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Great/inspirational quotes

"Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:6-7

There is a large difference between worrying about possible future trials – and being prepared for them if they should come. Those who daily commune with God, breathing His life into their souls – become prepared with that hidden strength that preserves them from falling in the day of trial.

"Prepared for every good work." II Timothy 2:21

"Be prepared in season and out of season" II Timothy 4:2

J. R. Miller (1840-1912)
 
The powers of darkness want people ignorant of God, and they accomplish this by engaging men and women in the needless exercise of working to win God’s affection. Religion demands that people “walk the line” to win the affection of a God Who already could not possibly love them more.

Martin Zender
How to Be Free From Sin While Smoking a Cigarette
 
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

G.K. Chesterton
 
"Pain always leaves a gift. Pain can either make you bitter or make you better."

Melanie King
February 23, 2022
 
“If everyone just rode bicycles for 15 days, we can slow the spread of these gas prices.”

Behizy
 
“Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I [believe] that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense be taken as the test or gauge of one’s religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing. It may affect your comfort in the thing, but it has nothing to do with the reality of the thing. If God loves you, it is of no account, as far as the fact goes, whether you feel that He Loves you or do not feel it.”

Hannah Whitall Smith
The Unselfishness of God, 1903
 
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.“

Billie Jean King
 
Satan’s sphere is in the corruption of the truth rather than in the degradation of the flesh.

E.W. Bullinger
 
“Entrenched powers remove men’s tongues not to prevent them from telling lies, but to stop them from speaking the truth.”

George R. R. Martin
 
"Most human beings are like this: they are trying to fix everything with the intellect, which is a cutting instrument. With a cutting instrument, if you are trying to fix everything, all that you will have is a bruised life. That's what they are having. If there are failures in their life, they are suffering. If there are successful, they are dying of tension. If they are poor, they are suffering from their poverty. If they become rich, they suffer their taxes. If they're unmarried, they suffer marriage, and if they're married, oh, don't tell me, all the things that they do, because you are trying to handle everything with a cutting instrument. Naturally you are fully bruised and bleeding by the time you are done with life. So, the perception of life is beyond intellect. Intellect is not perception. The intellect is coming out with permutations and combinations of information that you already possess. Words are a product of our intellect. Language is a product of our intellect. Intellectually, you can not think illogically. You can only think logically. Somebody may not agree with your logic, but you can only think logically within yourself. Nobody thinks illogically. You may think the other guy is illogical, but he thinks you're illogical, but within your mind you are never illogical. You have the equipment [to perceive outside of intellect, but] you haven't even opened the wraps. Everybody has it. They are just not using it."

Sadhguru
The Joe Rogan Experience
March 14, 2022
 
"What I've learned is that, no matter how far I've gone from my own country, I always conclude at the end of the day that we all are human beings, and as such we all want the same five values in our lives: (1) everybody wants to be loved; (2) everybody wants to be respected; (3) everybody wants to be heard; (4) we all want to be treated fairly; and (5) we all basically want the same thing for our family that everybody else wants for their families."

Daryl Davis
Author, Klan-Destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan
quote from March 15 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience
 
"We've finally figured out how to trick feminists into defending men."

Jim Treacher, in the wake of Twitter banning The Babylon Bee for naming 'Rachel' Levine "Man of the Year"
 
"If you spend more time managing your woman and her emotions than you spend on your purpose, then you have a problem."

Kevin Samuels
March 22, 2022
 
"Nothing would be more fatal than for the government of states to get into the hands of the experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge: and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows only what hurts is a safer guide, than any vigorous direction of a specialised character. Why should you assume that all except doctors, engineers, etc. are drones or worse? . . . If the Rule is to be an expert in anything he should be an expert in everything; and that is plainly impossible."

Winston Churchill
1901, in a letter to H.G. Wells
 
"Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident."

"One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple."

-Psalms 27:3-4

"It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.”

-Peter Steele
 
It is a very simple life when the one fact has laid hold of our hearts that Christ lives in us. Whatever situation we are in, we are then able to look away from it and recognize in faith that the Lord Himself has put us there, and is revealing Himself through us in it. He puts us in difficult places and with difficult people, so that He can love them through us. We are forced to keep seeing God working all out in perfect love, even when the externals are so imperfect.

Norman P. Grubb (1895-1993)
Notes from Norman
 
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable” — Socrates
 
‘The world’, although ‘common’ to all persons and in that sense ‘shareable’, is possibly never experienced by two individuals in absolutely the same way. When two men look at a landscape, and one likes it and the other does not, there is already a gulf between them. To one man the landscape may simply be itself, full of its ‘is-ness’: he feels a delicate sadness, perhaps, at his otherness from it. To the other the ‘same’ trees and sky and grass are seen as creation: as a veil, revealing through themselves their Creator. For one man there may be little or no sense of connection between himself and nature outside himself; for the same person, on another occasion, there may not even be any essential distinctions between inside, outside, self, and nature. In so far as we experience the world differently, in a sense we live in different worlds.

R.D. Laing, Self and Others, 1961
 
“Some of us always want to be illuminated saints with golden haloes and the flush of inspiration, and to have the saints of God dealing with us all the time. A gilt-edge saint is no good; he is abnormal, unfit for daily life, and altogether unlike God. We are here as men and women, not as half-fledged angels, to do the work of the world, and to do it with an infinitely greater power to stand the turmoil because we have been born from above. If we try to re-introduce the rare moments of inspiration, it is a sign that it is not God we want. We are making a fetish of the moments when God did come and speak, and insisting that He must do it again; whereas what God wants us to do is to ‘walk by faith’.”

Oswald Chambers, 1874-1917
My Utmost for His Highest, published 1935
May 1 entry
 
"Bicycle Day rendered Dunbar's Number irrelevant."

Winston Borden, in a speech on the 80th anniversary of Bicycle Day
 
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