Knothe Lux Quotes & Sayings

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. — Paul Gauguin

If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made. — Hermann Bondi

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name. — Shane Claiborne

I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself. — John Wanamaker

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn. — Saint Augustine

People have a way of believing nothing terrible will ever happen to them, only to others. — V.C. Andrews

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. — Mignon McLaughlin

And while I tell him all my thoughts, I don't always share my secrets. — Alex Adams