Obamam

Every day, families sacrifice to live within their means. They deserve a government that does the same."

Mathew Henery

The prospect of losing our opportunities should quicken us to improve them with double diligence

We are apt thus to distrust God's power when visible and ordinary means fail, that is, to trust him no further than we can see him.

when God brings that which is finer to our hands, let us receive it, and be thankful and never murmur if we be reduced to coarse fare, but be content and thankful,

A distrustful fear of wanting ourselves should not hinder us from needful charity to others.

Though our provision be coarse and scanty, though we have neither plenty nor dainty, yet we must give thanks to God for what we have.

In times of tranquillity we must prepare for trouble, for it may arise when we little think of it.

Our real distresses are often much increased by our imaginary ones,

Thomas Palin

- those who have quitted the world, and those who are not yet arrived at it are as remote to each other as the utmost stretch of mortal imagination can conceive.

- When the tongue or the pen let loose in a frenzy of passion, it's the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

- The weaker any cord is, the less will it bear to be stretched, and the worse is the policy to stretch it, unless it's intended to break it.

Mushrooms vs oaks

A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes fifty years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do.
B.C Forbes. (Founder of the Forbes magazine)

Joyce Meyer

One of the worst things that you can do to your children is telling them not to do something that they're watching you do.

How do you test the strength of an anchor?

Expose it to the fury of a storm
Bishop Edward Earl Jenkinsb

Taken from the internet:

Why on earth someone earning 25,000 a year would have bumper stickers supporting a party that gives tax cuts to people making over a million a year is completely beyond me.

Race & prejudice

Taken from "hurricane - ch. Mystery Witness" by James S. Hirsch
Asked by Hull (Prosecutor) to point out the man he saw running down the street, Bradley pointed to Carter.
"Pointing where," judge Larner asked. "Tell us again".
This time Bradley spoke."That Negro right there".
That Negro, indeed. The dividing line of this trial had been clearly drawn, and it cut along race.

Ray Brown, carter Lawyer, in his closing argument ".......Remember what Bradley said. It will remain with me forever for a special reason. I remember...He said "That Negro over there." What is that , an animal? Well, I will tell you, in his voice it was there, and everything around this case revolves around that simple fact. They were Negro.."