'Heard: The Week in Quotes (vol 2)

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

-- Douglas Adams

I know I talk about relationships a lot, but I don’t want you to get the impression that I’m hopelessly obsessed with finding a girlfriend, even though I am. Don’t draw that impression from what I’m about to say, but it’s true.

-- Me, 1/5/2006 on the old blog

This president has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. These aren't Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own. Don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war.

-- Rep David Wu (D-OR) (the bolded emphasis, however, was all mine)

The true Christian confession is that Jesus is the Christ. Rightly understood, however, it means nothing else than this: that through the man Jesus we are first lifted into a true fellowship with Got. If it be asked what we are to understand by that, the reply is that for those who truly seek God it should be wonderfully simple. But it is often made difficult by those thieves amid Christendom (John 10. 1), who pretend to come into fellowship with God by some other way than through the man Jesus. The by-path most frequented is that of doctrines concerning Jesus which give him the highest praise, and so form the most convenient means of avoiding his Person. ... The result is that even among us Protestants it has become very difficult for the majority to regard the finding of God as the highest good, or even to look upon it as a wonderful gift from him at all. Most men think it of small importance that Jesus alone makes us certain of a living God, for they imagine that of all the doctrines in which they "believe" the doctrine of the existence of God is the most elementary.

-- Wilhelm Herrmann