Quotes by Authors - Page 204

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.
C.S. Lewis
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
Søren Kierkegaard
Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.
Ambrose Bierce
Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' 'No' said the priest 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why ' asked the Eskimo earnestly 'did you tell me?'
Annie Dillard
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn
Unlike Christianity which preached a peace that it never achieved Islam unashamedly came with a sword.
Stephen Runciman
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
Laurens van der Post
Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
C.S. Lewis
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Mathew Hale
Christianity with its doctrine of humility of forgiveness of love is incompatible with the state with its haughtiness its violence its punishment its wars.
Leo Tolstoy
Onward Christian soldiers Marching as to war With the cross of Jesus Going on before.
Sabine Baring-Gould
All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.
Thomas à Kempis
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Michael Bruce
Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.
John Holt
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.
Carl Jung
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
Benjamin Spock
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.
Hodding Carter
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley
What's done to children they will do to society.
Karl Menninger
If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.
Dorothy Law Nolte
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
Eleanor Farjeon
William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
Maurice Sendak
Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish allusions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde
It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
John Hay
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
R. H. Dana
When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.
Anonymous
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
William Thackeray
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Miguel de Cervantes
I exhort you to be of good cheer.
Anonymous
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
Anita Brookner
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
Anonymous
The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo
Human improvement is from within outward.
James Froude
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
When wealth is lost nothing is lost When health is lost something is lost When character is lost all is lost!
Anonymous
Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
Karl Menninger
He liked to like people therefore people liked him.
Mark Twain
Too often when conscience tries to speak the line seems to be busy.
Anonymous
Conscience is a treacherous thing and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.
Margaret Lane
The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.
Anonymous
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back.
Anonymous
I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.
Woody Allen
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Ashley Montagu
Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.
William Saroyan
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
Anonymous
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anonymous
Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
John Barth
If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.
D L Moody