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So, my name is Brett Alan Vance.
Once on a plane in Thailand my ticket had my middle and first name ran together. Brettalan. Thus Brettalon was born.
I hate my long hair, but I am growing it out for locks of love.
I go to Dallas Christian College where I am majoring in Biblical Studies with a minor in Biblical Languages.
I've been told I come off as arrogant, I'm working on it.
I do things on a whim, not much planning. i.e. piercing my septum, getting a tattoo on my thigh.
I enjoy short succinct sentences.
I also talk a lot. A lot. A psychiatrist once told me I suffered from diarrhea of the mouth.
I enjoy dressing nice.
But I don't do it often.
I love science, and math. Yes I am a nerd.
I want to get struck by lightning one day.
I enjoy rock climbing, I wish I could do it more often.
I go through cycles of wearing predominantly pants, or predominantly shorts. I don't like to mix the two together. Do not ask me why. I won't be able to answer.
Aside from the shorts/pants question, I love questions, answering or asking, they're my favorite.
Smiling is also my favorite.
I dislike gum, I have a horrible habit of chewing it whenever I can never find an appropriate place to dispose of it. So I walk around with an aching jaw for hours on end.
If I could, I would be study the rest of my life.
I have a secret passion for smoothies. But they are oh so expensive and I am too lazy to make my own.
I love gummie bears.
I love driving around with no where to go.
I've learned a lot about myself this last year, (so cliché) but they are things I plan on changing.
I can fix other people's problems. But never my own.
I give great advice, I often provide a horrible example.
I have never solved a Rubik's cube, and I really have no desire to.
I hate I.Q. tests... ask me why.
I love to debate. I hate to lose.
I can talk to almost anyone anywhere about anything.
I love working with kids, and middleschoolers and teenagers.
I love deep talks, especially about theology.
I love repetive verbs at the beginning of short succinct sentences.
I enjoy spelling.
I always try and stay in touch.
I want to be clever, witty and wise. Something of a Dumbledore figure, or the professor from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. This is my dream.
I need to take a shower right now.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
-Heywood Broun
It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
-Mohandas Gandhi
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
-C.S. Lewis-
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
-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.
-C. S. Lewis-
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
-C. S. Lewis-
It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!
-Dr. Ravi Zacharias-
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
-C. S. Lewis-
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
-C. S. Lewis-I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
-C. S. Lewis-
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
-C. S. Lewis-
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
-C. S. Lewis-
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
-C. S. Lewis-
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
-C. S. Lewis-
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-
All things proclaim the existence of God.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded great empires. But upon what did the creation of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded his empire upon love, and to this very day millions would die for him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-
Across the chasm of eighteen hundred years Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy. He asks that for which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; he will have it entirely to himself; he demands it unconditionally, and forthwith his demand is granted. Wonderful!
-Napoleon Bonaparte-
From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-
If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-
The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Fairy tales are merely fantastic; Jesus Christ is fantastically true."
-Dr. Ravi Zacharias-
My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.
-Ignatius-
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
-Laurence J. Peter-
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
-Albert Einstein-
"I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'"
-Johannes Kepler-
"I am a Christian...I believe... only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ...In Him is all refuge, all solace."
-Johannes Kepler-
"Let my name perish if only the name of God the Father is thereby elevated."
-Johannes Kepler-
"Jesus Christ, I have separated myself from Him:
I have fled from Him, denied Him, crucified Him.
Let me never be separated from Him.
We keep hold of Him only by the ways taught in the Gospel.
Renunciation, total and sweet.
Total submission to Jesus Christ..."
-Blaise Pascal-
"Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness engenders pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God engenders despair."
-Blaise Pascal-
" This thing [a scale model of our solar system] is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you, as an atheist, profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?"
-Sir Isaac Newton-
"Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity."
-Samuel Morse-
"A Christian finds his guide in the Word of God, and commits the keeping of his soul into the hands of God. He looks for no assurance beyond what the Word can give him, and if his mind is troubled by the cares and fears which assail him, he can go nowhere but in prayer to the throne of
grace and to Scripture."
-Michael Faraday---
Inventor of the electric generator and the transformer. Discovered Benzene--used to make plastics, nylon and dyes. Produced the first test tubes.
Described Field Theory. Hailed by Albert Einstein as the foundation for his own scientific discoveries.
"Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. 'I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.'"
-Michael Faraday-
"The Bible, and it alone, with nothing added to it nor taken away from it by man, is the sole and sufficient guide for each individual, at all times and in all circumstancesFor faith in the divinity and work of Christ is the gift of God, and the evidence of this faith is obedience to the commandment of Christ."
-Michael Faraday-
"It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than
an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed."
-James Prescott Joule-
"No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change."
-James Clerk Maxwell-"Almighty God, Who has created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee,
and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service; so to receive Thy blessed Word, that we may believe on Him Who Thou has sent, to give us the knowledge of salvation and the remission of our sins. All of which we ask in the name of the same Jesus Christ, our Lord."
-James Clerk Maxwell-
"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator."
-Louis Pasteur-
"Science brings men nearer to God."
-Louis Pasteur-
"Without Him, I understand nothing; without Him, all is darknessEvery period has its manias. I regard Atheism as a mania. It is the malady of the age.
You could take my skin from me more easily than my faith in God."
-Jean-Henri Fabre-
"Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so non-sensical that I cannot put it into words."
-Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)-
"Scientific concepts exist only in the minds of men.
Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God."
-Wernher Von Braun---First director of NASA.
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