{"id":511,"date":"2012-03-31T01:28:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T05:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/?page_id=511"},"modified":"2013-07-25T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T03:22:14","slug":"favorite-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/favorite-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time – waking and sleeping. It does not change God – it changes me.”<\/em>
\n\u2013C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Taking your dog for a walk is usually better than whatever alternative use of your time you were considering.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Seth Godin<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Wherever you are, be all there.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Blaise Pascal<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Albert Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Jim Elliott<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”<\/em>
\n\u2013C. S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Don’t rush me, sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Miracle Max, ‘The Princess Bride’<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When the only tool you own is a hammer,\u00a0every problem begins to look like a nail.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Abraham Maslow<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Do, or do not. There is no try.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Yoda<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”<\/em>
\n\u2013C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Being still and doing nothing are two very different things.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Mr. Han in The Karate Kid<\/em> (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”<\/em>
\n\u2013Corrie Ten Boom<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time – waking and sleeping. It does not change God – it changes me.” \u2013C.S. Lewis “Taking your dog for a walk is usually better than whatever alternative use of your time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}