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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

Jonathan Sacks

When everything that matters can be bought and sold,when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advanrage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroting the very virtues on which it depends. That, not the return of socialism, is the danger that advanced economies now face. Jonathan Sacks, Markets and Morals, First Things, August 2000.

The Marquis de Sade

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness - it means more to me than my life itself. -- The Marquis de Sade

Muslih-uddin Sadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity. - Muslih-uddin Sadi

. . . once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience . . . --- Sadi. The Gulistan

William Safire (1929 &endash; )

Never assume the obvious is true.-- William Safire

Avoid awkward or affected alliteration. William Safire

Carl Sagan, (1934 &endash; 1996)

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. -- Carl Sagan

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. Carl Sagan, (1934 &endash; 1996) "Broca's Brain" (1978), p. xiv.

Ibn Sa'id

To the north of the island of Inkiltere is the island of Irlanda. Its length is some twelve days' journey, and its breadth at the center about four days, and it is famous for its multiplicity of dissension. Its people were heathens and then adopted Christianity in imitation of their neighbours. - Ibn Sa'id - 13th century

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 &endash; 1944)

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Saki (Hector Hugo Munro) 1870-1916

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn. --Saki

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.- Saki (1870-1916) H. H. Munro: "Reginald at the Carlton."

One man's Mede is another man's Persian --"Saki" (H. H. Munro)

She took to telling the truth; she said she was forty-two and five months. It may have been pleasing to the angels, but her elder sister was not gratified.--Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870-1916) _Reginald_ [1904]

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything but against something. Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? -- Francis de Sales

One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence. ... Francois de Sales (1567-1622)

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.... Francois de Sales (1567-1622)

Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, as a general rule, you may be sure that complaining is sin: ... because self-love always magnifies our injuries.... FranÁois de Sales (1567-1622)

Jonas Salk (1914 &endash; 1995)

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.--Jonas Salk

Guillaume de Salluste (1544-1590)

The world's a stage, where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence do act the parts. --Guillaume de Salluste (1544-1590) _Divine Weeks and Works_ [1578], "First Week, First Day"

James A. Sanaker

Conscience: The still small voice that makes you feel still smaller. --James A. Sanaker

Carl Sandberg

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.-- Carl Sandberg

Alex Sanders

Change almost always represents improvement of the human condition.Constancy almost always represents stagnation. In any event, change is certain. There's no point in complaining about it. Natural history teaches that survival in a changing world does not depend on physical strength or on high intelligence. Survival depends on the ability to change. --Alex Sanders

Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875-1939)

The only known cure for fear is faith.--Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875-1939)

Margaret Sanger

The most merciful thing a large family can do for one of its infant members is to kill it.-- Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race, Truth Publishing, 1920

George Santayana (1863-1952)

One Englishman - an idiot, two Englishmen - a sporting event, three Englishmen - an empire. --Santayana

A child eucated only at school is an uneducated child.--George Santayana (1863-1952)

Nothing could be madder, more irresponsible, more dangerous than this guidance of men by dreams.--George Santayana (1863-1952__Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies_ [1922], "Imagination"

The world was to be freed from Christianity and feudalism; it was not to be free to become Christian and feudal again. This rigid form of liberty being established, no other form of liberty would be permitted. What the [French] Revolution was really making for... was liberty absolute and forever empty; liberty without foundations in nature or history, but resident in a sort of prophetic commotion. Custom, law, privilege, and religion were not to command allegiance, but to be themes only for criticism and invective. Hence the mortal hatred of any view that recognized realities, or built upon them. --George Santayana _Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society and Government_ (1951)

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it .... This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.-- George Santayana (1863-1952), Life of Reason, vol. 1, chap. 12, p. 284 (1905)

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.--George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.~George Santayana

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. But as it nevertheless intends all the time to be something dignified, at the next moment it corrects and checks and tries to cover up the absurd thing it was; so that a conventional world, a world of masks, is superimposed on the reality, and passes in every sphere of human interest for the reality itself. Humor is the perception of this illusion, whilst the convention continues to be maintained, as if we had not observed its absurdity. -- George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. -- George Santayana, _The Life of Reason_

William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. - William Saroyan, 1908 - 1981

May Sarton

In the country of pain we are each alone.--May Sarton

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.- May Sarton

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean Paul Sartre

That God does not exist, I cannot deny,
That my whole being cries out for God
I cannot forget
Jean-Paul Sartre

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. --Jean Paul Sartre

The existentialist . . . finds it extremely embarassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven.- Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "Being and Nothingness," Conclusion, sct. 2, 1943; tr. 1965.

Hermann Sasse

The lie is the death of man, his temporal and his eternal death. The lie kills nations. Through their lies, the most powerful empires of the world were laid waste. History knows of no more unsettling spectacle than the judgment which comes to pass when the men of an advanced culture have rejected the truth, and are now swallowed up in a sea of lies. As was the case with fading pagan antiquity, where this happened, religion and law, poetry and philosophy life in marriage and family, in the state and society, in short, one sphere of life after another, fell sacrifice to the power and curse of the lie. Where man can no longer bear the truth, he cannot live without the lie. Where man, even when dying, lies to himself and others, the terrible dissolution of his culture is held up as a glorious ascent, and decline is viewed as an advance, the like of which has never beenexperienced.- Hermann Sasse's Christ and His Church -- Union and Confession, Concordia Publishing House, #S14934, page 1

Vidal Sassoon

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary. -- Vidal Sassoon

Virginia Satir

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family. --Virginia Satir

Marilyn vos Savant

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. -Marilyn vos Savant

Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957)

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) In "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women," by Rosalie Maggio, 1994

Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play." ...Dorothy L. Sayers

It is curious that people who are filled with horrified indignation whenever a cat kills a sparrow can hear that story of the killing of God told Sunday after Sunday and not experience any shock at all. -- Dorothy Sayers

Not Herod, not Caiaphas, not Pilate, not Judas ever contrived to fasten upon Jesus Christ the reproach of insipidity; that final indignity was left for pious hands to inflict. To make of His story something that could neither startle, nor shock, nor terrify, nor excite, nor inspire a living soul is to crucify the Son of God afresh and put Him to an open shame.--Dorothy Sayers

For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is - limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death - he had the honesty and courage to take his own medicine. Whatever game, he is playing with his creation, he has kept his own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He has himself gone through the whole of human experience from trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death. When he was a man, he played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile. --DOROTHY SAYERS

Of late years, the Church has not succeeded very well in preaching Christ; she has preached Jesus, which is not quite the same thing. -- Dorothy Sayers

Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of the intelligentsia towards the spokesmen of Christian opinion. When I was a child, bishops expressed doubts about the Resurrection, and were called courageous. When I was a girl, G. K. Chesterton professed belief in the Resurrection, and was called whimsical. When I was at college, thoughtful people expressed belief in the Resurrection "in a spiritual sense", and were called advanced; (any other kind of belief was called obsolete, and its professors were held to be simpleminded). When I was middle-aged, a number of lay persons, including some poets and writers of popular fiction, put forward rational arguments for the Resurrection, and were called courageous. Today, any lay apologist for Christianity... whose works are sold and read, is liable to be abused in no uncertain terms as a mountebank, a reactionary, a tool of the Inquisition, a spiritual snob, an intellectual bully, an escapist, an obstructionist, a psychopathic introvert, an insensitive extrovert, and an enemy of society. The charges are not always mutually compatible, but the common animus behind them is unmistakable, and its name is fear. Writers who attack these domineering Christians are called courageous.--Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ. -- Dorothy Sayers

It is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality unless they are prepared to take their stand upon the fundamentals of Christian theology. -- Dorothy Sayers

Christ, in His divine innocence, said to the woman of Samaria, 'Ye worship ye know not what' -- being apparently under the impression that it might be desirable, on the whole, to know what one was worshipping. He thus showed Himself sadly out of touch with the twentieth century mind, for the cry today is: 'Away with the tedious complexities of dogma [doctrine] -- let us have the simple spirit of worship, no matter of what!' The only drawback to this demand is the practical difficulty of arousing any sort of enthusiasm for the worship of nothing in particular. -- Dorothy Sayers

Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.... Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)

Wallace Sayre

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.-- Wallace Sayre

Ann Ruth Schabacker

Each day brings its own gift. Untie the ribbon. - Ann Ruth Schabacker

Edith Schaeffer

It is so important not to waste what is precious by spending all one's time and emotion on fretting or complaining over what one does not have. - Edith Schaeffer

Francis Schaeffer knew when the Bible said 'in your anger do not sin' it implied anger itself was natural but striking out unfairly because of anger was wrong. Yet he suffered outbursts of anger his entire life, and in his anger Francis did sin, long after he accepted the authority of the Bible. In his freshman year in college in 1931 he snapped and pummeled an abusive upperclassman.
But his uncontrolled anger was no more evident than in 1937, in the second year of his marriage to Edith. Edith was expecting their first child. On one occasion he had to rush her to the hospital in his Model A Ford, only to learn it was false labor. Furious, he ranted at his exhausted wife's 'mistake'. A few weeks ater Priscilla was born but had to be resuscitated. This minor miracle mellowed Francis not at all. Priscilla was only two months old when Francis and Edith moved to another apartment. During the journey in the Model A Priscilla's attack of diarrhea and the subsequent smell triggered an abusive outburst by Francis. "Don't you even know how to put on diapers?" he screamed irrationally at Edith. Distracted, he rear-ended a car in front of them.
Francis Schaeffer once said he could not stand thisworld if he did not understand it was abnormal - that it was not the way God made it. Anger fueled much of his calling. But did Francis ever conquer his 'sinning in anger'? Yes and no. He became almost legendary in his patience with hostility during his countless speaking engagements. Yet evidence seems to indicate he still exploded in private with Edith and their four children - even to wailing and beating his fists on the wall.- Edith Schaeffer, The Tapestry 1981]

Francis Schaeffer

With the Christian answer it is now possible to understand that there are true moral absolutes. There is no law behind God, because the furthest thing back is God. The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The creation as He originally made it conformed to His character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.
Francis A Schaeffer., The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer, (Westchester,IL: Crossway Books) 1985.

In the last chapter of Death in the City, I point out that each person sits in one of two chairs &emdash; either the naturalist chair or the supernaturalist chair &emdash; and he perceives everything in the universe from the perspective of that chair. When an individual is born again, he moves from the former chair to the latter. The tragedy is that even after a Christian has affirmed the supernatural it is perfectly possible for him, in practice, to move back to the naturalist chair and spend most of the rest of his life there, seeing things from the same perspective as the world and living on the same basis. If a man does not believe the promises of God for salvation, we say he is in unbelief. The position of a Christian who sits in the naturalist chair is what I call unfaith. Many Christians live much of their lives there. - Francis Schaeffer, No Little People, Chapter 16

Jesus' teaching and the New Testament Church make plain that while there is 'the invisible Church', yet the Church is not to be hidden away, in an unseen area, as though it does not matter what men see. What we are called to do upon the basis of the unfinished work of Christ in the power of the Spirit through faith, is to exhibit a substantial healing, individual and then corporate, so that men may observe it. Here too is a portion of the apologetic: a presentation which gives at least some demonstration that these things are neither theoretical nor a new dialectic, but real; not perfect, yet substantial. If we only speak of and exhibit the individual effects of the Gospel, the world, psychologically conditioned as it is today, will explain them away. What the world cannot explain away will be a substantial, corporate exhibition of the logical conclusions of the Christian presuppositions. It is not true that the New Testament presents an individualistic concept of salvation. Individual, yes: we must come one at a time; but it is not individualistic only. First there must be the individual reality, and then the corporate. Neither will be perfect in this life, but they must be real.- F A Schaeffer, The God Who is There Section VI Chapter 1 pp. 153-154

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle. - Francis A Schaeffer, Knoxville L'Abri Conference

Those of us who are children of God must realize the seriousness of modern apostasy; we must urge each other not to have any part in it. But at the same time we must be the loving, true bride of the divine bridegroom in reality and in practice, day by day, in the midst of the spiritual adultery of our day. Our call is first to be the bride faithful, but that is not the total call. The call is not only to be the bride faithful, but also to be the bride in love.-Francis A. Schaeffer, _The Church Before the Watching World: A Practical Ecclesiology_ (Inter-varsity Press, Downers Grove, IL 60515, ISBN 0-87784-542-5

Several years ago I wrestled with the question of what was wrong with much of the church that stood for purity. I came to the conclusion that in the flesh we can stress purity without love or we can stress love without purity, but that in the flesh we cannot stress both simultaneously. In order to exhibit both simultaneously, we must look moment by moment to the work of Christ, to the work of the Holy Spirit. Spirituality begins to have real meaning in our moment-by-moment lives as we begin to exhibit simultaneously the holiness of God and the love of God.Francis A. Schaeffer, _The Church Before the Watching World: A Practical Ecclesiology_ (Inter-varsity Press, Downers Grove, IL 60515, ISBN 0-87784-542-5

We must stand clearly for the principle of the purity of the visible church, and we must call for the appropriate discipline of those who take a position which is not according to Scripture. But at the same time we must visibly love them as people as we speak and write about them. ... We must say that [they] are desperately wrong and that they require discipline in and by the church, but we must do so in terms that show it is not merely the flesh speaking. This is beyond us, but not beyond the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . with prayer both love, and concern for the truth, can be shown.. . . Francis A. Schaeffer, _The Church Before the Watching World: A Practical Ecclesiology_ (Inter-varsity Press, Downers Grove, IL 60515, ISBN 0-87784-542-5

. . . by God's grace, we must do two things simultaneously: We must do all that is necessary for the purity of the visible church to exhibit the holiness of God, and yet, no matter how bitter [they] become or what nasty things they say . . . , we must show forth the love of God in the midst of the strongest speaking we can do. If we let down one side or the other, we will not bear our testimony to God who is holy and who is love. Francis A. Schaeffer, _The Church Before the Watching World: A Practical Ecclesiology_ (Inter-varsity Press, Downers Grove, IL 60515, ISBN 0-87784-542-5

Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.- Francis A. Schaeffer

The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into merely maintaing the status quo. If it is true that evil is evil, that God hates it to the point of the cross, and that there is a moral law fixed in what God is in Himself, then Christians should be the first into the field against what is wrong. ... Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who is There [1968]

When we grieve Him, we push aside the One who is the agent to us of the work of Christ for our present life. On the basis of the finished, passive work of Christ (that is, His suffering on the cross), and on the basis of the active obedience of Christ (that is, His keeping the law perfectly through His life), the fruits are there. They are there to flow out through the agency of the Holy Spirit through us into the external world. The fruits are normal; not to have them is not to have the Christian life which should be considered usual. There are oceans of grace which wait. Orchard upon orchard waits; vineyard upon vineyard of fruit waits. There is only one reason why they do not flow out through the Christian‚s life, and that is that the instrumentality of faith is not being used. This is to quench the Holy Spirit. When we sin in this sense, we sin twice: we sin in the sin, and this is serious, as it is against the law and the character of God Himself, our Father; but at the same time we sin by omission, because we have not raised the empty hands of faith for the gift that is there.
In the light of the structure. of the total universe; in the light of our calling to exhibit the existence and character of God between the ascension and the second coming; in the light of the terrible price of the cross, whereby all the present and future benefits of salvation were purchased on our behalf ˜ in the light of all this, the real sin of the Christian is not to possess his possessions, by faith. This is the real sin.
But whatever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23b). The sin here is in not raising the empty hands of faith. - Francis Schaeffer

It is not we who overcome the world in our own strength. We do not have a power plant inside ourselves that can overcome the world. The overcoming is the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, as we have already seen. There can be a victory, a practical victory, if we raise the empty hands of faith moment by moment and accept the gift. „This is the victory that overcometh the world. God has promised, and the Bible has said, that there is a way to escape temptation. By God‚s grace we should want that escape.- Francis Schaeffer

We do not keep these commands to earn our salvation. Salvation comes only on the basis of the altar, which represented Christ‚s death in space and time. We must accept salvation with the empty hands of faith. Rather, the commands are the conditional statement in the midst of the unconditional promises. For example, do you as a Christian want to be forgiven existentially by God? Then have a forgiving heart toward other men. That is what Jesus was saying. - Francis Schaeffer

Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.- Francis Schaeffer

First of all, there was nothing autonomous in the area of final authority. For the Reformation, final and sufficient knowledge rested in the Bible ˜ that is, Scripture alone, in contrast to Scripture plus anything else parallel to the Scriptures, whether it be the Church or a natural theology. Second, there was no idea of man being autonomous in the area of salvation. In the Roman Catholic position there was a divided work of salvation ˜ Christ died for our salvation, but man had to merit the merit of Christ. Thus there was a humanistic element involved. The reformers said that there is nothing man can do; no autonomous or humanistic religious or moral effort of man can help. One is saved only on the basis of the finished work of Christ as He died in space and time in history, and the only way to be saved is to raise the empty hands of faith and, by God‚s grace, to accept God‚s free gift ˜ faith alone. It was Scripture alone and faith alone. - Francis Schaeffer

The historic Christian position concerning Genesis 1:1 is the only one which can be substantiated, the only one which is fair and adequate to the whole thrust of Scripture. "In the beginning" is a technical term stating the fact that at this point of sequence there is a creation ex nihilo--a creation out of nothing. All that is , except for God himself who already has been, now comes into existence. Before this there was a personal existence-- love and communication. Prior to the material universe (whether we think of it as mass or energy), prior to the creation of all else, there is love and communication. This means that love and communication are intrinsic. And hence, when modern man screams for love and communication (as he so frequently does), Christians have and answer: There is value to love and value to communication because it is rooted into what intrinsically always has been. - Francis A. Schaeffer , Genesis in Space and Time Chapter 1, part 4 (pp. 22-24)

We are considering here matters which lie far in the past and concern cosmic events. That raises a question: Can we really talk in a meaningful sense at all about them? It is helpful, first, to distinguish between true communication and exhaustive communication. What we claim as Christians is that, when all of the facts are taken into consideration, the Bible gives us true knowledge although not exhaustive knowledge. Man as finite creature is incapable of handling exhaustive knowledge anyway. There is an analogy here with our own communication between men; we communicate to each other truly, but we do not communicate exhaustively. A Christian holding the strongest possible view of inspiration still does not claim exhaustive knowledge at any point. - Francis A. Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time Chapter 2, part 3 pp. 35

As we look at the differentiations that occur when God says "Let it be this way," we can have confidence that this is true history, but that does not mean that the situation is exhaustively revealed or that all our questions are answered. This was the case with our forefathers; it is so for us and will be for everyone who comes after us. Indeed, as we stand before God in time to come, even as we see him face to face, his communication then --certainly being more than what we now have-- will still not be totally exhaustive, because we who are finite can never exhaust the infinite. What we know can be true and normative and yet not be a completely detailed map containing all of the knowledge which God himself has. Francis A. Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time Chapter 2, part 3 pp. 36

It is either not knowing or denying the createdness of things that is at the root of the blackness of modern man's difficulties. Give up creation as space-time, historic reality, and all that is left is what Simone Weil called uncreatedness. It is not that something does not exist, but that it just stands there, autonomous to itself, without solutions and without answers. Once one removes the createdness of all things, meaning and categories can only be some sort of leap, with or without drugs, into an irrational world. Modern man's blackness, therefore, rests primarily upon his losing the reality of the createdness of all things (all except the personal God who always has been). Francis A. Schaeffer, Genesis in space and time, Chapter 1, part 6b

Let us notice too that our praise to God is not first of all in the area of soteriology. If we are being fully scriptural, we do not praise him first because he saved us, but first because he is there and has always been there. And we praise him because he willed all other things, including man,into existence.
Therefore, when we read in Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," what a tremendous statement this becomes as we speak into the modern world! Upon this hangs any distinctively Christian answer which is going to be strong enough for men in the twentieth century.- Genesis in Space and Time by Francis A. Schaeffer Chapter 1, part 5 p27

Suppose you could take back everything in the world and compress it into a heavy molecule only three centimeters in each direction, and suppose that everything came from that. This is still no answer to man's basic problem, because it does not explain how that molecule came to be there or how from that molecule could come the form and complexity of the present universe, or something as personal and as mannish as man. For this the scriptural answer is needed. - Genesis in space and time by Francis A. Schaeffer Chapter 1, part 6 (pp27-29)

The higher the mountains, the more understandable is the glory of Him who made them and who holds them in His hand.-- Francis Schaeffer

Every generation of Christians has this problem of learning how to speak meaningfully to its own age. It cannot be solved without an understanding of the changing existential situation which it faces. If we are to communicate the Christian faith effectively, therefore, we must know and understand the thought forms of our own generation.--Francis A. Schaeffer (Escape From Reason, Introduction)

We must say that if evangelicals are to be evangelicals, we must not compromise our view of Scripture. There is no use in evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core -- namely, the Scriptures.
Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict

Here is the great evangelical disaster:the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this:accommodation. The evangelical church is worldly and not faithful to the living Christ. If the truth of the Christian faith is in fact truth, then it stands in antithesis to the ideas and the immorality of our age, and it must be practiced both in teaching and practical action. Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but it must be confrontation nonetheless.-- Francis Schaeffer

In saying God is there, we are saying God exists, and not just talking about the word God, or the idea God. We are speaking of the proper relationship to the living God who exists. In order to understand the problems of our generation, we should be very alive to this distinction. Semantics (linguistic analysis) makes up the heart of modern philosophical study in the Anglo-Saxon world. Though the Christian cannot accept this study as a total philosophy, there is no reason why he should not be glad for the concept that words need to be defined before they can be used in communication. As Christians, we must understand that there is no word so meaningless as the word "god" until it is defined. No word has been used to reach absolutely opposite concepts as much as the word "god". Consequently, let us not be confused. There is much "spirituality" about us today that would relate itself to the word god or to the idea god; but this is not what we are talking about. Biblical truth and spirituality is not a relationship to the word god, or to the idea god. It is a relationship to the one who is there, which is an entirely different concept. ... Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who is There [1968]

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.-- Francis Schaeffer, letter:, 2 Mar 1959

God has given us rules not because He is arbitrary, but because the rules...are fixed in His own character....Thus, when we sin we break the law of God...in the direction of destroying what we really are. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

It follows from [Samuel] Rutherford's thesis that citizens have a moral obligation to resist unjust and tyrannical government. While we must always be subject to the office of the magistrate, we are not to be subject to the man in that office who commands that which is contrary to the Bible. Rutherford suggested that there are three appropriate levels of resistance: First, he must defend himself by protest (in contemporary society this would most often be by legal action); second, he must flee if at all possible; and third, he may use force, if necessary, to defend himself. One should not employ force if he may save himself by flight; nor should one employ flight if he can save himself and defend himself by protest and the employment of constitutional means of redress. Rutherford illustrated this pattern of resistance from the life of David [fleeing from King Saul] as it is recorded in the Old Testament. The civil government, as all life, stands under the law of God...when any [political] office commands that which is contrary to the Word of God, those who hold that office abrogate their authority and they are not be obeyed. Justice is] based on God's written Law, back through the New Testament to Moses' written Law; and the content and authority of that written Law is rooted back to Him who is the final reality. Thus, neither church nor state were equal to, let alone above, that Law. The base for Law is not divided, and no one has the right to place anything, including king, state or church, above the contents of God's Law.
Francis August Schaeffer; his Christian Manifesto

Loyalty to organisations and movements has always tended over time to take the place of loyalty to the person of Christ. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help. -- Francis Schaeffer, 1984

One day all Christians will join in a doxology and sing God's praises with perfection. But even today, individually and corporately, we are not only to sing the doxology, but to be the doxology. Francis A. Schaeffer, No Little People

A Christian is a person who has the possibility of innumerable new starts. Francis Schaeffer

We must remember throughout our lives that in God's sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God's place for us, at each moment. -- Francis A. Schaeffer, No Little People, Ch. 1

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason. Francis A. Schaeffer, Pollution and the Death of Man, Ch. 4

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Francis Schaeffer

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal -- the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be. -- Francis A. Schaeffer, True Spirituality, Ch. 1

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Francis Schaeffer letter: 14 Jan 1972

Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

It is not for a moment that we can begin to get anywhere until the right doctrines are taught. But the right doctrines mentally assented to are not an end in themselves, but should only be the vestibule to a personal and loving communion with God. -- Francis A. Schaeffer, Letters Of Francis Schaeffer

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves. -- Francis Schaeffer

Every once in a while in my discussions someone asks how I can believe in the Trinity. My answer is always the same. I would still be an agnostic if there was no Trinity, because there would be no answers. Without the high order of personal unity and diversity as given in the Trinity, THERE ARE NO ANSWERS. F A Schaeffer He Is There And He Is Not Silent

We must appreciate that our Christian forefathers understood this very well in A.D. 325, when they stressed the three Persons in the Trinity, as the Bible had clearly set this forth. Let us notice that it is not that they invented the Trinity in order to give an answer to the philosophical questions which the Greeks of that time understood. It is quite the contrary. The unity and diversity problem was there, and the Christians realized that in the Trinity, as it had been taught in the Bible, they had an answer that no one else had. They did not invent the Trinity to meet the need; the Trinity was already there and it MET the need. They realized that in the Trinity we have what all these people are arguing about and defining but for which they have no answer.

Let us notice again that this is not the BEST answer; it is the ONLY answer. Nobody else, no philosophy, has ever given us an answer for unity and diversity. So when people ask whether we are embarrassed intellectually by the Trinity, I always switch it over into their own terminology -- unity and diversity. Every philosophy has this problem, and no philosophy has an answer. Christianity does have an answer in the existence of the Trinity. The only answer to what exists is that He, the triune God, is there. F A Schaeffer He Is There And He Is Not Silent

We need the full biblical content concerning God: that He is the infinite-personal God, and the triune God. Now let me express this in a couple of other ways. One way to say it is that without the infinite-personal God, the God of personal unity and diversity, there is no answer to the existence of what exists. We can say it in another way, however, and that is that the infinite-personal God, the God who is Trinity, has spoken. He is there, and He is not silent. There is no use having a silent God. We would not know anything about Him. He has spoken and told us what He is and that He existed before all else, and so we have the answer to the existence of what is. He is not silent. The reason we have the answer is because the infinite-personal God, the full Trinitarian God, has not been silent. He has told us who He is. Couch your concept of inspiration and revelation in these terms, and you will see how it cuts down into the warp and woof of modern thinking. HE IS NOT SILENT. That is the reason we know. It is because He has spoken. What has He told us? Has He told us only about other things? No, He has told us truth about Himself -- and because He has told us truth about Himself -- that He is the infinite-personal, triune God -- we have the answer to existence. Or we may put it this way: at the point of metaphysics -- of Being, of existence -- general and special revelation speak with one voice. All these ways of saying it are really expressing the same thing from slightly different viewpoints. In conclusion, man, beginning with himself, can define the philosophical problem of existence, but he cannot generate from himself the answer to the problem. The answer to the problem of existence is that the infinite-personal, triune God is there, and that the infinite-personal, triune God is not silent. -- F A Schaeffer He Is There And He Is Not Silent

In the area of morals, we have none of these answers except on the basis of a true, space-time, historic Fall. There was a time before the Fall, and then man turned from his proper integration point by choice; and in so doing, there was a moral discontinuity --- man became abnormal. Remove that and the Christian answer in the area of morals is gone. Often I find evangelicals playing games with the first half of Genesis. But if you remove a true, historic, space-time Fall, the answers do not exist. ("He is There and He is Not Silent", Francis Schaeffer)

Loyalty to organizations and movements has always tended over time to take the place of loyalty to the person of Christ.'
Francis Schaeffer, letter 12 Nov 1954

"Moreover whom he did predistinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified". Romans 8:30
"Observe the steps in salvation that Paul describes in these verses:
1) "Whom he did foreknow... ";
2) "...he also did predestinate" (verse 29);
3) "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called";
4) "And whom he called, them he also justified";
5)"And whom he justified, them he also glorified."
If God has chosen you, you're as good as in heaven now! If God has justified you, rest quietly, beloved, you will be in heaven.
Too often God's choosing is presented in such a cold theological fashion. It is treated as though it were merely a process of selection and elimination. But when Paul wrote these words, he had only one purpose: to give you assurance. If the idea of predestination is presented in such a way that it decreases your assurance, then it isn't being presented the way the Bible teaches it. The Bible only teaches about God's choosing in order to give you assurance of your salvation. If you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, your heart can be still. He'll carry you through the gates of glory.
Having spoken of God's assurance in choosing us for salvation, Paul now finds assurance in the fact that God sent His Son Jesus to die for us.
F.A. Schaeffer "The Finished Work of Christ" Crossway Books, 1998 p. 227

Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the Index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis: they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal, literary form, by ignoring its historical-grammatical exegesis, by changing the Bible's own perspective of itself as propositional revelation in space and time, in history.... Francis Schaeffer, Death in the City [1969]

An art work has value as a creation because man is made in the image of God, and therefore man not only can love and think and feel emotion, but also has the capacity to create. Being in the image of the Creator, we are called upon to have creativity. In fact, it is part of the image of God to be creative, or to have creativity. We never find an animal, non-man, making a work of art. On the other hand, we never find men anywhere in the world or in any culture in the world who do not produce art. Creativity is a part of the distinction between man and non-man. All people are to some degree creative. Creativity is intrinsic to our „mannishness.
But we must be careful not to reverse this. Not everything that man makes is good intellectually or morally. So, while creativity is a good thing in itself, it does not mean that everything that comes out of man‚s creativity is good. For while man was made in the image of God, he is fallen. Furthermore, since men have various gifts and talents, everyone cannot create everything equally well. However, the main point is that creativity as creativity is a good thing as such.--F A Schaeffer

We thus know something wonderful about man. Among other things, we know his origin and who he is --he is made in the image of God. Man is not only wonderful when he is 'born again' as a Christian, he is also wonderful as God made him in His image. Man has value because of who he was originally before the Fall.
I was recently lecturing in Santa Barbara, and was introduced to a boy who had been on drugs. He had a good-looking face, long curly hair, sandals on his feet and was wearing blue jeans. He came to hear my lecture and said, 'This is brand new, I've never heard anything like this.' So he was brought along the next afternoon, and I greeted him. He looked me in the eyes and said, 'Sir, that was a beautiful greeting. Why did you greet me like that?' I said, 'Because I know who you are --I know you are made in the image of God.' We then had a tremendous conversation. We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them o the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin--who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.-Francis A. Schaeffer, Escape from Reason Chapter 2 The Reformation and Man p 21

We must, furthermore, protest the notion of manifest destiny that permits our nation to do anything it chooses. For if we insist on alking down this road, than at some point--as God is God, the God in whose eyes there is real good and real evil--we who have trampled so completely on all of God's amazing gifts to this country are going to wake up and find that He cars very much what we do. We must not suppose that we are playing only intellectual and political games. If God exists, and if He judges good and evil, then we must realize that those who trample on His great gifts will one day know His judgment. The scriptures bear solemn witness to this. Our nation is not immune."- Francis A. Schaeffer, _Who Is For Peace?_ by Francis A. Schaeffer, Vladimir Bukovsky, and James Hitchcock.p. 19

Evangelical Christians need to notice, at this point, that the Reformation said 'Scripture Alone' and not 'the Revelation of God in Christ Alone'. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you really have no content in the word 'Christ' --and this is the modern drift in theology. Modern theology uses the word without content because 'Christ' is cut away from the Scriptures. The Reformation followed the teaching of Christ Himself in linking the revelation Christ gave of God to the revelation of the written Scriptures.
The Scriptures give the key to two kinds of knowledge --the knowledge of God, and knowledge of men and nature. The great Reformation confessions emphasize that God revealed His attributes to man in the Scriptures and that this revelation was meaningful to God as well as to man. There could have been no Reformation and no Reformation culture in Northern Europe without the realization that God had spoken to man in the Scriptures and that, therefore, we know something truly about God, because God has revealed it to man. - F A Schaeffer, Escape From Reason Ch. 2 A Unity of Nature and Grace pp21

God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us. Francis A. Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, p65:

Evangelism is a calling, but not the first calling. Building congregations is a calling, but not the first calling. A Christian's first call is to step from the line of Cain into the line of Abel, upon the basis of the shed blood of the Lamb of God &emdash; to return to the first commandment to love God, to love the brotherhood, and then to love one's neighbor as himself.-Schaeffer, Francis A., Genesis in Time and Space_, The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer, (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books) 1985.

The fact that man is fallen does not mean that he has ceased to bear God's image. He has not ceased to be man because he is fallen. He can love, though he is fallen. It would be a mistake to say that only a Christian can love. Moreover, a non-Christian painter can still paint beauty. And it is because they can still do these things that they manifest that they are God's image-bearers or, to put it another way, they assert their unique 'mannishness' as men.
So it is a truly wonderful thing that, although man is twisted and corrupted and lost as a result of the Fall, yet he is still man. He has become neither a machine nor an animal nor a plant. The marks of mannishness are still upon him-love, rationality, longing for significance, fear of non-being, and so on. This is the case even when his non-Christian system leads him to say these things do not exist. It is these things which distinguish him from the animal and plant world and from the machine.-Francis A. Schaeffer, Escape From Reason p.89

The primary emphasis of biblical Christianity is the teaching that the infinite-personal God is the final reality, the Creator of all else, and that an individual can come openly to the holy God upon the basis of the finished work of Christ and that alone. Nothing needs to be added to Christ's finished work, and nothing *can* be added to Christ's finished work. -- Francis Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. -- Francis Schaeffer

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. -- Francis Schaeffer

Just as the only basis for the removal of our guilt is the finished work of Christ upon the cross in history, plus nothing, so the only instrument for accepting that finished work of Christ upon the cross is faith. This is not faith in the twentieth-century or Kierkegaardian concept of faith as a jump in the dark --not a solution on the basis of faith in faith. It is believing the specific promises of God; no longer turning our backs on them, no longer calling God a liar, but raising the empty hands of faith and accepting that finished work of Christ as it was fulfilled in history upon the cross. The Bible says that at that moment we pass from death to life, from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God's dear Son. We become, inividually, children of God. We are children of God from that time on. I repeat, there is no way to begin the true Christian life except through the door of spiritual birth, any more than there is another way to begin physical life except through the door of physical birth. F A Schaeffer, True Spirituality, Chapter 1

[Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public demonstrations "Happenings". These paintings, these poems, and these demonstrations... are the expression of men who are struggling with their appalling lostness. Dare we laugh at such things? Dare we feel superior when we view their tortured expressions in their art? Christians should stop laughing and take such men seriously. Then we shall have the right to speak again to our generation. These men are dying while they live, yet where is our compassion for them? There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion. ... Francis A. Schaeffer, The God who is There [1968]

Christianity is the easiest religion in the world, because it is the only religion in which God does everything; it is the hardest religion because it robs us completely of being autonomous. - Francis Shaeffer--The God Who is There

Sanctification and assurance are comparable. A man may be saved and not know he is saved because he does not raise the empty hands of faith at this particular moment and believe God‚s promises. And a man may lack in sanctification all that God means him to have in the present life because even though Christ has purchased it for him upon the cross, he fails to believe God at this place and raise the empty hands of faith moment by moment. Now let me repeat, to be absolutely clear about it, the basis is not your faith; it is the finished work of Christ. Faith is the instrument to receive this thing from God that Christ has purchased for us. - Francis Schaeffer

The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. It has become fashionable today to say that, for better or worse, we live in "the post-Christian age." Certainly the forms of our thinking and language have largely ceased to be Christian, but to my eye the substance often remains amazingly akin to that of the past. Our daily habits of action, for example, are dominated by an implicit faith in perpetual progress which was unknown either to Greco-Roman antiquity or to the Orient. It is rooted in, and is indefensible apart from, Judeo-Christian teleology. The fact that Communists share it merely helps to show what can be demonstrated on many other grounds: that Marxism, like Islam, is a Judeo-Christian heresy. We continue today to live, as we have lived for about 1,700 years, very largely in a context of Christian axioms.- F A Schaeffer, The Church at the End of the 20th Century,

Harry Schaumburg

The victoms of pornography are boys and girls that have lost their innocence by viewing pornography at an early age. Wives of men preoccupied with pornography and the sex industry. Women who are being treated with disrespect and sexually abused. Young women trapped in an industry that exploits them and uses them as mere sex objects. Children used for the sexual satisfaction of fathers, stepfathers, and men they trusted. Young men exposed to a false image of sexuality. Men who just can't stop using pornography or stimulating themselves while recalling those images. A society that has become desensitized and dependent upon sex-charged images. Neighborhoods that have increased crime and decreased property values because of the proliferation of pornography in their communities. - Harry Schaumburg

Felix E. Schelling

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius." -Felix E. Schelling

Michael Scheuer

There are a lot of people who say he hates our freedoms, as you said, or hates our liberties, and hates us for what we are, rather than what we do.That is a very common piece of analysis. And I think it is entirely wrong. Bin Laden has resonance in the Muslim world because he has focused his dislike for the things we do, not what we are.
It is a very clear policy. None of it has to do with ephemeral things or slogans. It has to do with very clear-cut, concrete things. And I think that is why he is so effective in the Muslim world. He has picked a numbers of items that, whether you are, however you term it a moderate, a conservative, or a liberal Muslim, there is a certain amount of sympathy for the goals bin Laden has enunciated.
Any individual who continues to tell the American people that Osama bin Laden is simply a more lethal than usual gangster, or that he only represents the lunatic fringe of the Muslim world, or that this war has nothing to do with religion, as long as they keep spouting that sort of analysis, they will be giving the American people the wrong idea
We're clearly engaged, if not in a war against Islam, in a war against a substantial number of Muslims who are mad at us for policy reasons," he continued. "It's a war that's not going to end any time soon. And we really need to at least appreciate the motivation behind it before we're going to be able to cope with it and ultimately defeat it. - CIA Bin Laden specialist Michael Scheuer, formerly, Anonymous, author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror from a VOA interview http://www.voanews.com/english/2004-11-17-voa73.cfm

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience. --Schiller, _The Death of Wallenstein_, 1799

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich von Schiller

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change! -J.C.F. von Schiller

Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829)

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) In "The Ultimate Success Quotations Library

Schleiermacher

Protestantism makes the relation of a man to the Church to depend upon his relation to Christ; Romanism makes the relation of a man to Christ to depend on his relation to the Church. -- Schleiermacher

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The great appeal of fatalism is as a refuge from the terror of responsibility. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

If we let the international police action against terrorism degenerate into a civilizational war of the West versus Islam, we are heading toward catastrophe. The last thing we need is a counter-jihad to respond to the jihad invoked against us by the pals of Bin Laden. Bin Laden has set a trap for the United States. Let us not walk into it. ~Arthur Schlesinger Jr, (Sept 23, 2001)

Laura Schlesinger (1947 &endash; )

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.-- Laura Schlesinger

Sue Schmacher

Don't tell God how big your problems are...tell your problems how big your God is. - Sue Schmacher

Helmut Schoeck

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.-- Helmut Schoeck

Caroline Schoeder

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.--Caroline Schoeder

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

On a cold winter's day, a group of porcupines huddled together to stay warm and keep from freezing. But soon they felt one another's quills and moved apart. When the need for warmth brought them closer together again, their quills again forced them apart. They were driven back and forth at the mercy of their discomforts until they found the distance from one another that provided both a maximum of warmth and a minimum of pain.In human beings, the emptiness and monotony of isolated self produces a need for society. This brings people together, but their many offensive qualities and intolerable faults drive them apart again. The optimum distance that they finally find and that permits them to coexist is embodied in politeness and good manners. Because of this distance between us, we can only partially satisfy our need for warmth, but at the same time, we are spared the stab of one another's quills.--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)From _Parerga_, Vol II, 413 (4th edition)

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. --Arthur Schopenhauer, _Position_, 1851

If you want to discover your true opinion of anybody, observe the impression made on you by the first sight of a letter from him. - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788 - 1860

The years pass more quickly as we become older. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_ [1851], "Counsels and Maxims"

The chief objection I have to pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word world.--Arthur Schopenhauer, _A Few Words On Pantheism_, 1851

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ~Arthur Schopenhauer , Parerga and Paralipomena: Selected essays (1851)

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Schopenhauer

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it s opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. Schopenhauer

Console yourself
by remembering
that the world
doesn't deserve
your affection
Schopenhauer

Robert Schuller

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert Schuller

Charles Schulz

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRS (video recorders), and we could "fast forward' through the crummy times?--Charles Schulz, Peanuts.

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! --Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

Lucy: Do you think anybody ever really changes?
Linus: I've changed a lot in the last year.
Lucy:I mean for the better.--Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) ("Peanuts" comic strip)

There is a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. --Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) Lucy:I mean for the better.--Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) ("Peanuts" comic strip)

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
Charlie Brown--C Schulz, Peanuts.

Exercise is a dirty word... Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.-- Lucy Van Pelt , Peanuts, Charles M Schulz

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown: No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better.-- C Shulz, Peanuts

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. -Charles Schulz

No problem is too big it can't be run away from. Linus

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.-- Snoopy

There is no heavier burden than a great potential. --Linus, "Peanuts"

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. "Peanuts", Charles M. Schulz

I love mankind.....It's PEOPLE I can't stand!!........" - LINUS in Peanuts by Charles Schulz

Carl Schurz

Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. ~ Carl Schurz

Charles M. Schwab

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism." - Charles M. Schwab

I never criticize anyone. The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. Charles Schwab

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Albert Schweitzer (1875 &endash; 1965)

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. -- Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.- Albert Schweitzer, 1875 - 1965

Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it's the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer, 1875 - 1965

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer

I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you; but one thing I know ‚ the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve. -Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Hazel Scott (1920-1981)

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it Hazel Scott (1920-1981) Interview, Dec 1972; in "Notes and Tones," by Arthur Taylor, 1977.

Robert Falcon Scott (1868 &endash; 1912)

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. - Robert Falcon Scott (1868 &endash; 1912), on his doomed Antarctic expedition

Thomas Scott

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. - Thomas Scott

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity. --Sir Walter Scott

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832. Marmion. Canto vi.Stanza 17.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand?
Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832. Canto vi. Stanza 1.

There is a young madman proposing to light the streets of London-with what do you suppose-with smoke!
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) [On a proposal to light cities with gaslight.

Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.-- Walter Scott

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832. Marmion. Canto vi.Stanza 17.

Roger Scruton

A writer who says there are no truths, or that all truth is merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't. --Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy.

In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own -...Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest, ISI Books, 2002 p81

....the difference between the west and the rest is that western societies are governed by politics;the rest are ruled by power.- Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest, ISI Books, 2002, p 7

Each of them (Foucault,Derrida,Rorty) owes his reputation to a kind of religious faith: faith in the relativity of all opinions, including this one. - Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest, ISI Books, 2002, p 75

Like the Communist Party in its Leninist construction, Islam aims to control the state without being subject to the state.- Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest, ISI Books, 2002, p 6

If all that Western civilization offers is freedom, then it is a civilization bent on its own destruction. - Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest, ISI Books, 2002, p v111

"There are no truths," he (Nietzsche) wrote. "only interpetations." Now, either what Nietzsche said is true - in which case it is not true, since there are no truths - or it is false. - Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest, ISI Books, 2002, p 74

William Secker

Neither be idle in the means, nor make an idol of the means. WILLAIM SECKER

Jerry Seinfeld

I know I'm not going to understand women.I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it on to your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root...and still be afraid of spiders~Jerry Seinfeld

John Selden (1584-1654)

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.~John Selden 1584-1654, Table Talk, LIV

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. John Selden (1584-1654)

Peter Sellers

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Peter Sellers.

W.C.Sellar and R.J.Yeatman

Every schoolmaster knows that for everyone person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty who don't want to learn... much. ~ W.C.Sellar and R.J.Yeatman , And Now All This, `Introduction', 1932

Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive)
W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That:

Chapter 62.A Bad Thing.
America was thus clearly top nation , and History came to a .
W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman , Final wordsof "1066 and All That" (explanatory note: "." is pronounced, full stop, not , period.)

James was always repeating, "No Bishop, no King," to himself, and one day a certain loyal citizen called Sir Guyfawkes, a very active and conscientious man, overheard him, and thought it was the slogan of James's new policy. So he decided to carry it out at once and made a very loyal plan to blow up the King and the bishops and everybody else in Parliament. Although the plan failed, attempts are made every year on St. Guyfawkes' Day to remind the Parliament that it would have been a _Good Thing_. -- W. C. Sellars and R. S. Yeatman, _1066 And All That_

Maurice Sendak (1928 &endash; )

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak

Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it. -- Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient. -Seneca

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)_Epistolae Ad Lucilium_, XCII

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.... Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms. ~Seneca: De Ira, Bk.III, sec.26

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.-- Seneca

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view --Seneca

The trip doesn't exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears. If it did, the human race wold be off there in a body.
Seneca, _Epistles_, 1stC

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)_Epistles_

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)

Victor Serge (1890-1947)

"All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?" - Victor Lvovich Khibalchich ,(1890-1947) (better known as Victor Serge)
Note: This statement was made after visiting Russia, to the pro-Leninist sentiment in the global left. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Serge

Robert Service

My pipe is out, my glass is dry;
My fire is almost ashes too;
But once again, before you go,
And I prepare to meet the New;
Old Year! a parting word that's true,
For we've been comrades, you and I--
I thank God for each day of you;
There! bless you now! Old Year, good-bye!
-Robert W. Service

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.--Robert W. Service

Anna Sewell (1820-1878)

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.-- Anna Sewell (1820-1878): "Black Beauty," 1877.

Brian Sewell

I am sick of shit masquerading as art. Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize, 1998, Evening Standard

Charles Seymour (1885-1963)

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. ---Charles Seymour (1885-1963) in James B. Simpson (ed.) _Simpson's Contemporary Quotations_ (1988) p. 115

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man. -Anthony Shaftesbury

God give me divine grace to stem the awful advance of saucy rationalism. Lord Shaftesbury, quoted by Barbara Tuchman, Bible and Sword.

What we ask is simply this, that the Bible and the teaching of the Bible to the children of this vast Empire shall be an essential and not an extra. That religious teaching shall be carried on within school hours, not without school hours... What! Exclude by Act of Parliament religious teaching from schools founded, supported by public rates! Declare that the revealed Word of God and religious teaching shall be exiled to the odds and ends of time, and that only at such periods shall any efforts be devoted to the most important part of the education of the youth of this Empire! It is an outrage upon the national feelings, and, more than this, it is, without exception, the grossest violation of the rights of religious liberty that was ever perpetrated, or even imagined, in the worst times by the bigotry of any Government whatever, foreign or domestic. -- Lord Shaftesbury , On the 1870 Education Act:

William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.-- William Shakespeare

lLet me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alterations finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempest and is never shaken;
It is the star to very wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
WillIam Shakespeare

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame. Shakespeare

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. -- William Shakespeare

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.--William Shakespeare

O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! - William Shakespeare

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. -- William Shakespeare

Everyone can master a grief but he that hath it.- Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Sonnets_ [1609], Sonnet 104, line 1

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. William Shakespeare. All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Tis sunstantial happiness to eat - WS, As You Like It.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare _As You Like It_, Act II, Scene 1, line 12

O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
When none will sweat but for promotion
W.S., As You Like It, III

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety, other women cloy~
Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Act II, sc. ii

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Act i. Sc.2

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Hamlet_ [1600-1601], Act I, Scene III, Line 47

Neither a borrower nor a lender be
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
Wm Shakespeare, Polonius: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3

This above all, to thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)

It is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance.-- Shakespeare, Hamlet, I,iv,15.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
Hamlet's soliloquy in Act II, Scene i.

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Hamlet Act ii. Sc. 2.

Brevity is the soull of wit. - Ws Hamlet ac2,sc2,li70

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me - nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, lines 303-310.

I must be cruel only to be kind.--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Hamlet_ [1600-1601], act iii, sc.iv, ln. 178

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Hamlet, Act III

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
Hamlet Act iv. Sc. 3.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Hamlet_ [1600-1601], Act iv, Sc.5, Ln. 43

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions! --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) _Hamlet_ [1600-1601], Act IV, Sc.5, Ln. 78

Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Shakespeare Hamlet act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

HAMLET
O, I die, Horatio!
The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England,
But I do prophesy th' election lights
On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited-- The rest is silence.

HORATIO.
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Shakespeare, 'Hamlet', V, ii

Out of this nettle danger we pluck this flower safety -- Shakespeare, Henry IV pt 1

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished for come.
W Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man and therefore more fraility ~William Shakespeare 1564-1616, Henry IV (1597)

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Shakespeare Henry V

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.-- Shakespeare, Henry V

The game's afoot.
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"
William Shakespeare (1564Ð1616), King Henry, in Henry V, act 3, sc. 1, l. 32-4 (1600).

The older I wax the better I shall appear. ~WS, Henry V , 5.2

Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) _King Henry VI_, Part II [1590-1591]; Act II, Scene I

We are advertised by our loving friends. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
Shakespeare, _Henry VIII_

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!
This is the state of man: today he puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrows blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
And then he falls, as I do.
William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, III,ii.351

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones--
So let it be with Caesar
Mark Antony's speech in "Julius Caesar".

Brutus: Who is here so vile that will not love his country? --Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"It was Greek to me." Cassius in _Julius Caesar_, Shakespeare.

Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war. Antony, "Julius Caesar", Act 3, Scene I, William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
|The valiant never taste of death but once.
Shakespeare---Julius Caesar

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Julius Caesar_ [1599], Act I, Scene ii, Line 191

For courage mounteth with occasion.... William Shakespeare (King John)

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare. King John. Act iii. Sc. 4

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. --Shakespeare, _King Lear_

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_King Lear_ [1605], Act I, Scene iv, Line 371

Abstinence engenders maladies. ~W.S. Love's Labours Lost, IV,3

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare. Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc.

If yo can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me.-- William Shakespeare, _Macbeth_

There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face.- William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Macbeth

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Shakespeare: Macbeth, Act II, Scene 2

PORTER: Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
MACDUFF: What three things does drink especially provoke?
PORTER: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
Shakespeare, Macbeth, 2:iii

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Third Witch
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
Shakespeare ,Macbeth , Act 4, Scene 1

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Macbeth III, iv,
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Shakespeare, Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5S

Macbeth: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Doctor: Therein the patient Must minister to himself.
Shakespeare., Macbeth

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? -- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you wrong us
shall we not revenge?
~ WS, The Merchant of Venice, III,i

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) _Othello_ Act II, Scene iii, Line 34

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice.Act iv. Sc. 1

Why then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. - William Shakespeare *The Merry Wives of Windsor* II, 2

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never;
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. William Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? ~W.S., Much Ado About Nothing II,iii (1598)

No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog
And smote him, thus.

Stabs himself.
Othello

Poor and content is rich and rich enough. William Shakespeare. Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3..

How poor are they that have not patience! --William Shakespeare. Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! --William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Othello_ Act II, Scene iii, Line 293

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.-- Shakespeare, Richard II

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.William Shakespeare. King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.

This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Shakespeare, Richard II act 1, sc 4

But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_King Richard III_ [1592-1593], Act I, Scene III, Line 334

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! -- Wm Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, scene iv.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
William Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 2.

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) _The Tempest_ [1611-1612], Act I, Scene I

Our revels now are ended. These our actors
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Shakespeare, THE TEMPEST, Act IV, scene 1 (spoken by Prospero).

Things in motion sooner catch the eye
Than what not stirs.
W.S. , Troilus & Cressida, 3.3.1

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona

Lawn as white as driven snow. -- Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, iv, iii [220

I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks, and ever thanks.
William Shakespeare, _Twelfth-Night_, Act III, sc. 3

Wendy Shallit

Modesty is the proof morality is sexy. -- Wendy Shallit

Bill Shankly

They say Football's a matter of life and death - but it's more important than that - Bill Shankly

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves. - Shankly

Natan Sharansky

Nearly 20 years ago, confined to an 8-by-10 cell in a prison on the border of Siberia, I was granted by my Soviet jailers the 'privilege' of reading the latest copy of Pravda, the official mouthpiece of the Communist regime. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an 'evil empire.' Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, prisoners quickly spread the word of Reagan's 'provocation' throughout the prison. The dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth--a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us. --Natan Sharansky, "Afraid of the Truth", _The Washington Post_, October 12, 2000

George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

[Chess is] a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. G.B.Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-- George Bernard Shaw, 'Man and Superman,' ``Maxims for Revolutionists''

The British are made up of four races:
- The Welsh, who pray on their knees and their neighbors;
- The Scots, who keep the Sabbath and anything else they can lay their hands on;
- The Irish, who don't know what they want but are willing to die for it;
- And the English, who consider themselves a race of self-made men, thereby relieving the Almighty of a dreadful responsibility. -- George Bernard Shaw

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.-- George Bernard Shaw

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes. -- G. B. Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. --George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it..It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman despise him. --George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. G.B.Shaw "Maxims for Revolutionists"

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life--being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. G B Shaw

A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul -- George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation. George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -- George Bernard Shaw

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Life to me is no brief candle; it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw, MAN AND SUPERMAN.

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measure anew each time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect them to fit me. -- George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.~ George Bernard Shaw, Candida I

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) 'Back to Methuselah' 1921

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.-George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. -- George Bernard Shaw

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. ~GBS

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)_The Doctor's Dilemma_ [1913]

George Sheehan

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. --George Sheehan (1918-1993)_Personal Best_ [1989], "The Many Levels of Motivation."

Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, 'Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.' The real fear should be of the opposite course." - Gail Sheehy

Fulton J. Sheen (1895 &endash; 1979)

To say we want no dogmas in religion is to assert a dogma.--Fulton J. Sheen, _Religion Without God_, 1928

We do not have to fear atomic bombs; but we do have to fear godless men. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Thoughts For Daily Living_ [1955]

Resolutions, like the good, die young. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Thinking Life Through_ [1955]

Christmas is not for sophomores who live under the illusion that they read all of Darwin, or for the intelligentsia. . . or for the self-wise who think Marx is wiser than Mark. It is only for the very learned, the great scientists, the profound theologians who are heirs of the wise men who discovered Wisdom.
At the other end of the spectrum are the simple who know nature better than books, who have insights deeper than the impure and a vision which sees in the night. These are the heirs of the shepherds who find their way to the Shepherd of their souls. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Christmas Inspirations_ [1984], Chapter 34

The modern atheist is always angered when he hears anything said about God and religion. He would be incapable of such a resentment if God were only a myth. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Peace of Soul_ [1954]

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.--Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979)_On Being Human_ [1982]

Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors where he is always confronted with self. Sex does not care about the person, but about the act. The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Those Mysterious Priests_ [1974]

All quarrels, disagreements, wars, strifes, and dissensions begin with a false declaration of independence--independence from God and independence from fellowman. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Seven Words To The Cross_ [1944]

A popular God-is-dead book in the United States argues that homosexuality will become normal in a humanistic society where there is no restriction of morals which come from religion. St. Paul declared homosexuality and atheism were related to one another as effect to cause. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Footprints in a Darkened Forest_ [1967]

The basic reason why moderns disbelieve in hell is because they really disbelieve in freedom and responsibility. To believe in hell is to assert that the consequences of good and bad acts are not indifferent. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Preface To Religion_ [1946]

There are three possible kinds of God: the god of one's own ego, in which the atheist believes, and which is also the god of modern confusionism; the god of nature, of stone and gold and silver, which belonged to the old religions of idolatry; and the Supreme God, who made both man and nature, and redeemed them both upon the cross. Those who tell us that they deny the existence of God are merely substituting one god for another. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _On Being Human_ [1982]

Do not mock the Gospels and say there is no Satan. Evil is too real in the world to say that. Do not say the idea of Satan is dead and gone. Satan never gains so many cohorts, as when, in his shrewdness, he spreads the rumor that he is long since dead.
Do not reject the Gospel because it says the Saviour was tempted. Satan always tempts the pure--the others are already his. Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.
Do not say it was absurd that Satan should appear to Our Lord, for Satan must always come close to the godly and the strong--the others succumb from a distance. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _The Eternal Galilean_ [1936]

A Jew knows that anti-Semitism is not due to Christianity, because he knows that his people were persecuted before the advent of Christianity. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Love One Another_ [1944}

In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen men through the eyes of faith. Faith teaches that all men, however poor, or ignorant, or crippled, however maimed, ugly, or degraded they may be, all bear within themselves the image of God, and have been bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. As this truth is forgotten, men are valued only because of what they can do, not because of what they are.--Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979)_Preface To Religion_ [1946]

No Christian hates the Jews because of the Crucifixion related in the Gospels--any more than the British hate the Americans because of the Declaration of Independence. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Love One Another_ [1944}

The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _A Declaration Of Dependance_ [1941]

The crown of thorns is the condition of the crown of glory.--Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979)

Modernized, the Easter message means that God recycles human garbage. He can turn prostitutes like Magdalene into disciples, broken reeds like Simon Peter into rocks, and political-minded Simon Zealots into martyrs for the faith. God is the God of the second chance.-Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979)_Those Mysterious Priests_ [1974]

The sun refused to shine on the crucifixion. The light that rules the day, probably for the first and last time in history, was snuffed out like a candle when, according to every human calculation, it should have continued to shine. The reason was that the crowning crime of man, the killing of nature's Lord, could not pass without a protest from nature itself. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _The Seven Last Words_ [1935]

The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _The Cross and the Beatitudes_ [1937]

Some day a politician will arise who will be so devoted to truth that he will follow it, knowing that by doing so, he will go down to defeat. That day will be the restoration of politics as principles; it will also be the rebirth of a nation. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Way to Inner Peace_ [1955]

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.--Fulton J. Sheen

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.-Fulton J. Sheen

If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979)_On Being Human_ [1982]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. --Mary Wollstonecraft

Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822

The moon of Mahomet
Arose, and it shall set;
While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,
The cross leads generations on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822. Hellas. Line 221.

One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it;
One feeling too falsely disdain'd
For thee to disdain it.
Percy Shelley

All love is sweet,
Given or returned.
Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still.
Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822 Prometheus Unbound. Act ii. Sc. 5.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survived, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Oxymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley:

There are *two* Italies...The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man ; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - *garlick*
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Letter, Naples, 22 Dec 1818

Massey H. Shepherd, Jnr

The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts -- to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign for ever. Massey H. Shepherd, Jnr., Far and Near

Michael Shermer

In order for [a] monkey to type the thirteen letters opening Hamlet's soliloquy [-- To be or not to be --] by chance, it would take 26 to the power of 13 trials for success. This is sixteen times as great as the total number of seconds that have elapsed in the lifetime of our solar system.
Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of our Time, 1997

Harry Sherer

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure - Harry Sherer

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 &endash; 1816)

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. -Richard Brinsley Sheridan on Henry Dundas.

Thomas Sheridan (1719 - 88)

A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men.-- Thomas Sheridan, _ Life of Swift_ (of Johnson)

Alfred Sherman

The Muslims remain Muslims first, and colonists from their region of origin second. They cannot become Englishmen or Britons, in any sense other than the technical. To say that they are Muslims first does not imply criticism or 'Islamophobia', but is a simple fact of life. So far, there are no signs in the Muslim world of the secularisation which has affected large parts of the Christian world, for better or worse, for the longer or shorter term. Nor is national or nationalist feeling, as we know it in the West, highly developed, except among Turks and Kurds. Your Muslim remains homo religiosus. - Sir Alfred Sherman, Islam in Britain, Right Now!, June 2002.

The vast majority of Muslims here are torn between world Muslim solidarity and the desire to preserve their status here. They have been given an easy ride, no bad thing perhaps, but they should not be encouraged to push their luck too far. I repeat my earlier assertion that the main problem is not the Muslims - or for that matter Hindus, Sikhs, Africans, Chinese, etc - but the British, who have lost a sense of identity which stood them in good stead for centuries, and the will to preserve it. The Muslim problem is our creation. - Sir Alfred Sherman, Islam in Britain, Right Now!, June 2002.

The Muslims claim to faith schools should not be a bone of contention. If Christian parents have the right to a religion-based education for their children why not Muslim taxpayers? One does not have the right to impose forcible mixing and, in any case, given residential segregation, it would not work anyway. Having made the bed of mass alien immigration, we must lie on it. - Sir Alfred Sherman, Islam in Britain, Right Now!, June 2002.

We need full and frank discussion of the problems created by the Muslim presence free from blackmailing accusations of 'xenophobia', 'Islamophobia' or 'racism'. A nation's future and society's peace are at stake. - Sir Alfred Sherman, Islam in Britain, Right Now!, June 2002.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War's legitimate object is more perfect peace - William Tecumseh Sherman

James Shirley (1596-166 )

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