“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell
“I began my education at a very early age—in fact, right after I left college.” — Winston Churchill
“I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” — Groucho Marx
“What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.” — J. C. Ryle
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they simply make the best of everything they have.” — Unknown
“[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)
“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
“The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” — La Rochefoucauld
“Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.” — Will Rogers
“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
“Non-Christian investigators of nature are as successful as they are because they work with stolen capital.” — Cornelius Van Til
"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
“Question everything but Scripture.” — Geoff Botkin
“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
“Heaven is eternity in the presence of God through a Mediator. Hell is eternity in the presence of God with no Mediator.” — Tony Reinke
“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
“A lot of men have a wishbone where they ought to have a backbone.” — Unknown
“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” — Martin Luther
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." — Edmund Burke
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.” — St. Augustine
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Sir Richard Steele
“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.” — George Washington
“Thanks, modest girls. Appreciated by a male whose time studying the ground is proportional to each degree of rising temperature.” — Unknown
“I’m not lost.” — Frank Churchill
“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
“If you don’t fear God, you’ll fear everything.” — Dan Horn
“When she married you, she gave you her life to spend. Are you spending your life wisely?” — Dan Horn
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” — C. S. Lewis
“My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.” — C. H. Spurgeon
“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
“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
“Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out.” — Mark Twain
“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
“People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.” — Edmund Burke
“Drag and Drop for Windows users: DRAG your peecee off your desk, and DROP it in the trash.” — some forum member’s tagline
“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
“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
“We should never do what we cannot pray God to bless.” — James Smith
“The very familiarity of blessings sometimes makes us insensible to their value."— J. C. Ryle
“[N]ot one particle remains to man as a ground of boasting. The whole is of God.” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.3.6)
“True education is not giving in the answer, it’s in showing them how to find it.” — Kelly Crawford
“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell
“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
“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
“The measure of a great teacher isn’t what he or she knows; it’s what the students know.” — John C. Maxwell
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” — Jackie Mason
“A ship in the harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for.” — John Shedd
— April 5th, 2012 —
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, a psalm of David.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season and am not silent.
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.