Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment. --Charles Stanley
It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. "The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us."
Mike Yaconelli "Love is not what makes the world go round. Love is what makes the trip
worthwhile." - Franklin Jones "When two people are at one in their innermost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze, and when two people understand each other in their innermost hearts, their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids." - I Ching "Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven." - Bertrand Russell "Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternative lies in loneliness, destruction, and despair." -Anonymous "Loving people are happy, and happy people are loving." - Ken Keyes "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." - Boethius "Love is the only gold." -Tennyson Man may try to understand love and all its effects, but unless he knows the love of God, one can never fully know love, for God IS love, and the gift He gives to us, its foundation, is constructed in love. It is nice to show our affection to those we love by sending them flowers and candy, or doing kind deeds for them, but true love is not about fleshly desires, or emotions that make our physical bodies feel good, but it feeds the spirit as only God and His son, Jesus Christ can do. Love has one source and this source is God. "Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me." ~ Emily Dickinson, Hope "The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope." ~ Victor Hugo from Les Misérables "I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking God to do His work though me." - Hudson Taylor
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces to their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum
Sometimes we try to move a giant tree when God only expects us to plant a seed. You do what you can, and God will do what you cannot - Diane Hampton Spend your time counting your blessings, not airing your complaints Success is a journey, not a destination TGIF - Today God Is First Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory. So be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord's work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. 1 Cor. 15:57-58 The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge The 10 Commandments are not a multiple choice The idol of self is a sorry substitute for God There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. - St. Teresa of Avila |
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