Great Quotes

Below are some of my favorite thought provoking quotes.

May my words and my thoughts
be acceptable in your sight,
O LORD, my sheltering rock and my redeemer. — God (through King David), Psalm 19.14 (NET)

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. — Unknown

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. — C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. — C. S. Lewis

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven. — God, Matthew 6.1 (NET)

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. — C. S. Lewis

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. — C. S. Lewis

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Little by little, one travels far. — J. R. R. Tolkien