Eddie > Eddie's Quotes

“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.”
― Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“I hate cowboys."
"There's nothing I can do to them a horse has not done”
― Lee Child, The Midnight Line

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”
― Louis L'Amour

“The Texas Rangers," he said softly, "are dead. All six of them have gone. In their place there's just one man. The lone Ranger." He”
― Fran Striker, The Lone Ranger Rides North

“Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.”
― Walter Lord, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

“Pap said, "Lend me those bolt cutters, Bo"
"They're in the back of the Explorer."
The old man got out the bolt cutter, walked around and snipped one of the leads to the battery on each of the ATV's. The others stood in the darkness watching him, listening to the snip-snip of the bolt cutter.
"Not a bad idea," said Dave. "That way is any of them get past us, he's going to be on foot."
"There's that," Tully said. "And then there's the fact that the old man loves bolt cutters...”
― Patrick F. McManus, The Blight Way

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.”
― Arnold Palmer

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.”
― Drake

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

“God, you love me so much that you gave your one and only Son for me. Because I believe in Jesus, I will not perish, but have eternal life.”
― Nancy DeJesus, For Men - Speak Life into Your Life by Declaring God's Promises

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“God's work done in God's way will never lack God's provision.”
― Hudson Taylor

“Hope isn’t a strategy, but sometimes it’s all you’ve got.”
― Mark Greaney, One Minute Out

“Is any thing worth it? This fearful sacrifice—this awful penalty we pay for war? —Mary Boykin Chesnut, journal, July 26, 1864”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum.

[James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard