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“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.”
― John C. Maxwell

“A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”
― John C. Maxwell

“How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate; they will find you out in the life to come.”
― Billy Graham

“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
― C.S. Lewis

“No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill them; even without help I wish and hope to fulfill them.
― Leo Tolstoy

“No one is pro-abortion. ”
― Barack Obama

“...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.”
― Nelson Mandela

“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
― Abraham Lincoln

“Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.”
― Frank Herbert

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“Why shouldn’t we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.”
― Billy Graham

“You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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