Nikephoros of Chios quotes

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.
-- Nikephoros of Chios

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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

Beer is proof that God loves us.

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!