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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?

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

Nice one, Kris!  :thumbsup2:

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

(Helps me combat all my perfectionistic tendencies.)  ;)

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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

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  

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"Follow Your Heart"

"Hold hands firmly, hearts gently."

spoken as only a Dove Valentine Chocolate can speak.   

Quote from: newkris on February 27, 2007, 02:29:20 AM
"Hold hands firmly, hearts gently."

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

I like that one, Kris! Nice thought.

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

My fortune cookie the other day said,

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

:-?

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

Quote from: coolguy on February 28, 2007, 05:01:25 AM
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

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? ;)

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

"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

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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. 

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

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

 :thumbsup2: Nice, Kris.

Here's another I like: "Obedience is always the mark of authentic surrender to God's authority."  --Beth Moore

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You can not become what you are meant to be,
until you have faced and let go of  what you were.      (paraphrased)  TD JAKES

"If you're driving down the road and miss the exit God told you to take, He'll always provide another one a little farther down.  The route might not be as scenic as if you had taken His way, but it will still get you to where He wants you to go."

- My wife and I (we came up with this observation once after missing an exit)

Thanks Titus. I kinda needed that one today.  :hi:

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very good, titus.  i like your AS quote, too, in your sign line.  interesting to consider where he was and what his lift was made up of when he was writing. 

Quote from: SippinTea on March 21, 2007, 04:53:04 PM
Thanks Titus. I kinda needed that one today.  :hi:

You're welcome.  :)

Quote from: newkris on March 21, 2007, 04:57:41 PM
very good, titus.  i like your AS quote, too, in your sign line.  interesting to consider where he was and what his [life] was made up of when he was writing. 

It sure is.

Quote from: titushome on March 21, 2007, 02:23:46 PM
"If you're driving down the road and miss the exit God told you to take, He'll always provide another one a little farther down.  The route might not be as scenic as if you had taken His way, but it will still get you to where He wants you to go."

I needed that... lately I've been feeling like the ultimate 'exit'-misser
bleh! I don't like taking the long way or detours to my future
and right now, I feel like I'm stuck in a traffic jam

lol

Ahha! I found another great quote....and it goes along with the one Brandon posted above. :)

"Looking back for the right reasons with the right attitude helps us become better equipped to look forward."  --Beth Moore

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
                                                                                                                    ~Emerson

"Life's way of reacting to a crushed heart is to wrap tough sinews of flesh around it and tempt us to promise that we'll never let ourselves get hurt again. That's not God's way. Remember, self-made fortresses not only keep love from going out; they keep love from coming in."  --Beth Moore

(Lots to think about on that one, eh?)

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This one could probably be attributed to some gaffing politician somewhere:

"If someone is going to stab me in the back, I'd rather they do it to my face."

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.  --Orville Wright  (Hmmm....wonder how that plays out on a ministry level...interesting thought.)

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.  --Helen Keller  (Only too true.)

Men spend their lives in anticipations,--in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other--it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.  --Charles Caleb Colton  (Wow! Now that's a thought worth thinking on!)

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.  --Henry David Thoreau  (One of my all-time favorites) :)

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  --Arnold H. Glasgow  (Love that thought.)

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These are some of my most favorite quotes!!!

"If you will it, it is no dream." -Theodore Hertzl

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

"It is never too late to be what we might have been."- George Eliot

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Philippians 4:6-7
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." - Erin Majors

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau

"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand." - Robert Vallett

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

2 Samuel 22:21-25 (The Message)


21-25 God made my life complete
      when I placed all the pieces before him.
    When I cleaned up my act,
      he gave me a fresh start.
    Indeed, I've kept alert to God's ways;
      I haven't taken God for granted.  
   Every day I review the ways he works,
      I try not to miss a trick.
    I feel put back together,
      and I'm watching my step.

    God rewrote the text of my life
      when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Especially for my bro...

"If you're gonna make waves, at least make 'em big enough to surf on." - Ken Lewis

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"Wisdom begins in wonder." -- Socrates

"One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." -- Bill Cosby

"Real love stories never have endings." -- Richard Bach

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." -- Henry Steele


"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams


"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Thomas Jefferson

Good stuff there, Coolguy!

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.   —Jonathan Edwards

And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come, should know that it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whreas your peace is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends.  —William Gurnall

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Thanks, ST.  ;)


"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --J. R. R. Tolkien

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." --C. S. Lewis

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." --C. S. Lewis

"Fit yourself for God's service; be faithful. He will presently appoint thee....In some unlikely quarter, in a shepherd's hut, or in an artisan's cottage, God has His prepared and appointed instrument. As yet the shaft is hidden in His quiver, in the shadow of his hand; but at the precise moment at which it will tell with the greatest effect, it will be produced and launched on the air."   --F. B. Meyer

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While we may speak of many things as commodities, truly we have just one: time.  And our use of time reveals what is in our hearts.

"Doubts about God need not lead to denial, defeat, bitterness, or escape. Instead they can lead to a 'truth search.' Asking questions related to our doubts will lead to a strengthened faith as we discover truth in the process."   --Carol Kent

During your time in the wilderness, remember this: you haven't lost your faith, you're simply finding your own faith. (adapted from one of Connie Cavanaugh's writings)

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Quote from: SippinTea on May 03, 2007, 05:50:49 PM
"Doubts about God need not lead to denial, defeat, bitterness, or escape. Instead they can lead to a 'truth search.' Asking questions related to our doubts will lead to a strengthened faith as we discover truth in the process."   --Carol Kent

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I like that one!

been thinking about the broad spectrum of life lately.  i think this fits:

Shakespeare -

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.
(As You Like It, act 2, scene 7)

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

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Quote from: SippinTea on June 23, 2007, 06:09:35 AM
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

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That is SOOOOOO true!

"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

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"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

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

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

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

When I do, Ill let you know.

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

- Garrison Keillor

"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

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

Quote from: coolguy on July 04, 2007, 03:36:25 AM
"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

:great: That was a nice reminder for this week

Quote from: titushome on July 03, 2007, 11:52:44 PM
"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:

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 :)

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...

QuoteMercy 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

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"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)

:beret:

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

Quote from: coolguy on July 09, 2007, 05:44:29 AM
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!  :thumbsup2:

Quote from: coolguy on July 09, 2007, 05:44:29 AM

"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

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Quote from: SippinTea on July 09, 2007, 06:35:27 AM

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

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

QuoteMercy 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.)

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

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(Thanks.   :oops:)

"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

 :great:

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

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"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

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OOOoooooo

I like that one.

"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.

 :great: 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.....

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"...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...

QuoteThat 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.

*waits to read the poem*

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

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!

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

Could be coincidence...  :)

haha. That's funny Nic.

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 (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)

Thought-provoking, that.

Thanks for posting it! *smile*

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You're welcome. :)

                                "A single wildflower, given with love
                                               is better than
                         a dozen perfect roses given with indifference."
                                           
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I understand the meaning of time
it is the bonds of friendship
that gives it it's true meaning.
-transformers show-

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.

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

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"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

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

-Rabbi Julius Gordon

this is my sig line for work

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

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

"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.

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

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

Oooo, I like it!  :thumbsup2:

Terp, you rock! :)

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

:beret:

Quote from: newkris on November 25, 2007, 11:28:06 PM
"when _____ closes a door, it's okay to put a 'do not disturb sign on it.'"  - terp  :pwink: 

God?

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

*waits for Kris or Terp to respond*

:beret:

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

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. 

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

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year

An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.

He fell out of the Stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions

If there are a thousand steps between us and him. he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. - Max Lucado.

"i love you like a rock star!"  - mavrik, of course. :pwink:

"The sense of sin and guilt can become so great, so terrible, as almost to cripple us, by causing us to lose sight of the true effectiveness of the Blood. It seems to us that our sins are so real, and some particular sin may trouble us so many times, that we come to the point where to us our sins loom larger than the Blood of Christ." (from The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee)

But....

1 John 3:20
"For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."

Thank God!

"Let us remember that he is holy and he is righteous, and that a holy and righteous God has the right to say that the Blood is acceptable in his eyes and has fully satisfied him." (from The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee)

:beret:

Cant wait to start THAT book. Should be here tomorrow. :)

the following was posted on a blog on ninetyandnine.com written by kent d. curry.  the quote actually comes from something by Thomas Merton - a Catholic monk. 

quite the humbling thoughts when one considers being a writer who is Christian. 


"The fact that your subject may be very important in itself does not necessarily mean that what you have written about it is important. A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book, even though it may be about the love of God.

"There are many who think that because they have written about God, they have written good books. Then men pick up these books and say: if the ones who say they believe in God cannot find anything better than this to say about it, their religion cannot be worth much."