Quotes

[Nerd]

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

I like it.

It was kind of sobering in that it could work either way.

I found a free-verse poem by her that I really liked in a very old book at my house. When I just tried to find it online, I couldn't.
I'll have to go home and poke through that book again.


I watched the movie "Hamlet" last night, with Mel Gibson and Glenn Close. I thought it was well done.

[SippinTea]

*waits to read the poem*

*adds Hamlet to her mental list of movies to check out*

[nicolejoy]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!

Wait, Ant's in Denmark!! uh oh...

[Nerd]

Could be coincidence... 

[Raecheal]

haha. That's funny Nic.

[Nerd]

This is the part that was in the book.

:So faith is strong
Only when we are strong, shrinks when we shrink.
It comes when music stirs us, and the chords,
Moving on some grand climax, shake our souls
With influx new that makes new energies.
It comes in swellings of the heart and tears
That rise at noble and at gentle deeds-
At labors of the master-artist's hand
Which, trembling, touches to a finer end,
Trembling before an image seen within.
It comes in moments of heroic love,
Unjealous joy in joy not made for us;
In conscious triumph of the good within,
Making us worship goodness that rebukes.
Even our failures are a prophecy,
Even our yearnings and our bitter tears
After that fair and true we cannot grasp;
As patriots who seem to die in vain
Make liberty more sacred by their pangs
Presentiment of better things on earth
Sweeps in with every force that stirs our souls
To admiration, self-renouncing love.
Or thoughts, like light, that bind the world in one:


Interestingly, I just discovered google has a lot of classics that are public domain. You can download them in .PDF format. Book here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=SXQeAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=%22so+faith+is+strong+only%22&source=web&ots=4p0QK1-i5g&sig=1ftY9ayaAyJmAz5RTVpcJZvtyVU

[SippinTea]

Thought-provoking, that.

Thanks for posting it! *smile*

[Nerd]

You're welcome.

[SippinTea]

                                "A single wildflower, given with love
                                               is better than
                         a dozen perfect roses given with indifference."
                                           

[apsurf]

I understand the meaning of time
it is the bonds of friendship
that gives it it's true meaning.
-transformers show-

[apsurf]

one death
gateway from curse to curse.
2 deaths,
gates from curse, to blessing, to glory everlasting.

__________

HE Changed death
from the curse,
to a gateway to life.

[SippinTea]

"Any place we have to hide is not safe. In Christ, we find the freedom to be safely exposed."  --Beth Moore

[newkris]

"We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the-glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. I feel better now, having said this, although only those who have experienced it will understand it."

--John Steinbeck

[kkay]

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

-Rabbi Julius Gordon

[MsJennJenn]

this is my sig line for work

"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up into a single day." Robert Casper Lintner

[kkay]

I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

-Galileo Galilei

[MelodyB]

"Messin' with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley" -Ollie Chandler, Deception- Randy Alcorn.

"The problem with morning is, it comes before my first cup of coffee" -Ollie Chandler, Deception- Randy Alcorn.

[newkris]

"anna do it."  - mavrik when asked who did  _________ (fill in the blank)   :grin:

[newkris]

"when closes a door, it's okay to put a 'do not disturb sign on it.'"  - terp   

[SippinTea]

Oooo, I like it! 

Terp, you rock!

*wanders off pondering all the ways that can be applied in her life at this very moment*

[titushome]

"when _____ closes a door, it's okay to put a 'do not disturb sign on it.'"  - terp   

God?

[SippinTea]

That's what word I mentally inserted, since it was Terp that said it.

*waits for Kris or Terp to respond*

[MelodyB]

I figured that whats she meant too, so I read it like that as well.

[newkris]

oops.  i saw that and went back to fix it and . . .  it wouldn't let me post.  *dreaded 40 minute or whateveritis rule!*

"when GOD closes a door, it's okay to put a 'do not disturb sign on it.'" - terp
part of a very lovely conversation over a cuppa Christmas Blend Starbucks coffee, no less. 

[Gods*Girl]

With God in your world, you aren't an accident or an incident; you are a gift to the world, a divine work of art, signed by God - Max Lucado