"No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain."

“People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.”

“Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.”

“Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.”

“Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.”

Source : Daniel G. Amen, M.D. (2010). “Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted”, p.18, Harmony

“Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!”

“Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the "living water," we miss the joy we could have.”

Source : Marion D. Hanks (1974). “The Gift of Self”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

“What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.”

“All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.”