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My Favorite Quotes
: I like little tidbits that say a lot.
"Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart."
-Angela on My So-Called Life
Work like you don't need the money,
love like you've never been hurt,
live like there is no tomorrow,
dance like no one is watching.
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
-Douglas Coupland
"Freedom is found in the heart of another. It matters not how the connection is made. Whether it is air molecules which carry thoughts and feelings on sound waves as I speak or electrons in a wire as I type, that a part of me is able to make its way from within me to within another is all that matters. It is only those who do not see the lines which connect us all who are ever alone."
- Lygeia
"In that day," declares the Lord, "You will call my 'My Husband'. You will no longer call me 'My Master'".
"Tonight thousands of people on this earth will die of starvation. Most of you will not give a shit. And most of you will be more upset with the fact that I said, 'shit' than that thousands of people will die tonight."
- attributed to Tony Campolo
Isaiah 57:18-21
"I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him, creating praise on the lips of the mourners in Israel. Peace, peace, to those far and near," says the LORD. "And I will heal them." But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
Luke 1:68
"Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people."
Madeleine L'Engle
"Someone asked me about creation versus evolution. I said I can't get very excited about it. There's only one question worth asking, and that is, 'Did God make it?' And if the answer is 'Yes,' then why get so excited about it?"
"There aren't any easy answers to the questions being raised today, and it may be too easy for me to remember Jesus saying, "Greater love has no man than to give up his life for his friend." Or wife, or children. Isn't staying with your family sometimes a real equivalent of giving up your own life? Cannot it sometimes be a blessing, especially if it is given with graciousness, not rigid rectitude? I believe that it can, because I know of families where this is what has happened. Sacrifice is no longer popular, but I think that sometimes it can lead to true joy. Even the simplest of unions does not come free. There is always sacrifice."
"If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation."
"What I believe is so magnificent... To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians."
"God says, 'I love you! I love you enough to come and be with you. And because I live forever, you will, too.'"
"The Holy Spirit came not only to comfort us, but to show us how to live in Christ, and only as we are in Christ can we begin to understand the mysteries of faith."
"Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed."
"We are all supposed to be obedient to that love, but we forget love whenever we want power over someone else. We human beings mess it up, over and over again, but God comes into our lives to help us overcome our stiff-neckedness. Indeed, God so loved the world that he sent his only-begotten Son to live with us and teach us how to be the fully human creatures our Maker has always planned for us to be."
"If it has to be mine it is an idol."
"Play is part of intimacy, and in our busy world we don't play enough."
"To be in a state of unforgiveness is to know hell, at least in a small way."
George MacDonald
"Either not a sparrow falls to the ground without him, or their is no God and we are Fatherless children."
"Love is eternal; how then should its object perish?"
"The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is to cry, "Father!" from a full heart. I would help whom I may to call thus on the Father."
"There can be no deliverance but to come out of his evil dream into the glory of God."
The fact that we may be ourselves to blame for our sufferings is no reason why we should not go to God to deliver us from them."
"Self is a quicksand, God the only Rock."
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