2. “The human mind has the capacity to rationalize to itself any and all human actions.” -Michael C. Brannigan
3. "Nature has herself appointed that nothing great is to be accomplished quickly, and has ordained that difficulty should precede every work of excellence..." -Quintillian
4. "For human well-being mostly depends not on what people have but, among other things, on what they do with what they've got." -Daniel M. Haybron
5. "For many of us, the majority opinion constitutes the litmus test of whether something is morally right or wrong. This is logically absurd." -Michael C. Brannigan
6. "Socrates: Is deception easier when there is much difference between things or when there is little?
Phaedrus: When there is little."
-Plato
7. "The Devil loves religion and moralistic teaching." - McKay Caston, Creekstone Church
8. "You can't tell a book by looking at its cover." -English proverb
9. "By their very nature all human beings are greedy for life and hate death, care about their parents, are concerned for their wives and children." -Ssu-ma Ch'ien, circa 100 BC
10. "It doesn't do too dwell on dreams... and to forget to live." -Dumbledore
11. "Failure has been identified as the line of least persistence." -Zig Zigler
12. "The possibility--never the certainty--of good coming from evil always exists." -From the Norton introduction to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry
13. "In the mountains, there you feel free." -T.S. Eliot
14. "In our day and age, critical thinking is at a premium, and if you don't take time to analyze what you hear, you are at the mercy of those with the talent of convincing delivery." -Greg Heil
15. "If we are representatives of the King of kings and Lord of lords and are entrusted with proclaiming his redemptive love and grace, then mediocrity is not an option." -Ken Davis
16. "Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy." - John Piper
17. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." -Romans 12:2
18. "Prayer is the thing that differentiates us from the rest of the world. Our God listens to us." -Francis Chan
19. "The existence of the Bible, as a book for people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced." - Immanuel Kant
20. "For good is simple, evil manifold." -Aristotle
21. "The world is perishing for lack of knowledge of God and the church is famishing of want of his presence. The instant cure for most of our religious ills would be to enter the Presence in spiritual experience, to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us." - A. W. Tozer
22. "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." -E.E. Cummings
23. "In the gospel God reveals the depth of our need for him. He shows us that there is absolutely nothing we can do to come to him. We can't manufacture salvation. We can't program it. We can't produce it. We can't even initiate it. God has to open our eyes, set us free, overcome our evil, and appease his wrath. He has to come to us.
Now we are getting to the beauty of the gospel." -David Platt
24. "Even if Personal Authority is untenable, there could--and would, in my view--be compelling moral reasons for preserving liberal freedoms and limiting state interventions in people's lives." -Daniel M. Haybron
25. "It never gets 'easy,' but then excellence is never easy." -Ken Davis
26. "Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless." -CH Spurgeon
27. "Nothing is more dangerous than human desire in this world." -Zhu Xi
28. "Now happiness more than anything else seems unconditionally complete since we always choose it because of itself, never because of something else." -Aristotle
29. "It will take an eternity to exhaust the glory of Jesus." -John Piper
30. "Thus happiness is neither pleasure nor material nor social gain. It is not something temporary. It is a condition, a state that is enduring." -Michael C. Brannigan
31. "...honor depends more upon the people who pay it than upon the person to whom it is paid." -Aristotle
32. "Passion is the driving force of creativity." -Michael C. Brannigan
33. "Never be afraid to give yourself permission to envision and improve the world in which you live." - Dirt Rag
34. "Contemplating the probable consequences of our choices is not at all the determinant in what constitutes a morally sound choice. In fact, one must act in certain ways regardless of the consequences. Acting out of duty is what really matters. That is, we must act in ways that are consistent with principles." -Michael C. Brannigan on Immanuel Kant
35. "So the ultimate end of man is to understand God, in some fashion." -St. Thomas
36. "I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! I've said it before and I've come to believe it: There's magic in misery." -Dean Karnazes
37. "Throughout our lives we tend to slip into two extremes: deficit and/or excess." -Michael C. Brannigan
38. "What is...sin's essence? Playing God...acting as if you, and your pleasure, were the end to which all things, God included, must be made to function as a means." -J.I. Packer
39. "In all fairness to any thinker, his or her ideas need to be evaluated on their own merit. Nevertheless, we can never truly and radically sever what a person thinks from how that person lives his or her life." -Michael C. Brannigan
40. "You cannot grow and expand your capabilities to their limits without running the risk of failure." -Dean Karnazes
41. "What you love determines what you feel shame about." -Unknown
42. "Writing... [is] a recurring assemblage of words that reminds us what the world is like and invite us to think about what pieces of it we can change." -Michael Wood
43. "Every human being, to some degree, is hiding from the human race. We are all desperately seeking to control what others see of us, rather than allowing anyone to see the full truth. This is the ruin of personal relationships with others." -Tim Keller
44. "Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald." -Chinese Proverbs
45. "But to satisfy the necessities of life is not evil. To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. This is the middle path, O bhikshus, that keeps aloof from both extremes." -The Buddha
46. "How we use our money and how we view our possessions reflects what we hold as priority in our lives." -Unknown
47. "Sin sets up strains in the structure of life which only end in breakdown." -Derek Kidner
48. "Endurance never sleeps." -Dean Karnazes
49. "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John Shedd
50. "Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel we are good--above all, that we are better than someone else--I think we may be sure that we are being acted on not by God but by the devil....If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed." -C.S. Lewis
51. "Stylistic expression is at its essence an act of rebellion, often a necessary one." -Bradway & Hesse
52. "What can't be cured must be endured." -English proverb
53. "There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." -Immanuel Kant
54. "Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted." -Dean Karnazes
55. "The ground of this principle is: rational nature exists as an end in itself. . . . The practical imperative, therefore, is the following: Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only." -Immanuel Kant
56. "Regardless of how distant your dreams may seem, every second counts." -Dean Karnazes
57. "You have to find the excitement in the unknown." -Follies of the Rich Man
58. "Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence." -Aristotle
59. "Think’st thou existence doth depend on time?
It doth; but actions are our epochs." -Manfred
60. "Well-being and happiness, not morality, are probably the first things on most people's minds when they reflect about how they ought to live. They are, after all, largely what makes life worth living." -Daniel M. Haybron
61. "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them." -Mark Twain
62. "Don't wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don't. In the face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together." -Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
63. "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." -Confucius
64. "The root of suffering is attachment." -The Buddha
65. "Always waiting around for the 'right' time is simply wasting time." -Brice Minnigh, Bike Magazine
66. "Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking." -Tim Macmahon
67. "Speech is a powerful lord, which by means of the finest and most invisible body effects the divinest works: it can stop fear and banish grief and create joy and nurture pity." -Gorgias
68. "The best among men do not remember hostilities; they see the virtues, not the faults, and they do not stoop to enmity. It is the lowliest that hurl insults in a quarrel, Yudhisthira; the middling ones return the insults, but the best and the steady ones never babble about hostile insults, spoken or unspoken. The good only remember the good that was done, not the hostile deeds, acknowledging it because they have confidence in themselves." -Dhrtarastra in the Mahabharata
69. "The way we use power is far more important in the long run than is the amount of power we have available." -Elton Trueblood
70. "When one tugs on a single thing in nature, he finds it connected to the rest of the world." - John Muir
71. “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” Colossians 2:8 (NIV)
72. "Surveys find an overwhelming majority of Americans reporting that Americans have badly misplaced priorities. And there is no evidence that Americans grew any happier over the recent decades that witnessed astonishing growth in material standards of living. Self-reported happiness has remained essentially flat, while rates of suicide, depression, and other pathologies have soared." -Daniel M. Haybron
73. "The idea that any deductive argument having actually true premises and a false conclusion is invalid may be the most important point in all of deductive logic. The entire system of deductive logic would be quite useless if it accepted as valid any inferential process by which a person could start with truth in the premises and arrive at falsity in the conclusion." -Patrick J. Hurley
74. "Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame in unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable." -Gorgias
75. "Feel the Fear and do it anyway!" -Jim Carpenter
76. "Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean." -Aristotle
77. "The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion." -Gorgias
78. "A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. In either case it is persuasive because there is somebody whom it persuades." -Aristotle
79. "What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun." -Solomon, Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV)
80. "Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ." - Bonhoeffer
81. "Clearly counsel can only be given on matters about which people deliberate; matters, namely, that ultimately depend on ourselves, and which we have it in our power to set going. For we turn a thing over in our mind until we have reached the point of seeing whether we can do it or not." -Aristotle
82. ". . .figuring out how to fit consciousness into a naturalistic worldview is among the great intellectual mysteries of our time." -Daniel M. Haybron
83. "Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." -Aristotle
84. "That's great, but it only holds true until it is proven wrong. And, the way scientists go about this process is via the scientific method in which they come up with a hypothesis, then observe, test, etc. Well, macro-evolution is neither observable nor testable, so it's simply not science." -Chris P.
85. "We are privileged to be the best we can be at any given moment, but ultimately, it is God's work." -Ken Davis
86. "We must urge that the principles of equity are permanent and changeless, and that the universal law does not change either, for it is the law of nature, whereas written laws often do change." -Aristotle
87. "Laugh often, and laugh at yourself. 'Laughter is a divine gift to the human who is humble. A proud man cannot laugh because he must watch his dignity; he cannot give himself over to the rocking and rolling of his belly. But a poor and happy man laughs heartily because he gives no serious attention to his ego.'" - C.J. Mahaney, "Humility: True Greatness"
88. "Happiness in old age is the coming of old age slowly and painlessly; for a man has not this happiness if he grows old either quickly, or tardily but painfully. It arises both from the excellences of the body and from good luck." -Aristotle
89. "At a bare minimum, our attitudes toward our lives should reflect our priorities and our experience of life." -Daniel M. Haybron
90. "Lastly, of the philosopher himself, who by virtue of his special faculty and wisdom stands alone in claiming something like omniscience, there is after all a kind of definition, to the effect that he who strives to know the significance, nature and causes of everything divine or human, and to master and follow out as a whole the theory of right living, is thus to be denominated." -Antonius in Cicero's "De Oratore"
91. "Sharing Christ with others should be a way of life for every Christian. When you awaken each morning, thank the Lord Jesus for living within you and ask Him to use your lips to speak of His love and forgiveness at every opportunity throughout the day." -Bill Bright, Campus Crusade
92. "Impatient people are tired people." -Dave Dorr
93. "Remember, courage is not the absence of fear, it’s doing what needs to be done despite fear." -Brian Clark
94. "Stressed individuals get less out of life, for they cannot as easily enjoy, or even notice, what life offers them." -Daniel M. Haybron
95. "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner." -Thoreau, Walden
96. "Often, when taking stock, what we realize is precisely that our day-to-day ways of thinking about our lives are seriously deficient, in our own terms. Caught up in the hurly-burly of our daily routines, frequently we lose perspective and forget what really matters to us." -Daniel M. Haybron
97: "Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us." -Socrates
98. "Variety is so powerful in every sphere that there is absolutely nothing, however brilliant, which is not dimmed if not commended by variety." -Erasmus
99. "For most people most of the time, the fallibility of human knowledge requires accepting social conventions, including common beliefs, as the delusions necessary to collective life. For some people at exceptional moments, awareness of this fallibility leads to the rejection of conventional wisdom in favor of a quest for spiritual transcendence that will seem mad to the common folk but that is the only possible antidote to the limits of human knowledge." -Bizzell Herzberg, the introduction to Erasmus in The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present.
100. "Whosoever seeketh, knoweth that which he seeketh for in a general notion; else how shall he know it when he hath found it?" -Plato, Quoted in Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning
101. "Where your talents and the needs of the world cross lies your calling." – Aristotle
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