We’ll always have Paris.”
-Casablanca (1942)
Priam: [kneels, kisses Achilles' hands]
Achilles: Who are you?
Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
Achilles: [realizes, stands abruptly] Priam? How did you get in here?
Priam: I know my country better than the Greeks, I think.
Achilles: [walks forward, lifts Priam] You are a brave man. I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eye.
Priam: Do you really think death frightens me now? I watched my eldest son die, watched you drag his body behind your chariot. Give him back to me. He deserves a proper burial, you know that. Give him to me.
Achilles: He killed my cousin.
Priam: He thought it was you. How many cousins have you killed? How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands? How many, brave Achilles?
…
Priam: My son deserves a proper burial.
Achilles: Even if I let you have him, we will still be enemies in the morning.
Priam: You are still my enemy tonight, but even enemies can show respect.
Conversation between Priam, King of Troy and Achilles – request for a decent burial – -Troy (2004)
[first lines] Odysseus:[voiceover] Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?
[last lines] Odysseus: [voiceover] If they ever tell my story, let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.
-Troy (2004)
Two-Face: It was your men, your plan!
The Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just… do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon’s got plans. You know, they’re schemers. Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I’m not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So, when I say… Ah, come here.
[takes Dent's hand into his own]
The Joker: When I say that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal, you know that I’m telling the truth. It’s the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer, you had plans, and look where that got you.
[Dent tries to grab the Joker]
The Joker: I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know… You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan.” But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
[Joker hands Two-Face a gun and points it at himself]
The Joker: Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair!
[still holding the gun, Two-Face pauses and takes out his coin]
Two-Face: [showing the unscarred side] You live.
The Joker: Mm-hmm.
Two-Face: [flips, showing the scarred side] You die.
The Joker: Mmm, now we’re talking.
-The Dark Knight (2008)
*this page will be updated from time to time with more quotes that inspire me*
