Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
"The glory of God is a man fully alive" Saint Irenaeus
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. Soren Kierkegaard
Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Ephesians 6:18
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints
Will Rogers – “I don’t know any jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910, passed to me on a dark day by a long time brother in Christ.
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." Walter Winchell
William Lee Payne "I am more than a conqueror. I will always triumph. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Devils can't defeat me. People can't disillusion me. Weather cannot weary me. Sickness cannot stop me. Money can't buy me. Governments can't silence me, and Hell can't handle me."
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Ships sit peacefully in the harbor, but that is not why they were made" Author unknown
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson (From Seth Najamon's profile)
Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds."
- HK-47 describes his views on love in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
US movie actor & director (1907 - 1979)
Every heart's a furnace, His Word is the fuel, His Spirit the flame. Our very being was designed for communion with the God who IS all consuming fire. He doesn't look like fire, He IS fire and the Holy Spirit has been given to pour God's love into the furnace of the human frame.
Misty Edwards
Until we come to terms with war as the context of our days, we will not understand life. We will misinterpret 90 percent of what is happening around us and to us. It will be very hard to believe that God's intentions toward us are life abundant; it will be even harder not to feel that somehow we are just blowing it. Worse, we will begin to accept some really awful things about God. (John Eldridge- Waking the Dead)
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
"The glory of God is a man fully alive" Saint Irenaeus
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. Soren Kierkegaard
Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Ephesians 6:18
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints
Will Rogers – “I don’t know any jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910, passed to me on a dark day by a long time brother in Christ.
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." Walter Winchell
William Lee Payne "I am more than a conqueror. I will always triumph. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Devils can't defeat me. People can't disillusion me. Weather cannot weary me. Sickness cannot stop me. Money can't buy me. Governments can't silence me, and Hell can't handle me."
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Ships sit peacefully in the harbor, but that is not why they were made" Author unknown
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson (From Seth Najamon's profile)
Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds."
- HK-47 describes his views on love in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
US movie actor & director (1907 - 1979)
Every heart's a furnace, His Word is the fuel, His Spirit the flame. Our very being was designed for communion with the God who IS all consuming fire. He doesn't look like fire, He IS fire and the Holy Spirit has been given to pour God's love into the furnace of the human frame.
Misty Edwards
Until we come to terms with war as the context of our days, we will not understand life. We will misinterpret 90 percent of what is happening around us and to us. It will be very hard to believe that God's intentions toward us are life abundant; it will be even harder not to feel that somehow we are just blowing it. Worse, we will begin to accept some really awful things about God. (John Eldridge- Waking the Dead)
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
