Words of wisdom and warning.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. - John, the apostle of Jesus Christ (I John 4:18)

God never made His work for man to mend. - John Dryden

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? - Benjamin Franklin

God made the country and man made the town. - William Cowper

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side. - Abraham Lincoln

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. - Saint Augustine

God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks. - traditional proverb

Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not. - Nikita Ivanovich Panin

God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

I don't say what God is, but a name that somehow answers us when we are driven to feel and think how little we have to do with what we are. - Edwin Arlington Robinson

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. - Ed Howe

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. - Plutarch

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. - Benjamin Jowett

God is clever, but not dishonest. - Albert Einstein

For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty. - Alben W. Barkley

The best way to know God is to love many things. - Vincent van Gogh

I see God in the faces of men and women. - Walt Whitman

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. - Saadi

God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. - G. C. Lichtenberg

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God. - Ernest Dimnet

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him. - Christopher Morley

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. - John Petit-Senn

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly. - Terence

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. - Fitz-Greene Halleck

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? - Madame Dorothée Deluzy

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. - Tryon Edwards

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. - Ralph Barton Perry

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. - Calvin Coolidge

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. - James Bryant Conant

There's a sucker born every minute. - P. T. Barnum

The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence. - Christian Nestell Bovee

A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. - Hans Speier

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. - Hans J. Morgenthau

The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. - Adolf Hitler

We have made the Reich by propaganda. - Joseph Paul Goebbels

Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. - William Mather Lewis




The gift of eternal life is freely given to those who trust in Jesus as their savior. Those who believe, pray, read the Bible and allow themselves to grow in spirit and truth by trusting in Jesus and in the guidance of the Holy Spirit are brought into the family of God and will spend eternity with Him. You can read more about Jesus in the Gospel of John.

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