Christopher's Ten for 10: Top Ten Favorite Quotes

Truthfully, this isn't really my top ten favorite quotes, its just ten of the many quotes that I happen to like and that I also find inspirational in one way or another.

10. The price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill

9. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill  (Tru dat).

8. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.  - Abe Lincoln

7. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. - Abe Lincoln  (Preaching to the choir Abe, preaching to the choir.)

6. Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. - Theodore Roosevelt  (It's a shame not many believe this now-a-days :( 

5. The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.  - Theodore Roosevelt

4.  Clark Kent at 13: Can't I just keep pretending I'm your son?
Jonathan Kent: You are my son. But somewhere out there you have another father too, who gave you another name. And he sent you here for a reason, Clark. And even if it takes you the rest of your life you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is. (Makes me think of our relationship with God, how we're always learning more about him and about ourselves throughout our lives).

3. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's going to change the world. - Jonathan Kent (Doesn't just apply to Superman, ask Hitler or Churchill)

2. C.S. Lewis- Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.  (Ain't nobody got time for lukewarmness). 

1. We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.- C.S. Lewis  (Let us all strive to be more progressive in the areas where we're wrong)

Well, thus ends post number 46, as we rapidly approach the big 5-0.  If you have a favorite quote that you find especially impactful share it the comments, so we all may be impacted together.  The next issue of Christopher's Ten for 10, my top ten favorite books, will come out tomorrow.  Before Y'all leave, here's one last bonus quote, courtesy my benevolent generosity.


I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. -  C.S. Lewis