Collection of Quotes

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Biblical Quotes

“And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” | Yeshua - Matthew 18:1-6

“The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.” | Proverbs 4:19

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” | Proverbs 1:7
“Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position.” | 1 Peter 3:17
“Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.” | 1 Corinthians 15:1,2
“Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive with them.” | Proverbs 28:4
“Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.” | Proverbs 17:28

“He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.” | Proverbs 18:13
“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.” | Proverbs 29:11
“If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.” | Proverbs 29:9

“...I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” | 2 Timothy 4:1-4

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” | Matthew 10:16

“Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men who plan evil things in their hearts; they continually gather together for war” | Psalm 140:1-2

Religious Quotes

“That you struggle with doubts does not mean that those who do not struggle in the same way are simply weak-minded, in denial or bare-faced liars. Nor, more importantly, does the mere fact that you have doubts mean that those doubts are necessarily legitimate and well-grounded. Doubting on your part does not constitute a crisis of faith on mine” | Carl Trueman

“I’ve traveled to fifty countries, but I’ve never been to heaven.” | Laurel Lee, when asked if she was afraid to die

“If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.” | Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind

“I believe that those sermons which are fullest of Christ are the most likely to be blessed to the conversion of the hearers. Let your sermons be full of Christ, from beginning to end crammed full of the Gospel. As for myself, brethren, I cannot preach anything else but Christ and His Cross, for I know nothing else, and long ago, like the Apostle Paul, I determined not to know anything else save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” | C. H. Spurgeon

“The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance. Question: Isn’t the real truth that they are intolerant of religion?” | Ronald Reagan, August 23, 1984

“In a world of political correctness devoid of the rule of law, tolerance has come to mean total rejection of Christianity and moral standards. Modern tolerance redefines words like ‘marriage,’ ‘discrimination,’ ‘equality,’ ‘morality,’ and even ‘absolutes.’ The word ‘tolerance’ as it is used today never includes opposing arguments or competing worldviews. Tolerance has become Orwellian and decidedly intolerant.” | Matthew Staver, Dean and Professor of Law at Liberty University School of Law

“I am not called in the Bible to be tolerant, I am not. I refuse to be tolerant. I think it demeans people. I am not called to be tolerant; I am called to be loving. I am not called to tolerate people; I am called to love people. When you tolerate someone, it demeans them, when you love someone, it projects value, dignity and worth in that person. As Christians we are called to not only love one another, we are called to love the ungodly.” | Josh McDowell, author of More Than a Carpenter and “O” God: A Dialogue on Truth and Oprah’s Spirituality

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” | Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person, and it can never be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God, made known through Jesus Christ.” | Blaise Pascal

“God’s army always moves forward on its knees.” | K. P. Yohannon

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” | Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

“You know the sheep are in trouble when the shepherds speak kindly of the wolves.” | Unknown via John Reynold’s e-mail

“My boss is a Jewish carpenter.” | Bumper sticker

“Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.” | Watchman Nee

“Every doctrinal error in Christianity and every error in practical living can almost always be traced to a faulty perception of God.” | A. W. Tozer

“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” | Charles Spurgeon

“If you meet me and forget me, you’ve lost nothing... If you meet Jesus Christ and forget Him, you’ve lost everything!” | Unknown

“If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” | Unknown

“God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.” | Billy Graham

“People can’t find God like a thief can’t find a cop.” | Kent Hovind

“Man will believe anything, as long as it’s not in the Bible.” | A Wise Man

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” | Corey Tenboom

“If a skeptic has already decided that miracles do not and cannot occur, then even if one should take place right in front of his nose, he would simply dismiss it as a coincidence, a natural anomaly, or, like Scrooge, as the result of ‘an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato.” | C. S. Lewis

“Philosophy is common sense with big words.” | James Madison (1751-1836) more Madison quotes

“If He who was the Word (Jesus) would continually stand on, ‘It is written...’ (Matthew 4), when challenged or tempted by the devil, how much more should we, knowing the Bible is fundamental to a strong and successful Christian life?” | Rick Joyner

“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.” | Mark Twain

“About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.” | Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
“Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.” | John Mitchell Mason
“The difference between Islam and Christianity is that in Islam, you are expected to die for your god. With Christianity, our God died for us.” | Unknown

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” | Winston Churchill

“Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated.” | C. S. Lewis

“The Bible is like a lion; it does not need to be defended; just let it loose and it will defend itself.” | Martin Luther

“For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.” | Storm Jameson
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” | Jim Elliot
“First, then, before you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your actual transgressions against the Law of God.” | George Whitefield
“Lord help me to be the person my dog thinks I am.” | Unknown
“Most I fear God. Next to Him, I fear him that fears Him not. If someone has no fear of God, he will lie to you, steal from you, and even kill you … if he thinks he can get away with it.” | A wise man
“Only the shallow know themselves.” | Oscar Wilde See also: 1 Corinthians 2:6-12
“Satan knows my past but I know his future.” | Unknown

“What a stretch it is to believe that nothing plus no one equals something.” | Adrian Rogers

“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.” | Don Marquis

“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto.” | A. W. Tozer

“We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.” | Cato the Elder
“There are people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.” | Albert Einstein

Apostasy

“My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ,” | Erwin McManus, author of The Barbarian Way, said in a telephone interview. Link

“Some people are upset with me because it sounds like I’m anti-Christian. I think they might be right.” | Erwin McManus, from The Barbarian Way Link

“With practice, you can develop the habit of praying silent ‘breath prayers’” | Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life (p. 299)

“[U]se ‘breath prayers’ throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath.” | Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life, p. 89 Matthew 6:7,8

“I began practicing meditation, specifically breath prayer, once again. I integrated the use of Tai Chi and yoga.” | John Michael Talbot, Interview with Christianity Today 10/22/2001

“Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God’s house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her own way to God.” | Henri Nouwen, Sabbatical Journey Link

“Emergent doesn’t have a position on absolute truth, or on anything for that matter. Do you show up at a dinner party with your neighbors and ask, ‘What’s this dinner party’s position on absolute truth?’ No, you don’t, because it’s a nonsensical question.” | Tony Jones, 2005 National Youth Workers Convention Link

“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then He is a murderer, and we had better kill Him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community. Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject His love.” | James Cone Ph.D., author of Black Power and Black Theology and one of the founders of black liberation theology influencing Jeremiah Wright

Political Quotes

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” | Ben Franklin, 1759

“Those people who are not governed by GOD will be ruled by tyrants.” | William Penn

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” | Ernest Benn

“Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.” | Alfred E. Newman

“Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” | Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” | George Bernard Shaw

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” | Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.” | Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

“Naturally the common people don’t want war…but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…all you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” | Herman Goering, (One of Hitler’s top men. Quote during the Nuremberg Trials)

“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.” | Granville Hicks

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” | Mark Twain

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself.” | Mark Twain

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.” | Mark Twain

“Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” | Mark Twain

“Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.” | Marshall McLuha

“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.” | Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” | James Madison (1751-1836) more Madison quotes

“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.” | John F. Kennedy

“What an immense mass of evil must result. . . from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.” | Leo Tolstoy

“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie!’ till you can find a rock.” | Will Rogers

“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.” | Henry Kissinger
“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.” | Martin Niemueller
“Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them, it awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high.” | Jean Francois Revel

“Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not the character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.” | George Bernard Shaw, one of the founders of the Fabian Society speaking of the Socialist Utopia

Marxism

“The essence of Marxian philosophy is this: We are right because we are the spokesmen of the rising proletarian class. Discursive reasoning cannot invalidate our teachings, for they are inspired by the supreme power that determines the destiny of mankind. Our adversaries are wrong because they lack the intuition that guides our minds.” | Ludwig von Mises, Source

“All the sophisticated syllogisms of the ponderous volumes published by Marx, Engels, and hundreds of Marxian authors cannot conceal the fact that the only and ultimate source of Marx’s prophecy is an alleged inspiration by virtue of which Marx claims to have guessed the plans of the mysterious powers determining the course of history. Like Hegel, Marx was a prophet communicating to the people the revelation that an inner voice had imparted to him.” | Ludwig von Mises, Source

“Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person.” | Ludwig von Mises, Source

“The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.” | Ludwig von Mises, Source

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” | Karl Marx

Media Does Matter

The Role of the Media in Advancing Cross-Cultural Understanding (DPI/NGO Briefing) - Participants include Sr. Joan Kirby of the Temple of Understanding at the UN and Prof. Tomaz Mastnak, Director, Office of the Alliance of Civilizations.

“If we understand the mechanisms of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.” | Edward L. Bernays, journalist and “the father of spin,” from his book Propaganda: How the Media Molds Your Mind 1928

“Goebbels...was using my book ‘crystallizing public opinion’ as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany, this shocked me.” | Edward L. Bernays, journalist and “the father of spin,” Biography of an Idea

“It was, of course, the astounding success of propaganda during the war that opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind. It was only natural, after the war ended, that intelligent persons should ask themselves whether it was not possible to apply a similar technique to the problems of peace.” | Edward L. Bernays

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.” | Edward L. Bernays (Sigmund Freud’s nephew and author of Propaganda: How the Media Molds Your Mind 1928)

“The hypothesis which seems to me the most fertile is that news and truth are not the same thing and must be clearly distinguished. The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them into relation with each other, and to make a picture of reality on which men can act. Only at those points where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide. That is a comparatively small part of the whole field of human interest.” | Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

“Naturally the common people don’t want war…but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…all you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” | Herman Goering (One of Hitler’s top men. Quote during the Nuremberg Trials)

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” | Mark Twain

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” | David Rockefeller in an address to Trilateral Commission meeting, 1991

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” | David Rockefeller, Memoirs , 2002 (Random House, New York, 2002) Chapter 27, page 405

“The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” | Zbigniew Brezhinsky , Advisor to 5 U.S. Presidents - Executive Director Trilateral Commission. “Between two Ages”

“I claim the existence of a conspiracy for the destruction of the Western World as the prelude for shepherding mankind into a sheep’s pen run as a prelude to One World tyranny.” | A.K. Chesterton, The New Unhappy Lords: An Exposure of Power Politics

“If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.” | President George H.W. Bush to journalist Sarah McClendon, December 1992, in response to the question, “What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra?” Link

“It is the SACRED principals enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our Allegiance.” | President George H.W. Bush - UN building, Feb. 1, 1992

“The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common – they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty of the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world-banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government.” | Chester Ward 16-year member of the CFR

“The CFR, dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax-exempt foundations, and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education and mass communication media, should be familiar to every American concerned with good government and with preserving and defending the U.S. Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation’s right to know machinery – the news media – usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain conspicuously silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities. The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high-level decisions for converting the United States from a sovereign constitutional republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship.” | Former Congressman John R. Rarick

“We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police.” | Walter Cronkite

“Join me, I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.” | Walter Cronkite, Acceptance speech for the World Federalist Association’s Global Governance Award - October 19, 1999 Watch this for yourself! (6:50 min.)

“Give me control of a Nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.” | Mayer Amschel Bauer (Rothschild)

Education Quotes

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” | Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.” | Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.” | Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.” | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)

“One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.” | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation before investigation.” | Edmund Spencer

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.” | Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.” | Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

“When I became a man, I put childish things behind me - including the desire to grow up.” | C.S. Lewis

“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.” | Eugene S. Wilson

“Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state.” | Adolf Hitler

“This new (state) will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.” | Adolf Hitler

“Of the Aquarian Conspirators surveyed, more were involved in education than in any other single category of work.” | Marilyn Ferguson (Pg 66,67 For Many Shall Come In My Name)
“Fundamentalist parents have no right to indoctrinate their children in their beliefs. We are preparing their children for the year 2000 and life in a global one-world society (Novus Ordo Seculorum), and those children will not fit in.” | Peter Hoagland, head of Nebraska Board of Education and former senator of Nebraska
“Subtle forces are at work, factors you are not likely to see in banner headlines. For example, tens of thousands of classroom teachers, educational consultants and psychologists, counselors, administrators, researchers, and faculty members in colleges of education have been among the millions engaged in personal transformations. They have only recently begun to link regionally and nationally, to share strategies, to conspire for the teaching of all they most value: freedom, high expectations, awareness, patterns, connections, creativity. They are eager to share their discoveries with those colleagues ready to listen.” | Marilyn Ferguson (Pg 66,67 For Many Shall Come In My Name)
“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.” | Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” | Aldous Huxley
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man.” | Albert Einstein
“An open mind is like an open window with a screen: it lets in the fresh air but keeps out the bugs.” | Unknown
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” | James Lane Allen
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” | Plato
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” | Gertrude Stein
“...As a matter-of-fact, creationism should be discriminated against ... no advocate of such propaganda should be trusted to teach science classes or administer science programs anywhere or under any circumstances. Moreover, if any are now doing so, they should be dismissed.” | John Patterson, Journal of the National Center for Science Education

“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” | Albert Einstein

Darwin & Evolution

Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

“I worked upon the true principles of Baconian induction.” | Charles Darwin

“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.” | Sir Francis Bacon

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) Believed by some to be the pen-name of Sir Francis Bacon

“Knowledge is power.” | Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

“I feel most deeply that the whole subject (religion) is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.” | Charles Darwin

“Getting rid of the idea of God freed me up to my erotic desires.” | Bertrand Russell

“[I suppose the reason that] we all jumped at the origin [of species] was that the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.” | Sir Julian Huxley, Leading Evolutionist of his day and first Director-General of UNESCO

“...Darwin’s theory is...no longer a theory, but a fact...Darwinianism has come of age so to speak. We are no longer having to bother about establishing the fact of evolution.” | Sir Julian Huxley, cited in David Noebel, Understanding the Times

“It is clear that the doctrine of Evolution is directly antagonistic to that of creation. Evolution, if consistently accepted, makes it impossible to believe the Bible.” | Sir Julian Huxley, Leading Evolutionist of his day and first Director-General of UNESCO

“Today, although many educators play it safe by calling evolutionary ideas ‘theory’ instead of ‘fact,’ there is no reputable biologist who doubts that species including Homo sapiens, have developed with time, and that they are continually, though slowly, changing.” | Isaac Asimov, The Wellsprings of Life

“If all animals and man evolved, then there were no first parents, no Adam and Eve, no Eden, no fall of man. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historic fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement collapsed like a house of cards.” | H.G. Wells
“It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).” | Richard Dawkins, prominent Oxford scientist and author. Cited in M. Hartwig, Challenging Darwin’s Myths, Moody Monthly
“The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.” | Sir Arthur Keith, Evolution and Ethics, Putnam, NY, USA, p. 230, 1947 Source

“Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. No, the modern methods of evolution are, from an ethical point of view, immoral.” | Sir Arthur Keith, Evolution and Ethics, Putnam, NY, USA, Chapter 2, 1947 Source

“Evolution is a fact amply demonstrated by the fossil record and by contemporary molecular biology. Natural selection is a successful theory devised to explain the fact of evolution.” | Carl Sagen, The Dragons of Eden

“Evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of God...and if Jesus was not the redeemer who dies for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.” | G. Richard Bozarth, American Atheist

Evolution not being scientific

“You will be greatly disappointed (by the forthcoming book); it will be grievously too hypothetical. It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of the species. But, alas, how frequent, how almost universal it is in an author to persuade himself of the truth of his own dogmas.” | Charles Darwin, 1858, in a letter to a colleague regarding the concluding chapters of his Origin of Species. As quoted in ‘John Lofton’s Journal’, The Washington Times, 8 February 1984.

Do the facts prove evolution?

“For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question; and this is here impossible.” | Charles Darwin, 1859, Introduction to Origin of Species, p. 2. Also quoted in ‘John Lofton’s Journal’, The Washington Times, 8 February 1984

General difficulties with the theory of evolution

“Long before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to my reader. Some of them are so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered...” | Charles Darwin (ed. J. W. Burrow), The Origin of Species (Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1974.), p. 205.

Evolution is a faith not based on evidence

“When we descend to details we can prove that no one species has changed (i.e., we cannot prove that a single species has changed): nor can we prove that the supposed changes are beneficial, which is the groundwork of the theory. Nor can we explain why some species have changed and others have not. The latter case seems to me hardly more difficult to understand precisely and in detail than the former case of supposed change.” | Charles Darwin, 1863.

Evolution is impossible

“To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.” | Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 1st Ed., p. 186.

Evolution leads to immorality

“A man who has no assured and ever-present belief in the existence of a personal God, or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones.” | Charles Darwin, The Morality of Evolution, Autobiography, Norton, p. 94, 1958

Miscellaneous Quotes

“Oh, Christians, every day, people walk into post offices, they walk into schools, that's what Columbine is - I could do this all day long. There are so many more examples of Christians - and I happen to be a Christian. That's back to this notion of your idealizing Christianity in my mind, to my read. There are so many more examples, Ayaan, of Christians who do that than you could ever give me examples of Muslims who have done that inside this country, where you live and work.” | Tavis Smiley, Interviewing Ayaan Hirsi Ali See Video

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” | Henry J. Kaiser

“Never argue with a fool, someone looking in may not be able to tell the difference.” | Unknown

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” | Chinese Proverb
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” | Confucius (551BC - 479BC)
“The stronger you insist on the necessity of tolerance, the more intolerant you become toward those who disagree. The moral lesson is that there is no such thing as unqualified tolerance; ultimately, one must be able to expound intolerance of certain ideologies without surrendering the moral high ground normally linked to tolerance.” | Judea Pearl (Father of Daniel Pearl)

“Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.” | Austin O’Malley

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” | Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860

“What if this weren’t a hypothetical question?” | Unknown

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” | George Eliot

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” | G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” | Flannery O’Connor (1925 - 1964)
“If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.” | Dorothee Solle

“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” | Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.” | Dale Carnegie

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” | Aldous Huxley See: They Sold Their Souls For Rock N’ Roll Beware the subtle influence of the words accompanying music.

“When you are a bear of very little brain, and think of things, you sometimes find that a thing which seemed very thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out in the open and has other people looking at it.” | Pooh Bear from Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne

“When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state change with them. ... through foolishness they, the people, deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave...a spirit of lawbreaking.” | Plato

“Music directly represents the passions or states of the soul, gentleness, anger, courage, temperance... If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person...” | Aristotle

“Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It’s called ‘rain’.” | Michael McClary

“By responsible use of science, technology, and other rational means we shall eventually manage to become posthuman.” | Nick Bostrom

“The moral challenge of transhumanism will transcend those of abortion and euthanasia. For this reason, the pro-life movement must become the pro-human movement.” | Nigel M. Cameron