I have learned that God provides, not when we want it, but when we need it.

All this talk about wanting to know the truth is gibberish, illusion, and hypocrisy. Every person understands the truth a good deal more than he lives it. Why does he not do more, then? Ah, there’s the rub!

~ Kierkegaard

It is a sad thing indeed, that people are identified as Christians by association with the ecclesiastical institution.
Once, long ago, it wasn't so.

Couldn't we, for once, live as Christ had?
Ah, yes. I'd forgotten. It's too dangerous.

Ravi Zacharias, in his talk "Mind Games in a World of Images",
quoted Fyodor Dostoevsky as prophesying,

First, art would imitate life,
then life would imitate art,
and finally, life would draw the very reason for its existence
from the arts.

Philosophy used to mean a love of wisdom.
It now means a love of sophistry.

Anything to avoid God.

For where your thoughts are, there will your heart be also.

On politics:

A Thai rice farmer is of more concern to God than the state of America.

Sterile not only means clean, it also means dead.

Church is a good antidote for God.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~ Krishnamurti

But to be forgiven we must first believe in sin.
~Jewel

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
~ Douglas Adams

quiet desperation

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

~ Thoreau, Walden

http://simplymerry.blogspot.com/2007/06/price-of-life.html

of modesty

"...Ay, ay," continued he... "M. Frankenstein is modest, an excellent quality in a young man. Young men should be diffident of themselves, you know, M. Cherval: I was myself when young; but that wears out in a very short time."

~ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

another lovely quote from western civ...

'Obey those in power.' If this means 'yield to force' the precept is sound, but superfluous; it will never, I suggest, be violated. All power comes from God, I agree; but so does every disease, and no one forbids us to summon a physician.

~Rousseau, The Social Contract