Quotes and Sayings

Quotes and Sayings (September 2026)

Editor’s Note: Inclusion of quotes does not constitute an endorsement of everything the quote author teaches or believes.  “There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus “Life starts all over again when it gets…

Quotes & Sayings (August 2026)

Editor’s Note: Inclusion of quotes does not constitute an endorsement of everything the quote author teaches or believes.  “This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.” — Martin Luther  “The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.” — A.W. Tozer  “To be grateful…

Quotes & Sayings (July 2026)

“The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.” — Charles H. Spurgeon “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” — Albert Schweitzer “Setting an example…

Quotes and Sayings (August 2025)

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.” — Abraham Lincoln “First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.” — Epictetus “Enthusiasm for one’s goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.” — Thomas Eakins “There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and…

Quotes and Sayings (July 2025)

“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.” — Pierre Corneille “I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most to them.” — Pliny the Younger “Alms-giving…

Quotes and Sayings (June 2025)

“It’s only when you grow up and step back from him—or leave him for your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.” – Margaret Truman “A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” – Unknown “Dads are most ordinary men turned by…

Quotes and Sayings (May 2025)

“I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.” — John Wesley “What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.” — John Wesley “The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad…

Quotes and Sayings (April 2025)

“Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee, All things are passing, God changeth never.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Between two stools one sits on the ground.” — French proverb “A door must either be shut or open.” — Anonymous  “Necessity is the mother of taking chances.” — Mark Twain “Freedom is nothing else but…

Quotes and Sayings (March 2025)

“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” — Doug Larson “The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.” — Henry Van Dyke “Music comes from an icicle as it melts,…

Quotes and Sayings (February 2025)

“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything” — Bil Keane “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never…

Quotes and Sayings (January 2025)

“He who reflects too much will achieve little.” — J.C.F. von Schiller “The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.” — Publilius Syrus “Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.” — Bobby Bragan “Facts are stubborn…

Quotes and Sayings (December 2024)

“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” – Washington Irving “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” – Peg…

Quotes and Sayings (November 2024)

“Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.” — Elizabeth Bowen “A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.” — Napoleon Bonaparte “Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.” — Vauvenargues “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear…

Quotes and Sayings (October 2024)

“Get as much experience as you can, so that you’re ready when luck works. That’s the luck.” — Henry Fonda “Luck is the residue of design.” — Branch Rickey “Chance usually favors the prudent man.” — Joseph Joubert “Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson “If you would have…

Quotes and Sayings (September 2024)

“Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless.” — Admiral Chester W. Nimitz “Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.” — Theodore Roosevelt “Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.” — Sir William Gurney Benham “Nothing is easier than self-deceit.” — Demosthenes “One may understand the cosmos, but…

Quotes and Sayings (August 2024)

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” — Goethe “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the…

Quotes and Sayings (July 2024)

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” — Washington Irving “Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven’t even begun to live.” — William P. Merrill “A useless life is an early death.” — Johann von Goethe “The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without…

Quotes and Sayings (June 2024)

“The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They’re not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion—to care about people and about your children.” — Denzel Washington “Lately all my friends are worried they’re turning into their fathers. I’m worried I’m not.” — Dan Zevin “Daddies don’t just love their children…

Quotes and Sayings (May 2024)

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” ― Victor Hugo “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” ― Erich Fromm “Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them.” ― Karen…

Quotes and Sayings (April 2024)

“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” — Vladimir Nabokov “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis…

Quotes and Sayings (March 2024)

“The man who doesn’t read his Bible has no advantage over the man who has no Bible.” — Albert M. Wells, Jr. “He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.” — Latin proverb “It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” — General Douglas MacArthur “Morale is the…

Quotes and Sayings (February 2024)

“The essence of true nobility is the neglect of self.” — James Froude “All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than one lovely action.” — James Russell Lowell “Giving is the secret to living fully while you are still alive.” — Douglas M. Lawson “Kind words are the music of the world.” —…

Quotes and Sayings (January 2024)

“An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.” — Earl Wilson “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.” — Hal Borland “With…

Quotes and Sayings (December 2023)

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” — Unknown “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James “I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I…

Quotes and Sayings (November 2023)

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.” — Henry Ward Beecher “We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.” — A.W. Tozer “He that well and rightly considereth his own works…

Quotes and Sayings (October 2023)

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” — Samuel Butler “Wise men…

Quotes and Sayings (September 2023)

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” – Socrates “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I…

Quotes and Sayings (August 2023)

“The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.” — Frank Swinnerton “Much pleasure and little grief is every man’s desire.” — Spanish proverb “Without duty, life is soft and boneless.” — Joseph Joubert “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the…

Quotes and Sayings (July 2023)

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his…

Quotes and Sayings (June 2023)

“I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.” — Liza Minnelli “No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.” — Abraham Lincoln “A father is neither an anchor to hold…

Quotes and Sayings (May 2023)

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” ― Zig Ziglar “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ― Arthur C. Clarke “Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.…

Quotes and Sayings (April 2023)

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” — Leo Tolstoy “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” — Henry David Thoreau “If people…

Quotes and Sayings (March 2023)

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” — George S. Patton “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” — Ernest Hemingway “I firmly believe that any man’s finest…

Quotes and Sayings (February 2023)

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde “When you love someone, you love the whole person as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy “One words frees us of all the…

Quotes and Sayings (January 2023)

“You know how I always dread the whole year? Well this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” — Charlie Brown (George Shultz) “Ring out the false, ring in the true.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you…

Quotes and Sayings (December 2022)

“The beginning of men’s rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.” — Francis Schaeffer “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’” — William A. Ward “Seeds of discouragement will not grow in a thankful heart.” — Anonymous “A thankful heart…

Quotes and Sayings (November 2022)

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tulles Cicero “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” — Henry Van Dyke “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my…

Quotes and Sayings (October 2022)

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz “There is…

Quotes and Sayings (September 2022)

“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.” — Letitia Landon “There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.” — Anatole France “Sometimes one pays most for the…

Quotes and Sayings (August 2022)

“The study of God’s Word for the purpose of discovering God’s will is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters.” — James W. Alexander “The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.” — Dwight L. Moody “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than…

Quotes and Sayings (July 2022)

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” — George Herbert “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” — Jim Valvano “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” — Frank A. Clark “If…

Quotes and Sayings (June 2022)

“Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious.” — Virgil “The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.” — James Russell Lowell “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain “What one has,…

Quotes and Sayings (May 2022)

“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” — W.S. Ross “All that I am, or hope to be,…

Quotes and Sayings (April 2022)

“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.” — William Jennings Bryan “I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough,…

Quotes and Sayings (March 2022)

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.” — Jean Rostand “To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.” — Publilius Syrus “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” — Abraham Lincoln “Putting off an easy thing makes it…

Quotes and Sayings (February 2022)

“February is the shortest month, so if you’re having a miserable month, try to schedule it for February.” ― Lemony Snickett “February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.” ― Hunter S. Thompson “While it is…

Quotes and Sayings (January 2022)

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” — Aristotle “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand…

Quotes and Sayings (December 2021)

[206 words] “New Year — A new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” — Alex Morritt “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to…

Quotes and Sayings (November 2021)

[190 words] “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” — Burton Hills “If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” — Bob…

Quotes and Sayings (October 2021)

[326 words] “Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” — Henry Ward Beecher “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to…

Quotes and Sayings (September 2021)

“Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.” — C.S. Lewis “To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau…

Quotes and Sayings (August 2021)

[238 words] “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas Edison “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” ― Elisabeth Elliot “We need never shout across the…

Quotes and Sayings (July 2021)

[327 words] “America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” — Evan Esar “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” — B.F. Skinner “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to…

Quotes and Sayings (June 2021)

[285 words] “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the…

Quotes and Sayings (May 2021)

“If there is a hypocrite between you and the church, then he is closer to God than you are.” “Horse sense comes from a stable mind.” “You’ll never get ahead of the person you try to get even with.” “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of…

Quotes and Sayings (April 2021)

“The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” — C.S. Lewis “I’m not afraid of the devil. The devil…

Quotes and Sayings (March 2021)

“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” — Henry David Thoreau “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if…

Quotes and Sayings (February 2021)

“There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread;…

Quotes and Sayings (January 2021)

“Prayer is not a hard requirement – it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.” — Charles Spurgeon “The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a…

Quotes and Sayings (December 2020)

“If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” — Bob Hope “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” — Shirley Temple “It’s true, Christmas can feel like…

Quotes and Sayings (November 2020)

“More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.” — Will Rogers “For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.” — Elie Wiesel “To speak gratitude is courteous and…

Quotes and Sayings (October 2020)

“Nature gives to every time and season unique beauty; from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it’s just a succession of changes so soft and comfortable that we hardly notice the progress.” — Charles Dickens “There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky, which through the summer…

Quotes and Sayings (September 2020)

[266 words] “A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” — Vincent Van Gogh “I would…

Quotes and Sayings (August 2020)

[184 words] “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” ― John Muir “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” ― Benjamin Franklin “It’s not the…

Quotes and Sayings (July 2020)

[227 words] “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ― John Lubbock “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels…

Quotes and Sayings (June 2020)

[242 words] “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” — Jim Valvano “A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” — Steve Martin “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” — William Shakespeare…

Quotes and Sayings (April 2020)

[230 words] “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” — Mark Twain “Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.” — …

Quotes and Sayings (March 2020)

“We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can’t control the weather or the economy, and we can’t control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control–we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.”…

Quotes and Sayings (February 2020)

[243 words] “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” — Margaret Atwood “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” Laura Ingalls Wilder “There is something infinitely healing in the…

Quotes and Sayings (January 2020)

“A simple “I love you” means more than money.” — Frank Sinatra “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” — Lord…

Quotes and Sayings (December 2019)

[214 words] “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — Bill Vaughan “We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.” — John Greenleaf Whittier “Now there are more overweight people in…

Quotes and Sayings (October 2019)

[244 words] “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” — Benjamin Franklin “Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” — Henry Ward Beecher “There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is…

Quotes and Sayings (August 2019)

[225 words] “My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years.” — Paul Merton “My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.” — Norm Crosby “In youth we learn; in age we understand.” —…

Quotes and Sayings (July 2019)

[315 words] “Independence Day: freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower “We on this continent should never forget that men first…

Quotes and Sayings (June 2019)

Quotes and Sayings “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” — Charles Wadsworth “A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.” — Carol Coats “Daddies don’t just love their children every…

Quotes and Sayings (April 2019)

[151 words] “The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.” — Kelvin “It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.” — Jerome “Seed kept in the barn doesn’t do any good. The church must plant!”…