religious quotes about strength

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ~Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson* (Thank you, Frank Lynch of SamuelJohnson.com)


I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. ~Wynn Bullock


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken


Only dead fish swim with the stream. ~Malcolm Muggeridge


A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ~Edward Teller


The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children. ~Paul R. Ehrlich


I say me, knowing all the while it's not me. ~Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, 1953


Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall


I take a vitamin every day. It's called a steak. ~Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, Kicking & Screaming, 2005, spoken by the character Buck Weston


He is every other inch a gentleman. ~Rebecca West


As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. ~Edward Gibbon


Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. ~Horace Mann


Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians. ~Franklin P. Jones


Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. ~Oliver Wendell


Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey. ~"Pappy" Maverick, in Maverick Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein


After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy


Men are like a fine wine. They start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. ~Author Unknown


If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~Author Unknown


Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson