"It's funny how grand aspirations fall away quickly when you know what God made you to do." --Mike Messerli

"He loves it when we, gripped with doubt and fear that he will not be enough, turn the gaze of our souls to him in hope. He loves to prove himself faithful and more than enough to satisfy our hungry souls. When we do turn to him, our souls rest and we are saved. Again. And again." --?

Lloyd: I said, "Do you love me?" and she said, "No, but that's a really nice ski mask."

Harry: But he blamed me. You heard him. Those were his last words.
Lloyd: Not if you count the gurgling sound.

Harry: According to the map we've only gone 4 inches.

Lloyd: Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.

Lloyd: Hey guys. Oh, big gulps huh? All right! Well, see ya later.

Harry: One time, we successfully mated a bulldog with a Shih-Tzu.
Mary: Really? That's strange.
Harry: Yeah, we called it a bullshit.

--Dumb and Dumber

"there is a war on! how is it you are heading west?" "well, we sort of face north and then, real subtlelike, turn left."
--Last of the Mohicans

"there are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them." --J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

" We let our children define us, rather than understanding who we are and what we're about and letting them figure out who they are and what they're about. The parenting task should be giving them a road map and shining a light down the path, not hacking away the weeds and vines and doing the dirty work for them." --Brent McKinney

"James Bond never had to put up with this sort of shit." --Notting Hill

"Goodnight, my someone. Goodnight, my love. Sleep tight, my someone. Sleep tight, my love. Our star is shining its brightest light. For goodnight, my love, for goodnight. Sweet dreams be yours, dear, if dreams there be. Sweet dreams to carry you close to me. I wish they may and I wish they might. Now goodnight, my someone, goodnight. "True love can be whispered from heart to heart, when lovers are parted," they say. But I must depend on a wish and a star as long as my heart doesn't know who you are. Sweet dreams be yours, dear, if dreams there be. Sweet dreams to carry you close to me. I wish they may and I wish they might. So goodnight, my someone, goodnight!" --The Music Man

"Oh wow, that was a moderately clever retort."

'When you're at your absolute lowest, your most depressed, just remember that you can always...you know...you have my number."

"I've lost my keys. Where are they?"

"We'll find each other...we always find each other..."

"What is this, the flirting corner?"

Sydney: You know any jokes? Because I could use one.
Vaughn: This grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Hey, we have a drink named after you." And the grasshopper says...
Sydney: You have a drink named Doug?
Vaughn: Well, I was gonna use Phil.

--ALIAS

"There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness."
"Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?"
"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on."
"There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
"It is important to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated."
"Well, it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius."
"In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
"It’s the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
"And now Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
"we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!"
" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...and I seem to have forgotten lately."
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
"And now I have a few words to say. And they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
--J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter...spoken by Albus Dumbledore

"A media-saturated culture conditions us to expect a quick-fix to every problem. Relationship problems, however, rarely lend themselves to quick and easy solutions. I have not seen, for instance, that shelves of books on 'how to save your marriage' have had any discernable effect on divorce rates. If relating to another person proves so resistant to formulaic advice, how much more does relating to God? The secret to keeping company with God will likely not be found in a new set of tapes, another book, a different preacher, a weekend seminar.

After reading scores of books and interviewing scores of people about prayer, I would expect a more noticable improvement on my own prayer life. If I invested the same energy in say, golf or learning a foreign language, I would likely see results. Still, I find that prayer involves an effort of will. Sometimes it proves rewarding, sometimes not, at least that I can detect at the time. Prayer requires faith to believe that God listens, though I have no hard evidence, and that prayers matter. Neither belief comes easy to me." --Phillip Yancey