Share a favorite quote.

[nChrist]

"The religion of Christ is the religion of joy. Christ came to take away our sins, to roll off our curse, to unbind our chains, to open our prison house, to cancel our debt; in a word, to give us the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Is not this joy? Where can we find a joy so real, so deep, so pure, so lasting? There is every element of joy – deep, ecstatic, satisfying, sanctifying joy – in the gospel of Christ. The believer in Jesus is essentially a happy man. The child of God is, from necessity, a joyful man. His sins are forgiven, his soul is justified, his person is adopted, his trials are blessings, his conflicts are victories, his death is immortality, his future is a heaven of inconceivable, unthought-of, untold, and endless blessedness. With such a God, such a Savior, and such a hope, is he not, ought he not, to be a joyful man?"

- Octavius Winslow

 

[nChrist]

"How SELF in its protean shapes self-will, self-seeking, self-elation, self-assertion, leaves its dents and stains on the shield of faith! Happy the day when this spirit from the pit shall be exorcized forever!"

- John MacDuff 1895
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[davedajobauk]

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~H. Jackson Browne


Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
If he counted them up as he ought to
he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[nChrist]

"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."

- Alphonsus Liguori

 

[davedajobauk]

 

[nChrist]

Amen Brother Dave - nice graphic!

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."

- Jim Elliot
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[nChrist]

"What inexpressible joy for me, to look up through the apple-blossoms and the fluttering leaves, and to see God's love there; to listen to the thrush that has built his nest among them, and to feel God's love, who cares for the birds, in every note that swells his little throat; to look beyond to the bright blue depths of the sky, and feel they are a canopy of blessing,--the roof of the house of my Father; that if clouds pass over it, it is the unchangeable light they veil; that, even when the day itself passes, I shall see that the night itself only unveils new worlds of light; and to know that if I could unwrap fold after fold of God's universe, I should only unfold more and more blessing, and see deeper and deeper into the love which is at the heart of all."

- Elizabeth Charles

 

[nChrist]

"He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly."

- Martin Luther

 

[nChrist]

"Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones."

- F. W. Faber
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[davedajobauk]

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe';
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-
-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires
and affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compasion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is,
in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
[SIZE=-1](as quoted in Quantum Reality, Beyond the New Physics, p. 250)[/SIZE] -- Albert Einstein

 

[Ration]

I always like this one.

 

[davedajobauk]

You will find, as you look back upon your life,
that the moments when you really lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love
– Henry Drummond.

 

[nChrist]

"Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord; and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee."

- Augustine
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[angelwind]

"Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord; and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee." ​

- Augustine​

Amen!

 

[davedajobauk]

via: Robert Haddad

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Thank you Robert

dave

 

[Ration]

via: Robert Haddad




Thank you Robert

dave

Reminds me, whenever a friend of mine or I are feeling defeated. We ask the other person "Do you remember the guy who gave up? No? Neither does anyone else".

 

[nChrist]

"Neither go back in fear and misgiving to the past, nor in anxiety and forecasting to the future; but lie quiet under His hand, having no will but His."

- H. E. Manning
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[davedajobauk]

 

[nChrist]

"We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word."

- R. W. Emerson
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[nChrist]

"Retire inwardly; wait to feel somewhat of God's Spirit, discovering and drawing away from that which is contrary to His holy nature, and leading into that which is acceptable to Him. As the mind is joined to this, some true light and life is received."

- I. Penington
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