Favorite verses or quotes

[Romanseight2005]

"When an abusive person sees his dirty face in a mirror, he sets about washing the mirror."
Lundy Bancroft

 

[gabrielle2012]

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anais Nin

 

[mkgal1]

Jesus didn't come to edit our behavior, He came to change our heart! ~Unknown

 

[mkgal1]

"Hope is the ability to hear the melody of the future; faith is the courage to dance to it today." ~ Unknown.

"Joy is the serious business of heaven." ~C.S. Lewis

 

[mkgal1]

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of our life to a larger goal. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

[mkgal1]

"Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

 

[mkgal1]

“Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

[Romanseight2005]

“Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Exactly! Thank you for posting this! I feel like it's very timely! Mkgal, you know about a situation at my job, where I am feeling conflicted about what I should do. This I believe, is a Word from God. I feel very passionately that I need to take a bold stand.

 

[mkgal1]

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show them up. -Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

[Romanseight2005]

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show them up. -Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

[mkgal1]

God's vision compels us to look beyond ourselves, to ponder a picture of how things were meant to be that leaves us aching for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to look for ways to participate in moving the world toward that goal. - Carolyn Custis James, "Half the Sky"

 

[Romanseight2005]

"It takes TWO to dance a beautiful dance (healthy marriage).........only ONE to mess it up. Both spouses need to be fully committed to loving and cherishing one another."
MKgal1

 

[Romanseight2005]

I'm now convinced that all it takes to be "controversial" or "divisive" in our shared evangelical sub-culture is to relay slightly uncomfortable facts to a moderately sized audience while simultaneously possessing a _________(female body part).
Dan Evans

 

[mkgal1]

When the power of love overcomes the love of power.....there will be peace. ~Jimmi Hendrix

 

[Romanseight2005]

When the power of love overcomes the love of power.....there will be peace. ~Jimmi Hendrix

 

[mkgal1]

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

~ Henry Ford

 

[Romanseight2005]

"There’s nothing wrong (and a whole lot right) with protecting and providing for the people you love, but when that protection comes with a tax on the person’s dignity, free will, and development–well, the Mafia offers that, too! "
Jenny Rae-Armstrong

 

[ImaginaryDay]

"I want you to really get this. Some of you really need a 'Super-Devil' in your life. You do. Otherwise there would be no one on whom to blame your problems. But the Bible doesn't say that. It says 'these are the works of the flesh ', not the works of the devil" - Rev. Lee Stoneking.

 

[Romanseight2005]

"I want you to really get this. Some of you really need a 'Super-Devil' in your life. You do. Otherwise there would be no one on whom to blame your problems. But the Bible doesn't say that. It says 'these are the works of the flesh ', not the works of the devil" - Rev. Lee Stoneking.

 

[Niffer]

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis