Yet Another Quote

May 4, 2009

I’m really getting into quotes lately!  Here’s one from Dave Gibbons, from his book The Monkey and the Fish:

“Most of the world can relate better and more positively to a prostitute who humbly admits her shortcomings than to some of us who have learned to manage our image and pimp the gospel.”

Wow!  True that!

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Another Great Quote

May 2, 2009

“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”

– Edwin Land (inventor of instant photography)

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Great Quote on Prayer

May 1, 2009

praying-handsA recent e-mail I received from the Tuscaloosa Prayer Network included this great quote:

“Satan dreads nothing but prayer.   The church that lost its Christ was full of good works.   Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance.   Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways.   The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying.   He fears nothing from prayerless religion.   He laughs at our toil, mocks our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.” (S. Chadwick)

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Great Quote on Habit, Character, and Destiny

March 28, 2009

Great quote my wife came across:

“We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.”

–Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus

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Great Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

July 27, 2008

“Great minds discuss ideas.  Average minds discuss events.  Small minds discuss people.”

True that.

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Great John Eldridge Quotes

June 11, 2008

I’m reading John Eldridge’s book, “Walking with God.”  Man, God is getting all up in my STUFF with this book!  Check out this quote from page 86:

“We really believe that God’s primary reason for being is to provide us with happiness, give us a good life.  It doesn’t even occur to us that God is meant to be our all, and until he is our all, we are subhuman.  The first and greatest command is to love God with our whole being.”

 

And on page 87…

 

“And so God must, from time to time, and sometimes very insistently, disrupt our lives so that we release our grasping of life here and now.  Usually through pain.  God is asking us to let go of the things we love and have given our hearts to, so that we can give our hearts even more fully to him.  He thwarts us in our attempts to make life work so that our efforts fail, and we must face the fact that we don’t really look to God for life.  Our first reaction is usually to get angry with him, which only serves to make the point.  Don’t you hear people say, “Why did God let this happen?” far more than you hear them say, “Why aren’t I more fully given over to God?”

 

And one more paragraph:

 

“Until God has become our all, and we are fully his, we will continue to make idols of the good things he gives us.  We are like a child who throws a fit because he cannot have a toy or watch TV.  In the moment, he could care less that his mother adores him.  His world is out of sorts.  He does not see that his heart is not in the right place.  He needs his mother’s love and comfort far more than he needs the thing he’s made an idol of.”

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