YNWA: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

30/07/2009

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Proverbs
27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.
28:1 The wicked person flees when there is no one pursuing, but the righteous person is as confident as a lion.
QUOTES
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom." Albert Einstein
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." George Bernard Shaw
"It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf." French proverb
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious." George Bernard Shaw
"Be friends with the wolf, but keep one hand on your axe" Russian Proverb
"My way of joking is to tell the truth, because the truth is the funniest joke in the world." George Bernard Shaw
"I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?" Martin Lawrence

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*SCIENCE VS GOD*

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-'Let me explain the problem - science has with Jesus Christ.' The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.
-'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'
-'Yes sir,' the student says.
-'So you believe in God?'
-'Absolutely.'
-'Is God good?'
-'Sure! God's good.'
-'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'
-'Yes.'
-'Are you good or evil?'
-'The Bible says I'm evil.'
The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible!' He considers for amoment. 'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'
-'Yes sir, I would.'
-'So you're good...!' 'I wouldn't say that.' 'But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't.'
The student does not answer, so the professor continues. 'He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, eventhough he prayed to Jesus to heal him How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Canyou answer that one?'
The student remains silent.
-'No, you can't, can you?' the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.
-'Let's start again, young fella Is God good?'
-'Er...yes,' the student says.
-'Is Satan good?'
The student doesn't hesitate on this one.
-'No.'
-'Then where does Satan come from?'
-The student : 'From...God...'
-'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?'
-'Yes, sir.'
-'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'
-'Yes.'
-'So who created evil?' The professor continued, 'If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil.'
Without allowing the student to answer, the professor continues: 'Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?'
-The student: 'Yes.'
-'So who created them?'
The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. 'Who created them?
There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized.
-'Tell me,' he continues onto another student.
-'Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?'
-The student's voice is confident: 'Yes, professor, I do.'
The old man stops pacing. 'Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'
-'No sir. I've never seen Him'
-'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'
-'No, sir, I have not.'
-'Have you ever actually felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?'
-'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'
-'Yet you still believe in him?'
-'Yes.'
-'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that,son?'
-'Nothing,' the student replies. 'I only have my faith.'
-'Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.'
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his own.
-'Professor, is there such thing as heat?'
-'Yes,' the professor replies. 'There's heat.'
-'And is there such a thing as cold?'
-'Yes, son, there's cold too.'
-'No sir, there isn't.'
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.
-'You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.'
Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.
-'What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?'
-'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation. 'What is night if it isn't darkness?'
-'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?'
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester.
-'So what point are you making, young man?'
-'Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'
The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. 'Flawed? Can you explain how?'
-'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains. 'You argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, muchless fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.' 'Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?'
-'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, youngman, yes, of course I do'
-'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
-'Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?'
The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided.
-'To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean.'
The student looks around the room.
-'Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?'
The class breaks out into laughter.
-'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelled the professor's brain?
Noone appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir. So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?'
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable. Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers.
-'I guess you'll have to take them on faith.'
-'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,' the student continues. 'Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?'
Now uncertain, the professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.'
To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.'
The professor sat down.

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Napoleon Bonaparte's Quotes:

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.

I know when it is necessary, how to leave the skin of lionto take one of fox.

Kindness Quotes:

Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness willbe a friend better than any possession.

Ralph Sockman

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentleas true strength.

Dawna Markova

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts ofkindness-both the ones you have received and the onesyou have given-you can no longer believe that what youdo does not matter.

Kahlil Gibran

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness anddespair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Anonymous

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness;it usually comes back to you.

Confucius

To be able to practice five things everywhere underheaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity ofsoul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that Iam old, I admire kind people.

Faith Quotes:

Japanese proverb

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

William Durant

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget abouteverything except what you're going to do now - and doit.

Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of themain sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginningof wisdom.

Unknown Author

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

Blaise Pascal

In faith there is enough light for those who want tobelieve and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Michael Korda

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Wally Amos

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or howmany people have tried it before; it's important to realizethat whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

John Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds arenaturally affirmative.

Everett D. Martin

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Unknown author

It is not important what you believe, only that youbelieve.

Helen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothingcan be done without hope or confidence.

Leo Buscaglia

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What wemake of our talents is our gift back to God.

John Ruskin

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer,builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer andcritic.

Norman Vincent Peale

People become really quite remarkable when they startthinking that they can do things. When they believe inthemselves they have the first secret of success.

Lewis Cass

People may doubt what you say, but they will believewhat you do.

Napoleon Hill

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it canachieve.

Anthony Robbins

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible orimpossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It ismore likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Theodore Roethke

What we need are more people who specialize in theimpossible.

Bertrand Russell

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish tofind out.

John Ruskin

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of littleconsequence. The only thing of consequence is what wedo.

Brian Tracy

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

H. K. Barclay

When walking through the "valley of shadows,"remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Walt Disney

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way,implicitly and unquestionably.

Maxwell Maltz

When you believe you can - you can!Unknown

Author

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Denis Waitley

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believeyou won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignitionswitch that gets you off the launching pad.

Ronnie Lott

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Anthony Robbins

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty thatpowerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself toaccomplish virtually anything, including those thingsthat other people are certain are impossible.

Alfred A. Montapert

If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stablelife. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and theyare the foundation to build your life upon.

William Hazlett

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessaryto victory.

Friedrich Schlegel

In actual life every great enterprise begins with andtakes its first forward step in faith.

Thomas Fuller

He does not believe who does not live according to hisbelief.

Confucius

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

George Eliot

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude thebarrier of systems.

Rudyard Kipling

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

H. L. Mencken

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. Ibelieve it is better to be free than to be a slave. And Ibelieve it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Jon Erickson

I found that I could find the energy... that I could find thedetermination to keep on going. I learned that your mindcan amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, Ican do it... I can do it... I can do it!

Anne Frank

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I justwish that He didn't trust me so much.

The Bible, Matthew 17:20

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as amustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move fromhere to there" and it will move.

Gerry Spence

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than oneclosed by belief.

Author unknown

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot offaith will bring heaven to your soul.

Marcus T. Cicero

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Unknown Author

Achieving starts with believing.

Oprah Winfrey

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to dowhatever you choose, if you first get to know who you areand are willing to work with a power that is greater thanourselves to do it.

William Salter

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on apossibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that thepossibility exists.

Caracter Quotes:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms ourtrue honor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Karl G. Maeser

A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.

Heraclitus

A man’s character is his fate.

James Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing howto do it, and virtue is doing it.

Zig Ziglar

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guiltremoved you are free to be and do your best.

Determination Quotes:

Johann von Goethe

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is notenough, we must do.

Peter Marshall

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Samuel Smiles

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not findthem, they will make them.

Unknown Author

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.

Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have beenaccomplished by people who have kept on trying whenthere seemed to be no hope at all.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you want to get somewhere you have to know whereyou want to go and how to get there. Then never, never,never give up.

Samuel Johnson

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you todespair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.Great works are performed not by strength, butperseverance.

Franklin D Roosevelt

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,admit it frankly and try another. But above all, trysomething.

John J. Watson

It was courage, faith, endurance and a doggeddetermination to surmount all obstacles that built thisbridge.

William Somerset Maugham

It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to acceptanything but the best, you very often get it.

Leon Battista Alberti

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

American Proverb

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands inyour pockets.

Vincent T. Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others isnot a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rathera lack of will.

Italian Proverb

To him who is determined it remains only to act.

Kent Steffes

To succeed at the level I want to... you have to be focusedand serious.

Tommy Lasorda

The difference between the impossible and the possiblelies in a person's determination.

Colin Powell

The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you arewilling to do your best.

Roger Bannister

The man who can drive himself further once the effortgets painful is the man who will win.

Richard Devos

The only thing that stands between a man and what hewants from life is often merely the will to try it and faithto believe it is possible.

Unknown Author

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder orcontrol the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Zig Ziglar

Will you look back on life and say, "I wish I had," or "I'm glad I did"?

Zig Ziglar

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in theability to start over.

Jesse Owens

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams intoreality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication,self-discipline, and effort.

Hannibal

We will either find a way, or make one.

Alexander Graham Bell

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that itexists...and it becomes available only when you are inthat state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Peter F. Drucker

What you have to do and the way you have to do it isincredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Greg Hickman

Whenever you get knocked down in the game of life,immediately get up, get better and get going again.

Niccoló Machiavelli

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

English Proverb

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Harvey Mackay

People begin to become successful the minute they decideto be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they're prepared to see.

Mike Ditka

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing topay the price, you can get it done.

Brian Tracy

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as youpersist, you will be successful.

Winston Churchill

Never, never, never, never give up.

Mario Andretti

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determinationand commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to beachieved.

Denis Waitley

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spiteof the roadblocks that lay before you.

Unknown Author

Don't get discouraged; it's usually the last key in thebunch that opens the lock.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning thesecond half.

Napoleon Hill

Every person who wins in any undertaking must bewilling to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so canone be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as aburning desire to win - essential to success.

Gandhi

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has itsstages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggleand a victory.

-To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. "Confucius"
-Stability (determination) is like a sharp knife, it cuts straight and perfect at once. Instability is like a dull knife it tears and pulls to pieces. "Jan McKeithen"
-To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "Bertrand Russell"
-Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. "Boethius"
-When anger rises, think of the consequences. "Confucius"
-Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "David Starr Jordan"
-Who so loves believes the impossible. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning"
-Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
-Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. "Henry Van Dyke"
-By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. "Confucius"
-To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "Akhenaton"
-He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "James Huneker"
-Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. "Carl Sandburg"

-Eyes speaks louder than words!

-We have two ears to listen a lot and one tongue to talk a little! "Diogenes"

-The whole member of a human gets tired one day, except the tongue!
-You get fake friends by telling a lie, you get real enemies by telling the truth.

-Its humanbeings structure to think clever, to act stupid! "Anatole France"

-If you don't want anybody to lie to you, then don't ask a question! "B. Traven"

-Three things have been given to us as a gift to the difficulties of life: Hope, Sleep and Laugh! "Kant"

-Cat says filthy to the liver which it can not reach!

-A person who takes itself serious is stupid!

-A man he who is proud of his mind, is like a convict he who is proud of the wideness of his jail! "Simone Weil"

YNWA SONG

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

Written by Rogers and Hammerstein for the 1945 Broadway musical 'Carousel', Gerry Marsden and his Pacemakers performed the song in Liverpool clubs during the birth of Merseybeat. "The audience would just stop, stand and listen. It had this immediate effect," says Marsden. Released in October 1963, YNWA was the Pacemakers' third consecutive number one and nowhere was it more popular than on the Kop, as fans sang along with the PA before matches. When it fell from the top spot, Kopites continued to sing it and YNWA has been played and sung at Anfield ever since.

When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone

30/07/2009

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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