"Sooner or later you just figure out there some some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care." - Donald Miller; "Blue Like Jazz"

"Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not suddenly become colder? ... Now, how shall we the murderer of all murderers compose ourselves? Because that which was holiest and mightiest of all that the world possessed has bleed under our knives. Who will wipe this blood from us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement? What sacred games will we need to invent?" - Nietzsche

"We can call the attempt to refute theism by displaying the continuity of the belief in God with primitive delusion the method of Anthropological intimidation." - Edwyn Bevan

"If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rest on you." - 1 Peter 4:14

"There is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference ... We are machines for propagating DNA. ... It is every living object's sole reason for being." - Richard Dawkings

"For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.' Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" 1 Corinthians 1:18-20

"Abbot Pastor said: 'Get away from any man who always argues every time he talks.'" - Desert Fathers

"They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. But the Lord has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge." -Psalm 95:21-22

"Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone." - Col. 4:5-6

"Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints." (Jude 3)

"Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD." - Amos 8:11

"Abbot Palladuis said: The soul that wishes to live according to the will of Christ should either learn faithfully what it does not yet know, or teach openly what it does know. But if, when it can, it desires to do neither of these things, it is afflicted with madness. For the first step away from God is distaste for learning, and lack of appetite for those things for which the soul hungers when it seeks God." -- Desert Fathers

"... TV preachers are not making appeals to the worst people, but to the worst in people. They make appeals to people's greed, selfishness, envy, pride: 'Your gonna get rich, you deserve abundance, you're better than nonbelievers.' To me, it's not much different than what the worst of our political leaders do." -- Matt Casper "Jim and Casper go to Church"

"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. THerefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." (Matthew 10:16)

"If chance be the father of all flesh, disaster is his rainbow in the sky and when you hear, 'State of Emergency: Sniper Kills Ten', 'Troops on Rampage', 'Youths Go Looting', 'Bomb Blasts School,' it is but man worshiping his maker." - Steve Turner

I love God and am so very blessed to know he loves me and has saved me.