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A Friend’s Favorite Quotes

Favorite Quotes: “We’re all latecomers to history. When we get here, all this stuff has happened.” — Jaya Savige

“Hinduism is rich, Buddhism sophisticated, Judaism essential, Islam muscular and Christianity true.” — John Dickson

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.” — Gandalf

“The rule is,” said Vertue, “that if we have one chance out of a hundred of surviving, we must attempt it: but if we have none, absolutely none, then it would be self-destruction, and we need not.” — C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress

“So let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” — President John F. Kennedy, commencement address, American University, 1963

“To be evangelical is to defend life at every stage, help the poor, and strive for justice.” — Charles Colson

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

“Australians never seem so parochial as when we act in fear of being regarded as parochial.” — James Spigelman

“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.” –Douglas Coupland, jpod.

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