Founded by Geniuses… Run by idiots… by Jeff Foxworthy

A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots - by Jeff Foxworthy:

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently sought, but couldn’t be found — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

What a country! How about we give God a reason to continue blessing America !

Drop it!

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go." — Brooks Atkinson

God Can Do Something...

"If they can make penicillin out of molded cheese... Maybe God can do something with you and me." anonymous 

Nothing by Surprise

"Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways." — W. T. Purkiser

All I Know...

"All I know is that I am a product of God and all I can do is the best I can to thank Him and honor Him and try to grow in Him, step by step." — Bob Smith

Hatch or Rot

"You cannot go on being a good egg forever. You must either hatch or rot." — C. S. Lewis

Step Out

"There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him." — F. B. Meyer

Calm the Storm

"Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul." — Lloyd John Ogilvie

Rules

"God has given us rules not because He is arbitrary, but because the rules... are fixed in His own character.... Thus, when we sin we break the law of God... in the direction of destroying what we really are." — Francis Schaeffer

Gratitude

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." — Cicero

Peace

"Peace is to be found in the acceptance of things we are unable to change." — Author Unknown

Patience Honor Wisdom

"Lord please give me the patience to listen, the courage to speak, the honor to follow, and the wisdom to lead." — Author Unknown

Full Hands

"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them." — St. Augustine of Hippo

Obedience

"Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility." — John Climacus

Perspective

"Any concern too small to be a prayer is too small to be a burden." — Corrie ten Boom

Wisdom

"Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions." 

Light & Dark

"The issue now is clear. It is between light and darkness and everyon must choose his side." — G. K. Chesterton

Extraordinary Life

"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself." Jacque – Yves Cousteau

Use of Life

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." — William James

Better to...

"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." — Erwin W. Lutzer

Input & Output

"Your input will determine your output, so guard what you put in and you won't be put out." — Peter Sinclair

God draws near

"God still draws near to us in the ordinary, commonplace, everyday experiences and places... He comes in surprising ways." — Henry Gariepy

Let Go

"We must let go of the life we planned in order to accept the life that is waiting for us." 

Anxiety & Faith

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety." — George Müller

Wise Men

"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be." — Author Unknown

Principles

"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith." — Abraham Kuyper

"The measure of a man"

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"So what to do?"

"So what to do? Two Things, it seems to me. At least two. Use up each day. Fill it overflowing with good. Deliberately enjoy it. Two, begin now. Mend a fractured friendship, mail an overdue letter, repair a broken heart, lay aside a griveance, act on a noble impulse. As we all know, "The night cometh"." — Lanny Henninger

People Thinking

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James

Will Power

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer

Negotiating

“Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game.”  Vladimir Putin

Negotiating

“Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game.”  Vladimir Putin

A Friend

"Insomuch as anyone pushes you nearer to God, they are your truest friend." — Author Unknown

Moral Bearings

"We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position." — A. W. Tozer

Be Better

"A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else." — Max Lucado

Never too late

"It's never too late to start doing what is right." — Charles Swindoll

New Beginning

"Though no one can go back and make a new beginning - anyone can start from now and make a brand new end." — Carl Brand

Enough

"When you have nothing left but God, then for the first time you become aware that God is enough." — Maude Royden

Truth

All truth goes through three stages - at first it is ridiculed - next it is violently opposed - and then it is accepted as being self evident.

Purpose

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." — William Shedd

When Insults Had Class!

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."--
Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary." -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -- Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -- Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend... If you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill...

followed by Churchill's response:

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one." -- Winston Churchill

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop

Faith

"Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation." — Andrew Murray

Character

"Character is what you are in the dark." — Dwight L. Moody

Measure of Life

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation." — Corrie ten Boom

Solitude

"Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today." — A. W. Tozer

Clinging

"If we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God." — Daniel Ortega

Pure Joy

Truth

"Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think." 

— Longfellow

"He who has God and Everything has nothing more than he who has God alone." 

— C. S. Lewis

"There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by."

— George Meredith

"We cannot all do great things but we can do small things with great love." 

— Mother Theresa

My job... is to believe and not doubt... HIS JOB... EVERYTHING ELSE...

- Katie Davis

"Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world." 

— T. R. Milford

"I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans." 

— George MacDonald

If we would talk less and pray more, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

"Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway." 

— Carlton Pearson

The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb - what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that."

— Jim Cymbala

"Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love!"

— Pete Welsh

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple... but only God can count the apples in a seed."

"God is good, he cares, forgives, loves us at all times. Surely we must always thank him for what he does."

— Nancy Irene

"You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrows of your life."

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."

— Jim Elliot

"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."

— William Barclay

"There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation, create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today." — Handley C. G. Moule

"We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today."

— A. W. Tosser

Quotes

"If the world were like me, what kind of a world would this world be?"

"I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans." 

— George MacDonald

The phrase "God is good" cannot be reserved for those moments when life turns out the way we had hoped.

"Beware of cut-and-dried theologies that reduce the ways of God to a manageable formula that keeps life safe.

God often does the unexplainable just to keep us on our toes -- and also on our knees." 

— Warren Wiersbe

"We have a God who delights in impossibilities." 

— Andrew Murray

"Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow." 

— Swedish Proverb

"Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts." 

— F. F. Bosworth

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life. Proverbs 22:4

"In the sorest trials God often makes the sweetest discoveries of Himself."

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society.” 

–Aristotle

"When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence." — Matthew Henry

"It is no small thing to be on terms of friendship with God."

"Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders." 

— F. W.Faber

"Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think." 

— Longfellow

"He who has God and Everything has nothing more than he who has God alone." 

— C. S. Lewis

"There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by."

— George Meredith

"We cannot all do great things but we can do small things with great love." 

— Mother Theresa

My job... is to believe and not doubt... HIS JOB... EVERYTHING ELSE 

-  Katie Davis

"Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world." 

— T. R. Milford

"I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans." 

— George MacDonald

If we would talk less and pray more, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

"Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway." 

— Carlton Pearson

The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb-- what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that." 

— Jim Cymbala

"Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love!"

— Pete Welsh

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple... but only God can count the apples in a seed."

"God is good, he cares, forgives, loves us at all times. Surely we must always thank him for what he does."

— Nancy Irene

"You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrows of your life."

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."

— Jim Elliot

"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."

— William Barclay

"There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation, create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today." 

— Handley C. G. Moule

"We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today."

— A. W. Tozer