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Great/inspirational quotes

Keith Martin said:
"God always gives us strength enough for the day. But if we insist on dragging in tomorrow’s cares and piling them on top of today's cares – our strength will not be enough for the load. God will not give additional strength - just to humor our whims of worry and distrust."

J.R. Miller (1840-1912)
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Too true!
 
"1500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you "knew" that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll "know" tomorrow." Kay movie men in black.
 
technically we don't KNOW anything . . . we simply believe beyond doubt ... jim

Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: . . .

you think you are going to heaven? want to find out for sure? Die.
 
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“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
 
This is from author Marianne Williamson and is my favorite. - Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually who are you not to be. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. Its not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As were liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others
 
"Our experiences resemble a jigsaw puzzle. When it is all ready, we shall find that the dark pieces of the puzzle were as important in the completion of the full beauty of the pattern as the brightest sections. The dark background will only bring out in bolder and more gorgeous relief the figures in the picture, in the center of which will be His lovely face."

M. R. DeHaan (1891-1965)
 
"If we have God – no other loss is irreparable! There is surely enough in God's love, to compensate a thousand times for every earthly deprivation! Our lives may be stripped bare – home, friends, riches, comforts, every sweet voice of love, every note of joy – and we may be driven out from brightness and music and tenderness and shelter – into the cold ways of sorrow. Yet if we have God Himself left – ought it not to suffice? Yes, is not He Himself infinitely more than all His gifts?"

J. R. Miller (1840-1912)
Living Without Worry
 
"So many of us, after having entered into some of the deeper realities of our Lord, seek to immediately pull or push others into this wonderful advancement; and then we wonder why they are so slow to learn and seemingly apathetic in their understanding and concern. We so easily forget the many years it took, and by what wandering wilderness ways our Lord had to traverse with us in order to bring us over Jordan and into Canaan."

Miles Stanford (1914-1999)
The Green Letters
 
cnystrom said:
“There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
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That one might have even a sharper point if it said:

“There are 2 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
 
Frank S said:
That one might have even a sharper point if it said:

“There are 2 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
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I'm thinking there are at least 9 types of people who don't understand binary . . . and that's just counting the sexual orientations!
 
Frank S said:
That one might have even a sharper point if it said:

“There are 2 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
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No, it is perfect as it is.
 
"In Scripture God has revealed to us the meaning of work. All work has meaning, whether it be scrubbing a floor or managing a corporation. It is unthinkable that God’s people should view ordinary work as second-best, as less significant than “gospel work.

"Our daily work serves as one of God’s major tools for cultivating and nurturing the life of Christ within us. While we may be eager to have our work used in changing the lives of others, God is eager first to change our own lives through work. Our work can, if we allow it and recognize God’s hand in it, be used to grind us, smooth us, polish us, and fit us for service of the living God."

Larry Peabody
Secular Work is Full-time Service (1974)
 
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