Wit Quotes - Page 11

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.

Life without music is unthinkable.

My conversations with God always seem leave him speechless.

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

You will never understand pleasure without pain.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

If you don't go within, you go without.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

It`s important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

If a man does his best, what else is there?

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.