Illustrating Bible Quotes

#1. Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]

Abraham Calovius

#2. I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.

R.J. Palacio

#3. For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Anton Chekhov

#4. The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.

Karl Schroeder

#6. One of the major differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.

Grant Cardone

#7. It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

Oswald Chambers

#8. Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI

#9. If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.

K.D. Harp

#10. You are killing me, fish...

Ernest Hemingway,