Well, you know, life is hard, but it’s harder when you’re stupid. - Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA
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Over the coming weeks and months of locked down countries and social distancing what do you think life will be like on earth? Ozone layers will heal. Biodiversity and natural wild life will be restored. Oceans will not have billions of tonnes of plastic. Families will see each other for the first time under one roof and have to find ways to mend relationships and possibly try to live in harmony! Oh! What a gift!
Love only Love that is the One God!
~~Bodhi
“For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.” -Brennan Manning-
“The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.” -Brennan Manning-
“The one thing that the Bible emphasizes more than us loving God and people is that God loves us. He loves us first and most. God isn’t in heaven plucking a daisy saying, “I love you” when you obey and “I love you not” when you sin.” -Brian Mavis-
“Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. It is an act of faith in the God of grace.” -Brennan Manning-
“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.”-- Kahlil Gibran
“The good news of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!” -Brennan Manning-
“Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.”― Germany Kent
“Any day above ground is a good day.”― Robert Gerus
O God, if I worship you in fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I worship you in hope of paradise, shut me out from paradise. But if I worship you for your own sake, do not withhold from me your everlasting beauty. —Rábi‘a (717–801), Islamic mystic and poet
“You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“One method resurrects the pain, turmoil, and betrayal without purifying me of neither the original deposit nor the result – while God takes all of me and crucifies it, and then raises me to new life. The good, the bad and the ugly are gone, and in their place sit the life of God, at rest because the work is finished in me.” -Little Elmer-
“The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the …moment.” -Eugene H. Peterson
“Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.”-- Doug Larson
“My identity is not defined by the geographical location of my birth, neither by my race. It is defined by the will of God for my life.” - Khuliso Mamathoni-
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“The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live. It is not primarily a religion, not even the best religion, but God Himself explaining in terms that men can readily grasp how life is meant to be lived.” -J.B. Phillips-
“There is…no easy answer to the evil and suffering problem and no easy road to its solution. But Christ tackled the matter radically and realistically by winning the allegiance of a few men and women to a new way of living…They were to be the spearhead of good against evil.” - J.B. Phillips-
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that’s fear. - Dan Brown
The single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on the planet is the virus. - Joshua Lederberg
Humanity is just a virus with shoes. - Bill Hicks
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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’
‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. 'They won’t let Me in either. -Brennan Manning-
All turbulence is on the periphery. Deep inside there is pristine silence. Untrained mind by default runs on autopilot mode. Meditation is your effort to detach from past and future and move from periphery to the Centre to feel a sense of peace that is never available in the externalities of periphery. How can fear and anxiety catch you if you are in the centre within? If you want to be truly happy then move to your Home within. That is your true Abode of Peace.
~Bodhi
“The worst part of online shopping is having to get up and get your credit card from your purse.”- Author Unknown
“O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.” -Eugene H. Peterson-
One measure of success is how far you’ve gotten, and the other is how far you’ve come.
The second is the better measure.
On the occasions when you feel you haven’t gotten very far in life, tell yourself, “But look where you started from, and what you had to work with, and the obstacles you had to overcome.”
MavPhil
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