Category: Quote of the Day

"Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli." (Loosely translated: "According to the intellect of their readers, books have a destiny.") – Terentianus Maurus, De litteris, De syllabis, De Metris

“We’ve all had to rewrite the scripts of our lives the last few weeks, we’ve learnt a lot and we’ve had to figure out what’s important, what matters – what really matters. Its been quite a time.” – Caitlin Stasey as Ellie Linton in the film Tomorrow When the War Began, (Screenplay by John Marsden and Stuart Beattie.)

“Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: …

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance.” – Psalm 33:12 (KJV)

“Waking up at the start of the end of the world, But it’s feeling just like every other morning before, Now I wonder what my life is going to mean if it’s gone, The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour And I started staring at the passengers who’re waving goodbye Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time? I believe the world is burning to the ground Oh well I guess we’re gonna find out Let’s see how far we’ve come Let’s see how far we’ve come Well I believe …

“We’re not huntin’ trouble, we’re peace lovin’ people.  But if trouble should find us, we’ll stand up and fight.” – Red Steagall, “Stand Up and Fight“

"The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him." – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There is the moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past. First freedom and then Glory – when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption – barbarism at last.” – George Gordon (Lord Byron), “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage“, Canto IV

“Between the hand wringing over Greece and the Eurozone, the Palestinian-related hair-pulling at the UN, the stock market cra**ing the bed, and NASA running around yelling that the sky is falling, the only way you can tell the front page of CNN.com from SurvivalBlog right now is by the graphics and color schemes.” – Tamara, at the View From The Porch blog

“Confess [your] faults one to another , and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”- James 5:16 (KJV)

“The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.” – 2 Samuel 23:3-4 (KJV)

"I stood in the Roman Forum, and I found out that they had a Senate in Rome long ago. That’s why Rome declined.  Boy! If they declined with a Senate, what will we do with a Senate and a House?" –  Will Rogers, January, 1927

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." – Edmund Burke

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." – Will Durant

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors." – Plato