Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors: Bible - St. Matthew Gospel Quotes, St. Matthew's Gospel Quotations
Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor
like thyself. St Matthew, 22. 38
Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe
of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier
matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought
ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. St Matthew, 23. 23
Ye
blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. St Matthew, 23. 24
Ye
are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all
uncleanness. St Matthew, 23. 27
O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest
them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered
thy chickens together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not! St Matthew, 23. 37
Ye
shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled:
for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet. St Matthew, 24. 6
For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. St Matthew, 24. 7
When
ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken
of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place. St Matthew, 24.15
Wheresoever
the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. St Matthew, 24. 28
Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. St Matthew, 24. 35