• “People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.” — J. C. Ryle

• “Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.” — Elias Boudinot

• “A lot of men have a wishbone where they ought to have a backbone.” — Unknown

• “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” — C. S. Lewis

• “Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out.” — Mark Twain

• “[N]ot one particle remains to man as a ground of boasting. The whole is of God.” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.3.6)

• “Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your own living room by people you wouldn’t have in your house.” — David Frost

• “TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book.” — Unknown

• “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” — Groucho Marx

• “People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.” — Edmund Burke

• "When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy." — Corrie ten Boom

• “A ship in the harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for.” — John Shedd

• “[T]he ministry of Satan is employed to instigate the reprobate, whenever the Lord, in the course of his providence, has any purpose to accomplish in them...” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.4.5)

• “If you don’t fear God, you’ll fear everything.” — Dan Horn

• “True education is not giving in the answer, it’s in showing them how to find it.” — Kelly Crawford

• “Non-Christian investigators of nature are as successful as they are because they work with stolen capital.” — Cornelius Van Til

• “Drag and Drop for Windows users: DRAG your peecee off your desk, and DROP it in the trash.” — some forum member’s tagline

• “Heaven is eternity in the presence of God through a Mediator. Hell is eternity in the presence of God with no Mediator.” — Tony Reinke

• “I began my education at a very early age—in fact, right after I left college.” — Winston Churchill

• “Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.” — Will Rogers

• “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell

• “People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell

• “The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” — La Rochefoucauld

• “Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.” — Paxton Hood

• “Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.” — George Washington

• “Man does not need to know exhaustively in order to know truly and certainly.” — Cornelius Van Til

• “The cold water of persecution is often thrown on the church’s face to fetch her to herself when she is in a swoon of indolence or pride.” — C. H. Spurgeon

• “Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” — Martin Luther

• “When she married you, she gave you her life to spend. Are you spending your life wisely?” — Dan Horn

• “Luther once said, ‘The devil hates goose quills,’ and, doubtless, he has good reason, for ready writers, by the Holy Spirit’s blessing, have done his kingdom much damage.” — C. H. Spurgeon

• “Self-righteousness is being more aware of and irritated by the sins of others than you are conscious of and grieved by your own.” — Paul Tripp

• “What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.” — J. C. Ryle

• “I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.” — John Knox

• “We should never do what we cannot pray God to bless.” — James Smith

• “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Sir Richard Steele

• “Question everything but Scripture.” — Geoff Botkin

• “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they simply make the best of everything they have.” — Unknown

• “I’m not lost.” — Frank Churchill

• “One proud, surly, lordly word, one needless contention, one covetous action, may cut the throat of many a sermon. Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine.” — Richard Baxter

• “The very familiarity of blessings sometimes makes us insensible to their value."— J. C. Ryle

• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.” — St. Augustine

• “My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.” — C. H. Spurgeon

• “Thanks, modest girls. Appreciated by a male whose time studying the ground is proportional to each degree of rising temperature.” — Unknown

• “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” — Jackie Mason

• “The measure of a great teacher isn’t what he or she knows; it’s what the students know.” — John C. Maxwell

• “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
 — Edmund Burke

• “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” 
— Martin Luther

• “Paul’s life was a prophetic book for Jews to read and see how to be saved, so our lives should be an easy to read book for the lost on how they can easily be saved.” — Ken Ham

— February 29th, 2012 —

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Simple Gifts,” by Steven Sharp Nelson & Jon Schmidt

These guys are awesome.
 

Posted on February 29th, 2012 by Kyle Shepherd | Tags: ,music, Schmidt & Nelson |

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