Quotes of the Week - Nov 10, 2009:
"I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." --
Bernie Madoff, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in newly released
interview with representatives of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train
set as a kid." --Warren Buffett, investor, on his company's $26
billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - its biggest
deal ever.
"I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears."
-- Rihanna, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention
she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown
in February.
Authors:
Bible - St. Luke Gospel Quotes, St. Luke's Gospel Quotations
He
would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine
did eat: and no man gave unto him.
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants
of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish
with hunger! St. Luke, 15. 16
I
will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father,
I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of
thy hired servants. St. Luke, 15. 18
Bring
hither the fatted calf, and kill it. St. Luke, 15. 23
This
my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. St. Luke, 15. 24
And
the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely:
for the children of this world are in their generation wiser
than the children of light. St. Luke, 16. 8
Make
to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that,
when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. St. Luke, 16. 9
He
that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in
much. St. Luke, 16. 10
There
was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine
linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid
at his gate, full of sores,
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
man's table: moreover the dogs licked his sores.
And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by
the angels into Abraham's bosom. St. Luke, 16. 19
Between
us and you there is a great gulf fixed. St. Luke, 16. 26
The
kingdom of God is within you. St. Luke, 16. 21