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[HumbleBee]

When a spool of thread or ball of wool is dropped, it quickly unwinds, so will one's character and eventually their life and relationships when spiritual disciplines, such as prayer and Bible study are 'dropped', neglected.

Tiz reasonable then to sow what you want to reap and on the contrary do not sow what you do not want to reap in return.

 

[tulc]

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
-John Taylor

 

[nadroj1985]

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination --Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"

 

[HumbleBee]

The Bible encourages us to seek the face of God, so that when He puts us in the face of others, they realize He is seeking them too!

 

[elanor]

"Life isn't about the breaths we take, it's about the moments that take our breath away"

Hope, this is beautiful! Thank you for posting it.

 

[Philippe2]

There are two kinds of Christians: Those that wait on God and those that God are waiting for,

 

[Christi]

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

--Audrey Hepburn

 

[tulc]

As long as we look for some kind of pay for what we do, as long as we want to get something from God in some kind of exchange, we are like the merchants. If you want to be rid of the commercial spirit, then by all means do all you can in the way of good works, but do so solely for the praise of God. Live as if you did not exist. Expect and ask nothing in return. Then the merchant inside you will be driven out of the temple God has made. Then God alone dwells there. See! This is how the temple is cleared: when a person thinks only of God and honors him alone. Only such a person is free and genuine.
-Meister Eckhart

 

[tulc]

Do I believe in infant baptism? Heck, sir, I've seen it with my own eyes!
-Mark Twain

 

[tulc]

Okay, Okay, it all makes sense now...
I never looked at it this way before:
MENtal illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause
GUYnecologist
AND ---.
When we have REAL trouble, it's a
HISterectomy.
Ever notice how all of women's problems start with MEN?
-anon

 

[elanor]

(I posted this in another thread, but wanted to share it here, too. )

God, Thou Art Love

If I forget,
Yet God remembers! If these hands of mine
Cease from their clinging, yet the hands divine
Hold me so firmly that I cannot fall;
And if sometimes I am too tired to call
For Him to help me, then He reads the prayer
Unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care.

I dare not fear, since certainly I know
That I am in God's keeping, shielded so
From all that else would harm, and in the hour
Of stern temptation strengthened by His power;
I tread no path in life to Him unknown;
I lift no burden, bear no pain, alone:
My soul a calm, sure hiding-place has found:
The everlasting arms my life surround.

God, Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
I know Thee who has kept my path, and made
Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow
So that it reached me like a solemn joy;
It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love.

--Robert Browning

 

[elanor]

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

--Audrey Hepburn

Thank you for posting this, Christi! I had read it once a long time ago, and couldn't remember the wording enough to Google it, nor could I recall who said it. I thought I'd never find it again!

 

[HumbleBee]

Surmising that impartiality does not mean sitting between 2 raging bulls patting their heads with platitudes.

 

[tulc]

Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.
(Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all
my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away)

 

[praying]

"We are living in a time of unbearable dissonance between promise and performance; between good politics and good policy; between professed and practiced family values; between racial creed and racial deed; between calls for community and rampant individualism and greed; and between our capacity to prevent and alleviate human deprivation and disease and our political and spiritual will to do so. "

"If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out."


"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation."

 

[Melbelle]

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[freespirit2001]

"CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE" Dorothy Law Nolte ( from her poem )


"If children live with criticism, they will learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they will learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they will learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with encouragement, they learn to be confident.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those around them."

 

[oworm]

"The stone wasnt rolled away to let Jesus out !! It was rolled to let us in !! "

 

[Bulldog]

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." ~Charles De Gaulle

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese" ~G. K. Chesterton

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." ~Frank Zappa

 

[tulc]

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.
-Jean Arp