Think about it
This page, changed periodically (when we have the time ...), includes memorable quotations from all sorts of people, although (necessarily) most of them will have been writers and many (not all) will be Christian. They are placed here to provoke thought and discussion, not as a statement of faith !
Please don't feel you ought to agree; vehement disagreement may be the appropriate response in some cases.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W Somerset Maugham (Writer, in 'The Summing Up')
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift (Priest and Anglican Dean of Dublin, Satirist, in 'Thoughts on Religious Subjects')
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne (Priest and Poet, in 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions')
Please note:
- we have not necessarily verified these quotations against original sources; there may be errors of transcription
- quotations from non-English language sources may have been distorted in translation and any quotation taken out of context may inadvertently misrepresent its author's meaning; however we do not knowingly misrepresent author's views.
revised 17 May 2008