Elim Christian Centre - Includes history of the Elim movemenet and the local church, the various ministries, list of special events, and pastors thoughts.
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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Society and Culture Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Society and Culture
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Society and Culture
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Society and Culture A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Society and Culture "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Society and Culture
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Society and Culture Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Society and Culture Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Society and Culture "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Society and Culture If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture
