“IF YOUR MIND GOES BLANK, DON’T FORGET TO TURN OFF THE SOUND!”
“Sign Language: Seen on church billboards from coast to coast” submitted by Monica Popp, Edmonton in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition May 2005
“When was the last time you heard a soul-stirring message on the fear of the LORD? We prefer God to be soft and cuddly, so we have defanged and de-clawed the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. We have relegated the God of fearful judgment to those unread pages of the Old Testament. Surely, we reason, God has reformed his ways. But my God is still an awesome God.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“A very large low-watt bulb”
A friend at a conference describing an overbearing attendee I had characterized as a “dreadnought”.
“The trouble with many travellers is that they take themselves along.”
Joseph Prescott, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Sept. 26, 2005
“There is a game of April Fool that’s played behind its door,/ Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more”.
G.K. Chesterton “The Aristocrat” with respect to the Devil’s “little place at What’sitsname (it isn’t far away)”
“There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.”
“French saying” quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail April 19, 2012
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
Heraclitus, quoted without further attribution in email from the Epoch Times Nov. 20, 2020
“I am not certain that brevity is the soul of wit, but brevity is an excellent substitute for wit.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York Times April 10, 1921, quoted in Gilbert! magazine vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)