cool quotes

[StreetPreacher]

Hell's Hot, But Jesus Saves!

 

[freespirit2001]

ON A BRIDGE ACROSS FOREVER

On a bridge across forever,
We have found the perfect love,
Pure and sweet, alive with passion,
Sent to us by God above...

On a bridge across forever,
We will banish pain and fear,
And move onward, sharing always
All the things that makes life dear...

On a bridge across forever,
We will live eternally...
Bound on earth, and joined hereafter...
Love incarnate...you and me..."

Richard Bach

 

[tulc]

Nothing is more dangerous to the advancement of God's kingdom than religion. But this is what Christianity has become. Do you not know that it is possible to kill Christ with such Christianity! After all, what is more important - Christianity or Christ? And I'll say even more: we can kill Christ with the Bible! Which is greater: the Bible or Christ? Yes, we can even kill Christ with our prayer. When we approach God with our prayers full of self-love and self-satisfaction, when the aim of our prayers is to make our world great, our prayers are in vain.
-Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

 

[tulc]

Trying to find the way home is the thing that convinces us we are lost.
We're not lost.
We're not alone.
We've never even left home.
-Rumi

 

[midnight star]

"A sandwich is a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal"

 

[midnight star]

Jesus saves...by shopping wisely and using coupons!

 

[midnight star]

Jesus saves...and takes half damage. (DnD reference)

 

[midnight star]

Jesus saves...passes to Moses, Moses passes it up the ice to Buddha, Buddha drops it back to Isis, she shoots! she scores! The crowd goes wild!

 

[elanor]

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer

 

[elanor]

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. --C.S. Lewis

 

[tulc]

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[freespirit2001]

"And a highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Holy Way;
the unclean shall not pass over it;
and the fools shall not err therein.
No lion shall be there,
nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
but the redeemed shall walk there.
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."

Isaiah 35:8-10

 

[elanor]

That's one of my favorite scriptures to sing, FreeSpirit.


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
--Winston Churchill

 

[Christi]

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. --George Eliot

One truly Christian life will do more to prove the divine origin of Christianity than many lectures. It is of much greater importance to develop Christian character, than to exhibit Christian evidences. --J.M. Gibson

 

[tulc]

"I love you soulfully and bodyfully,
properly and improperly,
every way a woman can be loved."
~George Bernard Shaw
(for Mrs. tulc)

 

[Athalia]

Loved the quotes!

 

[Athalia]

A CREED FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey...

I asked for health, that I might do great things
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things...

I asked for riches, that I might be happy
I was given poverty, that I might be wise...

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God...

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things...

I got nothing I asked for - but everything I hoped for...

Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers wer answered
I am among men, most richly blessed!



How completely awesome is that?!?!

 

[freespirit2001]

" Music is higher revelation than all wisdom or philosophy." Beethoven

 

[Christi]

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness.
--Richard C. Trench

 

[elanor]

Oh, Christi, those quotes by George Elliot and J.M. Gibson are wonderful!

I went to hear a speaker tonight who dismissed us with this wonderful Franciscan benediction:

May God bless you with discomfort...
at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships,
so that you may live deep within your heart.

May God bless you with anger...
at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,
so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace.

May God bless you with tears...
to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war,
so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.

And may God bless you with enough foolishness...
to believe that you can make a difference in this world,
so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

Amen