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Great/inspirational quotes

steve said:
One of my favorite phrases is: “Do what is right and suffer the consequences.”
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Of course that reminded me of this song from my childhood days in church.


I think it should be sung with more GUSTO given the way the world is and the amount of conviction accomplshing that is a gonna take. Jus sayin' 8-)
 
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Letters to Malcolm
 
So many of us live our lives as if there is still so much time to love. I sometimes find myself pretending that death has no purchase on my world. Sometimes I write obscure scholarly articles as if I had forever. What will many of our accomplishments mean in that end-time? What will define our stay in the cosmos? I would argue that it is this: how deeply, how fully, how broadly we have loved.

With what time is left to us, we are called to settle for nothing less than a passionate love affair with God and with life, embracing God and the creation through which God shimmers, living madly in the reality that this universe is not purposeless, but that we are called toward the drama and pain of life and love lived to the fullest.

David M. Carr
The Erotic Word
 
"Adversity produces pro-social behaviors in people. Adversity makes people act well. The lack of adversity, safety and comfort allow people to act selfishly."

Sebastian Junger
The Joe Rogan Experience
June 8, 2017
 
So many of us live our lives as if there is still so much time to love. I sometimes find myself pretending that death has no purchase on my world. Sometimes I write obscure scholarly articles as if I had forever. What will many of our accomplishments mean in that end-time? What will define our stay in the cosmos? I would argue that it is this: how deeply, how fully, how broadly we have loved.

With what time is left to us, we are called to settle for nothing less than a passionate love affair with God and with life, embracing God and the creation through which God shimmers, living madly in the reality that this universe is not purposeless, but that we are called toward the drama and pain of life and love lived to the fullest.

David M. Carr
The Erotic Word
 
"Laziness to investigate new doctrines we excuse as loyalty to old ones." –

Alan Burns
(1884-1929)
 
"All of our trials, tribulations and sufferings are forming the basis for our total appreciation of God."

André Sneidar
 
Yes true, but when you are writing your PhD thesis one has to change a long held truth in favor of a new and better and more encompassing truth. Remember that was true yesterday but not necessarily today.
 
"He Who is the Origin of all will be its Consummation."

William Mealand (1873-1957)
 
Many things are being constructed to which the Name of the Lord is being affixed – things which appear fine and great, but which are destined to collapse … The ecclesia is nothing which man can build by any resource in himself personally or collectively. It is an organism, not an organization. We are members of His Body. Build that, if you can! Launch that; organize that; “run” that! It cannot be done!

T. Austin-Sparks (1888-1971)
A Witness and a Testimony
(October 1928)
 
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I would add that if you don’t paddle, you are at the whims of winds and currents.
In fact, you may have to paddle diligently in order to not be taken downstream.
 
"His judgments are designed to correct men, not to destroy them."

Stephen Jones
 
"A man's success and satisfaction in life is predominantly predicated on his willingness to sacrifice whatever is necessary to get what he wants and to accept the ramifications of any lack in life for which he was unwilling to make sufficient sacrifice. Cain's story in Genesis 4 is the first scriptural example of this principle: his willingness to sacrifice to YHWH paled in comparison to Abel's, but when YHWH favored Abel's as a result, Cain first grows angry rather than accepting his insufficiency, kills his brother, and then even complains about the actual and potential consequences of his actions. To this day, we haven't fully learned this lesson of acknowledging how much or how little we're willing to sacrifice in order to get what we say we want in life."

Winston Borden
 
God is in our neighborhood because I carry His divine life within me. I put God … in close proximity to others. With God in me, simply being present and available is “ministry.” …

I’ve come to see the significance of my encounters with people is not pointing them to God as much as actually being an expression of God. The “Body of Christ” metaphor has grown in significance for me – that Christ continues His presence and ministry on Earth in, through, and as us…

God is not somewhere up in the sky; He’s living His life in and through us, the Body of Christ, in the neighborhoods where we live, the places we work and play, and the people we come across each day.

Jim Palmer
Wide Open Spaces (2007)
 
Here are a few from Jean de La Bruyere

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
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“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”
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“The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.”
 
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