Ecumenical Bible Quotes & Sayings

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them. — Jean-Francois Regnard

What does it say?" asked my lord.
"It says, 'Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every morning she said, 'God bless you all the day!' So you see I am quite safe all the time---- — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live. — Lillian Hellman

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer. — Chris Prentiss

The heart," Blaise Pascal said, "has its reasons which reason knows not of. — John Eldredge

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring-clean ... . It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas that he'd mislaid and forgotten ... . There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish? Ted Hughes, "Leftovers," from The Dreamfighter — Cornelia Funke

THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU! — Karen Russell

You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might. — Allie Brosh

I had a professor one time ... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'. — Rich Mullins

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. — Paulo Coelho