Let's do a Psalm 1 with some meditative (thought for the day) quotes from the Contemporary English Version of the bible:

Gen. 25:6 when Abraham died, he left everything to Isaac.

Matthew 19:27
Peter replied, “Remember, we have left everything to be your followers! What will we get?”

Mark 10:28
Peter replied, “Remember, we left everything to be your followers!”

Luke 5:11
The men pulled their boats up on the shore. Then they left everything and went with Jesus.

Luke 5:28
Levi left everything and went with Jesus.

Luke 15:13
Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.

'Also, this has not been said before but I do not feel that we need bible quotes ITT. Some very nice gentlemen already compiled a whole book of quotes and even numbered them for us, everyone has access to them.

If anyone an an issue with this feel free to PM OrP or myself.'

Jibninjas, RGT mod on this very thread...

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear." President Coriolanus Snow, The Hunger Games

William Lane Craig
Time and Eternity

Craig acknowledges in a footnote this isn't original with him.

The first radical!

Source.

Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

Charles Williams - War in Heaven

― Mark Twain

That MJ quote is looney tunes. LOL regurgitated new age mysticism

i disagree.
"regurgitated" implies no originality, and the insinuation that he didn't fully understand the concept he spoke of, when the meaning was quite eloquently and concisely presented.

mystical indeed, as it's quite obvious he had transcended ordinary interpretations of an experience which can only be expressed through parable and metaphor.
it would seem impossible for you to relate..or is it really?

new age? not so much.

and the only thing cartoonish here, is the fact that you are ridiculing quotes in the quote thread, daffy.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Quote:


On September 29, 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich, Bavaria, Germany, to meet the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. He returned to London on October 1st waving the famous piece of paper which he proudly claimed contained the agreement pledging that Germany and Britain would never go to war again, thus guaranteeing "peace with honour."

The public was overjoyed but Churchill, participating in the House of Commons debate on the resolution "that this house approves the policy of His Majesty's Government by which was averted in the recent crisis and supports their efforts to secure a lasting peace," charged that the Government had "sustained a total and unmitigated defeat," and that "a disaster of the first magnitude has befallen Great Britain and France."

"And do not suppose this is the end," he warned. "This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in olden time."

Having thus fortified myself by the example of others, I will proceed to emulate them. I will, therefore, begin by saying the most unpopular and most unwelcome thing. I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget but which I must nevertheless be stated, namely, that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat, and that France has suffered even more than we have . . . .

We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that. It must now be accepted that all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe will make the best terms they can with the triumphant Nazi Power. The system of alliances in Central Europe upon which France has relied for her safety has been swept away, and I can see no means by which it can be reconstituted.

The road down the Danube Valley to the black Sea, the resources of corn and oil, the road which leads as far as Turkey, has been opened. In fact, if not in form, it seems to me that all those countries of Middle Europe, all those Danubian countries, will, one after another, be drawn into this vast system of power politics - not only power military politics but power economic politics -- radiating from Berlin, and I believe this can be achieved quite smoothly and swiftly and will not necessarily entail the firing of a single shot....

I do not grudge our loyal, brave people, who were ready to do their duty no matter what the cost, who never flinched under the strain of last week. I do not grudge them the natural, spontaneous outburst of joy and relief when they learned that the hard ordeal would no longer be required of them at the moment; but they should know the truth. They should know that there has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defences; they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road; they should know that we have passed an awful milestone in our history, when the whole equilibrium of Europe has been deranged, and that the terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies.


"Thou are weighed in the balance and found wanting."

And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."

http://churchill-society-london.org.uk/Munich.html

- George Orwell

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

Herbert Spencer

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift

"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."

Charles Baudelaire

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” – Douglas Adams


"Perception without reason is mere experience, but reason without perception is nothing." unknown

Lol at MJ having anything unique or eloquent to say in his banal and trite lyrics.

Go play in a rainbow, Pollyanna.

fair enough, although his song lyrics are not on trial here, nor is the quote I shared.

I like rainbows, but have no qualms rolling around in the mud of pessimism.
perhaps a truly optimistic quote is something you yearn for..

though it would do this thread wonders if you could grace us with your lyrical prowess..
perhaps you yourself can create an original, insightful quotation that can stand the test of time and criticism..
or not, and we can all enjoy the vast variety of life here in this thread without succumbing to the need to drop snide comments concerning quotes we dislike.

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." -Albert Einstein, in a letter responding to philosopher Eric Gutkind, who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt; quoted from James Randerson, "Childish Superstition: Einstein's Letter Makes View of Religion Relatively Clear: Scientist's Reply to Sell for up to £8,000, and Stoke Debate over His Beliefs" The Guardian, (13 May 2008)

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams

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Matthew 19:26

New International Version (NIV)


26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Please play by the rules Splendour.

I'm not your monkey, Gomer.

Yeah, that's the verse that owns the whole forum.

By all means, nobody on here better read that.

No more absolute statement than "nothing is impossible" is there?


Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn

but i am yours.
so don't hate me cause i'm cute and sweet, hate me cause you can't compete.