Jason Mccool > Jason's Quotes

“is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― St. Augustine

“Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Christian Classics: Six books by Charles Spurgeon in a single collection, with active table of contents

“God forbid that our positiveness should be presumption. Let us see that our evidences are right, lest we build upon an ungrounded hope; and then let us not be satisfied with the mere foundation, for it is from the upper rooms that we get the widest prospect. A living Redeemer, truly mine, is joy unspeakable.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Christian Classics: Six books by Charles Spurgeon in a single collection, with active table of contents

“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
― Beverly Cleary

“The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.”
― Peter Kreeft