Quotes

[newkris]

Not sure if there's a quote thread anywhere anymore.  Can't seem to find it, though I honestly haven't looked very hard.  So . . . mods .  . if this ought to be elsewhere, feel free to move it.


in any event ... got any good quotes to share?

[newkris]

of course, i started the thread because i have a quote to share.  i found it in a journal from 2002 - a very interesting year, to say the least.  and this quote is highlighted.  speaks more to me now than it did then.



I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after,
and changed my ideas;
they've gone through and through me,
like wine through water,
and altered the colour of my mind. 

Emily Bronte

[SippinTea]

Nice one, Kris! 

Here's one of my all-time favorites: Wherever I am is a good place to start.

(Helps me combat all my perfectionistic tendencies.) 

[SippinTea]

Faith, when walking through the dark with God, only asks Him to hold His hand more tightly.     --Phillip Brooks

Trials are not enemies of faith but are opportunities to prove God's faithfulness.     --Unknown

Suffering does not last, but having suffered lasts forever.     --Leon Bloy

[melissa15]

oo' i was reading my journal the other day and i found these,  i am not exactually sure where i got them from. I do beleive some preaching tapes i was listening to

Nothing can Bring you peace but yourself! 
           
                   AND

Fauliurs arent finial if you have faith

[newkris]

Life is to be lived.  If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.  And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself. - Katherine Hepburn

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. - Marguerite De Valois (1553-1615), French princess and scholar.

Don't compromise yourself.  You're all you've got.  - Janis Joplin

[Nerd]

"Revelation"

We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone really find us out.

'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.

-Robert Frost

[nytxn]

I am beginning to understand that faith is not the way around pain, it is the way through pain. Faith doesn't get rid of the opposition, it invites it over for dinner. Faith doesn't give you the winning point at the last second, it ties the game and sends you into overtime. Faith doesn't give you the solution, it forces you to find it.

- Mike Yaconelli

[myhaloisintheshop]

"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backwards" –Abraham Lincoln

[randerzforya]

"Courage isn't about having no fear, it's about perservering in spite of it." --Unkown

[newkris]

Before Prayer

"I weave a silence on
  to my lips . .  my mind . . my heart.
Calm me, O Lord,
  as you stilled the Storm.
Still me, O Lord,
  keep me from harm.
Let all the tumult within me cease.
  Enfold me, Lord
in your peace."

David Adam

[SippinTea]

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice before everyone has heard it once.
--Oswald J. Smith

[SippinTea]

A delay is not a denial from God.  --unknown

[newkris]

"Follow Your Heart"

"Hold hands firmly, hearts gently."

spoken as only a Dove Valentine Chocolate can speak. 

[SippinTea]

"Hold hands firmly, hearts gently."

spoken as only a Dove Valentine Chocolate can speak.  [/b]

I like that one, Kris! Nice thought.

[NessasMama]

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces -- the third I can't remember.
--Italo Svevo

[Nerd]

My fortune cookie the other day said,

"Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today."

[newkris]

i sincerely hope you took that seriously.     by all means, i would!

[Amelia Bedelia]

My fortune cookie the other day said,

"Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today."

note that it did not say anything about a kiss on the cheek, trunk, ear or anywhere else... so you can still kiss the elephant (and you know they need love and affection too!), just with limitations...
why they would limit you like that I don't understand though...  oh well, its only limited for one day at least

[Nerd]

Yeah, luckily.

I have to confess I wasn't overly worried about some love-crazed elephant sneaking up and planting one on me, considering I don't live in Africa.

Still, I guess it's a good thing they're so easy to spot, right?

[apsurf]

Coolguy, I don't think they would sneak up on you....they would just trample you!  LOL!


But the quote I wanted to add...

Jesus Christ was Both God and man, lion and lamb.
The art is to have both, and know when to be which.  TD Jakes

[SippinTea]

"Those who know the path to God can find it in the dark."    --Ian Maclaren

"Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am, or am not, and keep ever burning before my wandering steps the kindly loght of hope. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not in sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life and time's old memories that are good and sweet. And may the evening twilight find me gentle still."      --Author Unknown

[newkris]

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Count Leo Tolstoy, What is Art? Chap. viii. 

[SippinTea]

Plant a garden in the middle of your pain, a garden that will bless not only your life but also the lives of many others.  --Jackie Kendall

[newkris]

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.  Some blunders and absurdities no doubt drept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; being it well and serenly and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsnse.
This day is all that is good and fair.
It is too dear with it's hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

posted on the desk where i'm working today.  i like this.