QUOTES ABOUT CHURCH AND RELIGION

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock. – T.S. Eliot

Traveler:  "God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer."
Farmer:  "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."
~Author Unknown

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. – Martin Luther

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.  Religion is answers that may never be questioned.  ~Author Unknown









Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,



Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.  ~G.K. Chesterton




Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.  ~George Santayana

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man. – Dwight L. Moody


People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.  ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.  ~Karl Menninger



The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.  ~Bono

THE DESERT - PICTURES & QUOTES

“Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?”  - Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White












“For your sake, I hurry over land and water;
For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,
And I turn my face from all things,
Until the time I reach the place
Where I am alone with you.”

- Al Hallaj












“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

DRINKING QUOTES

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much.  Then again, don't drink too little.  ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen







Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.  That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.  ~Ernest Hemingway







A hangover is the wrath of grapes.  ~Author Unknown








Draft beer, not people.  ~Author Unknown








The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.  ~Author Unknown








When the wine goes in, strange things come out.  ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799







Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.  It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.  ~Graham Greene







If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.







First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.  ~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald







I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.  ~Raymond Chandler







This is one of the disadvantages of wine:  it makes a man mistake words for thought.  ~Samuel Johnson








One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.  ~Lady Astor










A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner.  "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."  ~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin










It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.  ~Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856










Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed.  Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams.  If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered.  Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.  ~Jack Handey









What's drinking?
A mere pause from thinking!
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed








Here's to a long life and a
                                      merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
~Author Unknown








You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.  ~Author Unknown








Zen martini:  A martini with no vermouth at all.  And no gin, either.  ~P.J. O'Rourke







If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker.  If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.  ~Author Unknown








Drunkenness is temporary suicide.  ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness








Wine is bottled poetry.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson









I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.  ~Thomas Jackson







It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.  ~George Burns







Wine is sunlight, held together by water.  ~Galileo







If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.  ~Author Unknown







They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.  ~Scottish Proverb







Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.  ~Giuseppe Garibaldi







A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.  ~W.C. Fields








I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.  ~Oscar Levant








The drunk mind speaks the sober heart.  ~Author Unknown







There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils in the bottom.  ~Terri Guillemets







I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.  ~Phil Harris








Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.  ~Seneca







I drink only to make my friends seem interesting.  ~Don Marquis







Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.  ~Robert Heinlein










I'd prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.  ~Frank Nicholson, attributed








Of the demonstrably wise there are but two:  those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.  ~Mark Twain, Note-Book, 1935









Take life with a grain of salt, a slice of lime, and a shot of tequila.  ~Author Unknown









Drink the first.  Sip the second slowly.  Skip the third.  ~Knute Rockne









Everyone who drinks is not a poet.  Some of us drink because we're not poets.  ~From the movie Arthur









One martini is all right.  Two are too many, and three are not enough.  ~James Thurber










Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin








The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. -Humphrey Bogart







Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer. -Al Bundy, Married with Children








Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. -Dean Vernon Wormer, Animal House








 I like my whiskey old and my women young. -Errol Flynn







Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy. -Frank Sinatra








Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. -Will Rogers










Don't bother trying to join the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It turns out they're apparently against all three. -Wiley







I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know.  W.C. Fields