Westcott Quotes

#1. Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.

Brooke Foss Westcott

#2. Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#3. The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one

Edward Noyes Westcott

#4. The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.

Brooke Westcott

#5. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.

Brooke Foss Westcott

#6. Please remember that pleasing another is not the same as caring for another.

Debbie Ford

#7. What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

Brooke Foss Westcott

#8. Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

Virginia Henley

#9. I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#10. There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

Brooke Westcott

#11. The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

Brooke Westcott

#12. A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#13. It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

E.L. Doctorow

#14. Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Lily Tomlin

#15. If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.

Edward Noyes Westcott

#16. Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

Henri Nouwen

#17. Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

Yehuda Bauer

#18. Westcott lived in the most perilous zone between waking and night - the shadowlands of watching and waiting, questioning and listening. He lived in the glade of remembrance." - from Who Has Known Heights

Wheston Chancellor Grove

#19. Apparently my subconscious freaked out when I saw blood on the vet's coat and then I abruptly passed out right on my cat. (That's not a euphemism.)

Jenny Lawson