"For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God." John 3:20-21

"For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." 2 Corinthians 4:6-7

Amazing grace,

how sweet the sound

that saved a wretch like me;

I once was lost,

but now am found,

was blind,

but now I see.

"Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out:

HALLELUJAH! THE LORD OUR GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, REIGNS!" ~ Rev. 19:6

"In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant shall find there what he should learn. He that is a perverse sinner shall find his damnation to make him to tremble for fear. He that laboreth to serve God shall find there His glory and the promises of eternal life, exhorting him more diligently to labor." ~ Thomas Cranmer

"... I would marvel much that any man should be so mad as to refuse in darkness, light; in hunger, food; in cold, fire..." ~ Thomas Cranmer

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ~ Shakespeare, Macbeth

G.K. Chesterton Quotes:

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Here ends another day, during which I had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Jesus promised His disciples three things -- that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

The fear does not come from fairy tales; the fear comes from the universe of the soul.

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashion.

"There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good." ~ Burton Hillis

"You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: everyone is attracted by bits of it and wants to pick out those bits and leave the rest." ~ C.S. Lewis

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures." ~ Jessamyn West

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil." ~ Gandalf

"A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world -- and might even be more difficult to save." ~ C.S. Lewis

"I find your lack of faith disturbing." ~ Darth Vader

"Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." ~ C.S. Lewis

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." ~ Mark Twain

"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." ~ Douglas Adams

"[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy: it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect, and it excites no affection between those who practice it." ~ C.S. Lewis

"So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." ~ Thucydides

"Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the one that follows him?" ~ Obi-wan Kenobi