tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53693370989965783832011-09-24T19:23:27.189-04:00"Wisdom, like the best of the honey, will be at the bottom."jessica joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11920527036534104884noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369337098996578383.post-81662735573349358432011-09-24T19:22:00.000-04:002011-09-24T19:23:27.196-04:00

"Most men who begin by being with God, end by fancying that God is with them." ~Myron W. Reed

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Everything I do is creative. The words I speak – they create the world that I live in. If I never spoke another word, or chose to communicate in another way, life would happen to me. It would not be mine. By believing that I have the power to affect my circumstances, and acting on that belief, I create the world I live in. I imagine how I want it to be, and then I go about making it so. Art and

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"It's difficult to get the same fruit as the early church when we value a book they didn't have more than the Holy Spirit they did have."~Bill Johnson

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A few days ago, I found myself with some big questions that were trying to throw off my day. Now I like questions. I like puzzles. I like to figure out how things are supposed to work, how they fit together. This is a good thing; I love this about myself. It is why I'm a bit of a philosopher and a theologian. But I also know that I can get distracted by a problem I haven't worked out yet, and it

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"But truly it is the spirit in me, the breath of Shaddai, that gives them understanding."~Elihu-Job 32:8

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Faith and hope are matters of expectation. Do you simply believe that something is "possible" or do you actually EXPECT it to happen?I know a lot of things about God. For instance, He is good, and He loves me. I believe that God is able to do just about anything He wants. I believe that He wants to bless me. I believe that He can help me in times of trouble. I believe in miracles. Totally

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Worship:[from the old English weorthscipe or worth-ship] to ascribe, assign, attribute, declare worth"Our great, loving and merciful God,I praise you for making Yourself known to us.Yet even in Your disclosure You remain a mystery.You cannot be contained,yet You dwell in my heart.You cannot be restrained, yet You wait for me to follow.Yo cannot be defined, yet You delightin my words of

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"See, then, this present world on one side, with its tragic human problems, and, on the other, Christ and what he stands for - noble character, the ideal of brotherhood, the method of love, belief in the victory of righteousness. What is the towering question rising out of that contrast? Surely, not first of all, Are Christ's ideas theoretically credible? but, Are they, in a world like this,

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‎"Anyone who trades liberty for security will deserve neither and lose both." ~Benjamin Franklin

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Romans 8:28“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God…” I read a sermon this afternoon, given by Harry Emerson Fosdick and published in print in the early 1930s, entitled The Secret of Victorious Living. Now I'm excited to read more of his sermons!Here I have copied some excerpts of the sermon so you can get the gist of it without reading the whole thing. ^_^------

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"Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best thing. And no good thing ever dies.""I guess it all comes down to a choice: Get busy living or get busy dying."~Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

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from: The Little Book of Kitchen Table Wisdomby Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. "The year he went bankrupt, my father bought me a pair of elegant real gold earrings. Opening the box they came in, I had stared at them in a thirteen-year-old's silence, bewildered, feeling the weight of my homeliness, my shyness, my hopeless difference from my classmates who easily joked and flirted and laughed. '

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"What we do in life echoes in eternity."~Gladiator

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"Knowing and choosing what brings me joy is part of being responsible for my own happiness. The pursuit of happiness fails only when the pleasures I seek are not deep enough to sustain me. They, like idols of old, are insubstantial and man made...What if the ability to be joyful is like a muscle? The more we use it, the stronger it grows."~Sue Schmidt

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This evening, after a day filled mostly with silence and a few important phone calls, most of them unsuccessful, I was walking down the street where I grew up (ignoring the weather channel website’s warning that ground-level ozone could approach or even exceed dangerous levels today because of the heat), and thinking about how very - often frustratingly - quiet and still my life is at home.

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"If we fail to give of our self... our passion, our soul... we have no journey at all."~Michael Spinella"Take of the world its colors and forms, its lines and textures, its balance and movements and rhythms: combine all these into a beautiful statement of what it is to be human. Give back to the world the same element of beauty that you as an artist take from it. Create beauty in the world with

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"God, what does it mean to LOVE? Love is unyielding as the grave. The grave never surrenders what it has taken hold of - the people it has captured. Love is as strong as death. Only God has more power than death. It is the only thing in life that is one hundred percent guaranteed outside Him. It doesn't ever give people up to the devil. It never quits. It is always strong. My love will never be

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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"I will not let fear dictate how I pursue what has already been promised to me."

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"Spiritual maturity has nothing to do with how much you know, but with how comfortable you are with love, because that is how comfortable you are with God."~(i'm not sure who said/wrote this)~

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"The best season of your life is always the current season. We do not dwell in a season gone by, nor do we pine for the next." ~ Lau Ying Kheng

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"Revelation is hot stuff! Like a pot of boiling water on a stove, it can burn you if you mishandle it. Always put on your "mittens" of wisdom before trying to carry your cargo of revelation to its place of usefulness and purpose. Otherwise, it might spill on you!"~from Dream Languageby James W. Goll

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"It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart. World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence, but the manifestation of human compassion."~Dalai Lama"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."~Mother Theresa"If in our daily life we can smile

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Never Borrow Sorrow From Tomorrowby Helen Steiner RiceDeal only with the present,Never step into tomorrow,For God asks us just to trust HimAnd to never borrow sorrowFor the future is not ours to knowAnd it my never be,So let us live and give our bestAnd give it lavishly -For to meet tomorrow's troublesBefore they are even oursIs to anticipate the SaviorAnd to doubt His all-wise powers -So let us

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"God would much rather that we learn to be faithful in a few humble commitments than we continually despair over our failures because we take on too much....We will choose spiritual disciplines only if we have a strong desire to grow. If our desire to develop spirtually is not deep enough to overcome our resistances. we will find ourselves unable to maintain any discipline, however good our

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this is also from:Storyby Steven James"~mystery of mysteriestruth of all truthsfinder of the lost,here i am.unriddle me.~*'Christ is God's ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one.'~Paul's description of the mysterious man who transformed his life~(1 Corinthians 1:24 *Message*)I used to think I knew Jesus because I knew about him. But knowing someone's resume and being someone's brother

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There is an old Welsh saying, "Wisdom, like the best of the honey, will be at the bottom."I am a student. I have always been a student, and I will always be a student. I have a passion for learning, and for finding truth and wisdom wherever it may be found.So I have decided it a reasonable endeavor to acquire a taste for the honey at the bottom of the jar - to notice things that stand out to me,

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The following are a number of quotes from the book Story, by Steven James. The individual quotes are not all directly related, but they all have to do with how the Bible tells the overarching story of God's love for us, His creation, and how that relates to the stories that are our lives. James has a unique and engaging way of telling the story of the Bible, as it all points to what Jesus did on

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