Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) - This is the official server of the Evangelical Church in Germany, which is the institutional form chosen by a community of 24 Lutheran, Reformed and United regional churches.
St. Athanasius e. V. - Nonprofit sedevacantist (Old Ritualistic Catholic) grantmaking organization. Information on the organization and their Mass Center in Munich.
Early Lutheran Hymn Writers - Biographical sketches of Philipp Nicolai, Johann Heermann, Paul (Paulus) Gerhardt, and Calvinist near-contemporary Joachim Neander.
Black Forest Christian Fellowship - An English-language evangelical local church located in Kandern, Germany. They serve families from the missionary and international communities in the area.
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Christianity Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Christianity
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Christianity When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Christianity
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Christianity Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Christianity
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Christianity Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Christianity
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Christianity To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Christianity
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Christianity "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Christianity
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson May you never leave your marriage alive. Christianity MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Christianity
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Christianity Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Christianity
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Christianity "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Christianity
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Christianity "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Christianity
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Christianity "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Christianity
