Coggan Quotes

#1. Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15

Calvin Miller

#2. Excuses are like butt holes everyone has 'em and they all stink.

Lois Greiman

#3. A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

George Eastman

#4. Learn from the past, be thankful for the past, forgive the mistakes of the past, and let it go.

Debasish Mridha

#5. What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Larry Wall

#6. Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

Brenda Ueland

#7. When you're young, you have all these things to worry about - should
you go there, what about your mother. And you worry, and try to decide, but
then something else comes up. It's much easier to just plain decide. Never
mind - nothing is going to change your mind.

Richard Feynman

#8. My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Donald Coggan

#9. I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think.

Donald Coggan

#10. A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

Charles Lamb

#11. To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

Vannevar Bush