Another great GMD quote! Thanks, FL.
Dear Paidion: George MacDonald stands as one who follows the Lamb in the withersoever. I treasure the thought of meeting him on the other side.
“The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God’s hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.” -A.J. Gossip
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”-- Roy T. Bennett
Don’t sacrifice your happiness on the altar of activism. Although happiness involves activity as Aristotle observed, it also involves rest, appreciation, enjoyment, gratitude, contentment, and contemplation. These, especially the last five, are deeply conservative. And they lie beyond the political. - BV
“Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.” -William Barclay
“The purpose of the cross is to do away with you, blessed riddance.” -A.W. Tozer
God has destined a cross for each of us. His cross is not your cross.- David E.L. Johnson
“Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?”-- Gregory Peck
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” -John Wesley
“Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.”
“Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth.” -John Wesley
“Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”-- Bill Watterson
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”-- Og Mandino
- Scroll I – I will form good habits and become their slave.
- Scroll II – I will greet this day with love in my heart.
- Scroll III – I will persist until I succeed.
- Scroll IV – I am nature’s greatest miracle.
- Scroll V – I will live this day as if it is my last.
- Scroll VI – Today I will be master of my emotions.
- Scroll VII – I will laugh at the world (Keep perspective)
- Scroll VIII – Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
- Scroll IX – I will act now.
- Scroll X – I will pray for guidance. -Og Mandino
“I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an “I” in independence, individuality and integrity.”-- George Carlin
“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”-- Red Haircrow
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us. – Julian of Norwich
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.”-- Author Unknown
Well the power’s out, time to break out my felling axe and establish dominance in my cul-de-sac
— Al Dente
(This is for a friend living in benighted southern California, where power blackouts are happening and the fires are once again raging. He needs a laugh.)
“The only way to find the meaning and purpose of your life is to find it in a mystery . . . the mystery of Him . . . and to make that mystery the cause of everything you do . . . and the reason . . . for everything you are.” - Jonathan Cahn