Quotes

[SippinTea]

In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.          –CS Lewis

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
--CS Lewis

A Friend will, to be sure, prove himself to be also an ally when alliance becomes necessary; will lend or give when we are in need, nurse us in sickness, stand up for us among our enemies, do what he can for our widows and orphans. But such good offices are not the stuff of Friendship. The occasions for them are almost interruptions. They are in one way relevant to it, in another not. Relevant, because you would be a false friend if you would not do them when the need arose; irrelevant, because the role of benefactor always remains accidental, even a little alien, to that of Friend. The stereotyped "Don't mention it" here expresses what we really feel. The mark of perfect Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.          –CS Lewis

[MelodyB]

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, “What? You too? I thought I was the only one.”
--CS Lewis

That is SOOOOOO true!

[SippinTea]

"Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you?"
--Walt Whitman

[SippinTea]

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."  --Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

"To love a person means to see him as God intended him to be."  --Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."  --Paul Boese

[SippinTea]

"A smart traveler doesn't curse the guardrails." --R. Alcorn



(Eek! I seem to be keeping this thread alive single-handedly. Someone help me out or I'm going to get a complex!)

[MelodyB]

Im trying to think of somthing, but I cant...sorry!

When I do, Ill let you know.

[titushome]

"Cats... teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

- Garrison Keillor

[Nerd]

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost


"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi


"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."

- William Shakespeare


"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

- Hosea Ballou


"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

[SippinTea]

Wow. Good stuff there, and lots to think about.

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

That was a nice reminder for this week

"Cats... teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

- Garrison Keillor

Only too true.  (But don't tell Sam'l or 'Stelly I said that...they might get upset with me.)  :grin:

[Nerd]

 

[SippinTea]

Ever notice how some people use 'mercy' and 'grace' interchangeably? When really they're not synonyms? I thought this was a pretty decent comparison of the two...

Mercy is God withholding the punishment we rightfully deserve. Grace is God not only withholding that punishment but offering the most precious of gifts instead.

Mercy withholds the knife from the heart of Isaac.
Grace provides a ran in the thicket.

Mercy runs to forgive the Prodigal Son.
Grace throws a party with every extravagance.

Mercy hears the cry of the thief on the cross.
Grace promises paradise that very day.

Taken from the book Captured by Grace by David Jeremiah

[SippinTea]

"Grace is the delivery of a jewel that nobody ordered, a burst of light in a room where everyone forgot it was dark."  (Taken from the book Captured by Grace by David Jeremiah)

[Nerd]

That's a good one...

And unlike the delivery of a pizza that nobody ordered, you don't have to check the shrubbery to figure out who's behind it.  :grin:


"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
- Leonard Cohen

"The better part of valour is discretion..."
- Shakespeare

[SippinTea]

That's a good one...

And unlike the delivery of a pizza that nobody ordered, you don't have to check the shrubbery to figure out who's behind it.  :grin:

*chuckle* Exactly! 

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
- Leonard Cohen

Hmmm....If poetry is the ash, what is ramb.... naaah, never mind. I don't even want to know. LOL

[MelodyB]

Hmmm....If poetry is the ash, what is ramb.... naaah, never mind. I don't even want to know. LOL

Yeah you better not ask THAT....you ramble just a tad to much to want to know that!

[titushome]

Mercy is God withholding the punishment we rightfully deserve. Grace is God not only withholding that punishment but offering the most precious of gifts instead.

Mercy withholds the knife from the heart of Isaac.
Grace provides a ran in the thicket.

Mercy runs to forgive the Prodigal Son.
Grace throws a party with every extravagance.

Mercy hears the cry of the thief on the cross.
Grace promises paradise that very day.

Mercy is God's forgiveness of my sexual sin.
Grace is His gift of my wife, and the union He has made between us.

(Of course, that isn't to imply that marriage is all about sex - only that sexual sin is a pale pervesion of the husband/wife union God intends.)

[SippinTea]

 

(Have I mentioned lately that I'm really glad you're my brother-in-law? *smile*)

[titushome]

(Thanks.   )

[Nerd]

"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."
- Wernher Von Braun

"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott

"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw

[SippinTea]

 

....especially for the 2nd and 4th quotes.

[SippinTea]

"In prayer we are occupied with our needs, in thanksgiving we are occupied with our blessings, but in worship we are totally occupied with God Himself."  --A.P. Gibbs

[MelodyB]

OOOoooooo

I like that one.

[Nerd]

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)


I didn't expect to think so much about that one.

[SippinTea]

  That quote is on my all-time-favs list.

Interesting that the very person who wrote it had to pose as a man, just to get published. I guess that means she found the way to be who she wanted to be.... with or without the approval of her peers.

Hmmm.....

[nicolejoy]

"...be not afraid of greatness: some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon 'em."

William Shakespeare - from Twelfth Night

I LOVE Shakespeare quotes... Here are some more of my favs:

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages." - from As you like it

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - from As you like it

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." - from Hamlet (I love that WHOLE quote, it's a father's advice to his son - but it's really long!! If you like, you can look it up though...)

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." - from Macbeth (that quote reminds me of how the bible says that our life is "even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." (James 4:14). Sometimes Shakespeare makes me wonder if he got some of his ideas from the bible...)

And my favourite sonnet - it's Sonnet 116:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


I love how that sonnet talks about love, and if it "fails" with time or trials and situations, it's not really love...