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Often, I read (and sometimes hear) certain things
that bear repeating.
Here are a few of them. . .
"This is going to be good. I can tell."
Dory, Finding Nemo
Anyone who has never
made a mistake
has never tried
anything new.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Extinquish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal
my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.
Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my
heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll
feel you burn in every drop of my blood.
from Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this
world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. "
Elwood P. Dowd, (Jimmy Stewart) in the movie Harvey
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Quote provided by Julie Bell--my Holy Land trip roomie:
"The Bible says that if you talk to
somebody with your mouth, and
your heart does not love them,
that you are like a person standing there smashing two cymbals together.
You are only annoying
everybody around you."
Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz)
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"We do things 'well' and with a 'ly'"
Dawn Mitchell, sister extraordinaire, explaining adverbs.
"The same thing was true of his work in the kitchen, for which he had a naturally strong aversion; having accustomed himself to doing everything there for the love of God, and asking His grace to do his work, he found he
had become quite proficient in his culinary chores during the fifteen years he had worked
in the kitchen."
recalled of Brother Lawrence by Abbe' Joseph de Beaufort, vicar general of Cardinal Louis
Antoine de Noailles, page 41, The Practice of the Presence of God
If you ever get
so much education
you think you are better
than somebody else,
you need to go back to school.
Daddy
(AKA Dr. Harold M. Mitchell)
It's nice to be nice
to the nice.
Frank Burns, M*A*S*H
“You are a child of God and God takes great delight in you. Through the Holy Spirit, God is giving
you everything you need to live the life God is calling you to live.”
Dr.
Guy Sayles, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Asheville, to each person after he or she is baptized.
Bernese blew air out between her lips. "I didn't say Methodists were going to hell.
Fisher wanted to visit her friend's church over in Loganville for some picnic day they had. I was telling her she didn't want
to fall in with them. Methodists think everybody who's born is already bound for heaven or hell and there's nothing you can
do about it, like there's no grace and Jesus don't matter."
I shook my head. "You can't say that kind of thing to Fisher, Bernese. You knkow
how she is. And if you mean predestination, that's not the Methodists. That's the Presbyterians."
Bernese shrugged. "Well, the Methodists believe something stupid or else they'd
be Baptists."
From Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson (Warner Books, 2006) page 82
"Fly a quail
through here
and every one
of 'em would point."
Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith Show,
illustrating his point that all the women
at Mrs. Wiley's party are dogs.
I have one life and one chance to
make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now,
my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional
-- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to
try to make a difference.”
Jimmy Carter
(thinkexist.com)
Prayer is not asking.
It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one's weakness...
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
Mahatma Ghandi
Contributed by my niece, Emma Weiss:
"... her old grandmother used to say,
'When a star falls,
a soul is going up to God.'"
The
Little Match Girl, by Jerry Pinkney
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Anonymous,
From The Baptist Hymnal, number 448 (Convention Press, 1991)
I am weak but thou art strong; Jesus keep me from all wrong;
I’ll be satisfied as long, as I walk, let me walk
close to thee.
Just a closer walk with thee: Grant it, Jesus, is my plea.
Daily walking close to Thee, let it be, Dear Lord, let it
be.
Thro’ this world of toil and snares, if I falter
Lord who cares?
Who with me my burden shares? None but Thee, dear Lord,
none but Thee.
chorus
When my feeble life is o’er, Time for me will
be no more;
Guide me gently, safely o’er. To thy kingdom shore,
to Thy shore.
chorus
The Lord God has given me the
tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens--
wakens my ear to listen as those
who are taught.
Isaiah 50:4
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