Month: August 2022

― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

―   Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“These are 3 steps in aligning ourselves with Christ.

― https://bigoak.org/3-steps-in-aligning-ourselves-with-christ/

“In a thousand ways, we tell ourselves the somehow, some way we are, or this moment is an exception to God’s rules,  It all exposes that we still have wandering hearts that are all too susceptible to the enemy’s lies.  our wandering hearts don’t always love what God says is good, right, true, lovely , and pure.  Sometimes what God says is best doesn’t look best to us, and sometimes what God says is evil doesn’t appear evil to us.  In those moments, we area danger to ourselves because we have bought into what is completely impossible—that we know more and are wiser than God.  It is the height of the delusion of sin.  It is a dangerous and destructive moral irrationality.  It leads us nowhere good.  It never results in the life that we are seeking.  This “I’m-smarter-than-God” temptation stands as another argument for daily need for grace.”

― Excerpt from New Morning Mercies, Paul David Trip

“There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny. To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what’s good for him. But in the letting go……..is found freedom. In the letting go…….. is found the flight!”

― C. JoyBell C.

“The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul that shall understand him and be blessed; who never needs to be, and never is, in haste; who welcomes the simplest thought of truth or beauty as the return for seed he has sown upon the old fallows of eternity, who rejoices in the response of a faltering moment to the age-long cry of his wisdom in the streets; the God of music, of painting, of building, the Lord of Hosts, the God of mountains and oceans; whose laws go forth from one unseen point of wisdom, and thither return without an atom of loss; the God of history working in time unto Christianity; this God is the God of little children, and he alone can be perfectly, abandonedly simple and devoted.”

― George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, Ii, Iii

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

― John 11:25-26 King James Version

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”

― Mahatma Gandhi