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Andrew Lawson, M.D. |
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QUOTE BOX |
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“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men; The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? ...If you gain, you gain all; If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” -Blaise Pascal
“There are two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein
“God loves everyone of us as if there were but one of us to love.”-St. Augustine
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” -Sir Isaac Newton
“When a man believes himself to be utterly lost, light breaks”-Martin Luther
“Is this a life that leads to death, or a death that leads to life?” -Augustine of Hippo
'Today virtually everyone agrees that the universe and time itself had a beginning at the Big Bang' -Steven Hawking from The Nature of Space and Time, 1996
“God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.”-GK Chesterton
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” -Winston Churchill
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”
“Imagine that the thickness of this [piece of paper] represents the distance from the earth to the sun. Using this scale, the distance to the nearest star is a 71-foot-high sheaf of paper. The diameter of our own galaxy is a 310-mile stack, while the edge of the known universe is not reached until the pile of paper is 31 million miles high!” -National Geographic Magazine, May 1974, page 592
“Those who reach, touch the stars.” -Flavia
“Cease striving and know that I am God.”
“You stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” -St. Augustine, Confessions
“You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.”-St. Augustine, Confessions |
Starting in college, I have collected over the years a box of 3x5 cards with my favorite quotes on them. I have now started to collect & share some of my favorite quotes here. |
