Favorite Quotes
This is a compilation of some of my favorite quotes in no particular order. Maybe I’ll organize them someday.
“People and situations do not determine our behavior; they provide the occasion where our behavior reveals our hearts.” -Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Nietzsche
“Be a victor, not a victim” – Patricia Ennis
“Of course I know that the Enemy also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that He really likes the little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctness of every one of them. When He talks of their losing their selves, He only means abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I’m afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever. Hence, while He is delighted to see them sacrificing even their innocent wills to His, He hates to see them drifting away from their own nature for any other reason. And we should always encourage them to do so.” – from The Screwtape Letters
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” – Edmund Burke
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” Oscar Wilde
” The bind that Satan has on you is not an addiction to drugs or sex, but it is an addiction to mediocrity. This is one of the major spiritual battles of your time.”
- Dr. Jack Simons
“Ah, 90% of the people in this world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contamination.” – Horace Vandergelder
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo DaVinci