Diocese in Europe - Anglican Church in Europe, plus Morocco, Turkey and the former Soviet Union.
Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae - Association of the Catholic bishops' conferences in Europe. List of member conferences, with links to member episcopal conferences' web sites.
Christian Outreach Centre Europe - Official web site of COC's European headquarters. Brief history, information on the humanitarian aid work of Global Compassion, profiles of staff at the European office, church directory.
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Christianity The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Christianity
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Christianity If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Christianity
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Christianity The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Christianity
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Christianity If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Christianity
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Christianity We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Christianity
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Christianity There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Christianity
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Christianity "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Christianity
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Christianity This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Christianity
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Christianity The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Christianity
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Christianity Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Christianity
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Christianity Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Christianity
