I collect quotes. Some I try to live by. Some I may use as a chapter introduction for some book I will write. Others are just plain good English.​

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ON ARGUING

"The strength of our conviction should match the depth of our study." — Preston Sprinkle

"We will speak the truth effectively only in the context of loving relationships." — Tim Chester

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"We think insight is change. We think, 'Now I know something different so therefore I'm different. [That's wrong.]" — John Mark Comer

“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.” — Proverbs‬ ‭26‬:‭4‬-‭5‬

 

"Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence,
   but a false witness utters deceit." — Proverbs 12:17

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“We must never be so certain of our rightness that we cannot be shown we are wrong.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus, The Genius of Jesus

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ON SCRIPTURE

"[Don't] scream what the Scripture whispers and don't whisper what the Scripture screams." — Tara-Leigh Cobble

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ON CHRISITAN LIVING

“In the best Utopia, I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment.” — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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LIFE ADVICE

"You can be doing something wrong your whole life. Experience doesn't equal expertise." — Anonymous

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"You will make the mistakes your parents didn't." — from a friend

 

"I​n thankfulness for present mercy, nothing so becomes us as losing sight of past ills."
— Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur

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"I was reminded that having extra needs does not make you too difficult, too time consuming, but worthy of compassion and love." — Chanel Miller, Know My Name

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"Since we were made to glorify God, worship happens when someone is doing exactly what he or she was made to do." — Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark

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GOOD ENGLISH

"I’m not proud of everything I did, but I’ll tell you everything I did." — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

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"Then comes one of those pivotal days that begins like any other day but alters a life forever." — Philip Yancey, Where the Light Fell

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"The mother waves a graceful hand in front of her as she leads the way, parting curtain after curtain of spiders' webs. She appears to be conducting a symphony. Behind them, the curtain closes. The spiders return to their killing ways." — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible