The key to a good marriage is two good forgivers!

-Billy Graham

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

Author Unknown

I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter.

Christopher Morley

"...We need Christian people to work as healers: as healing judges and prison staff, as healing teachers and administrators, as healing shopkeepers and bankers, as healing musicians and artists, as healing writers and scientists, as healing diplomats and politicians. We need people who will hold on to Christ firmly with one hand and reach out the other, with wit and skill and cheerfulness, with compassion and sorrow and tenderness, to the places where our world is in pain. We need people who will use all their god-given skills, as Paul used his, to analyze where things have gone wrong, to come to the place of pain, and to hold over the wound the only medicine which will really heal, which is the love of Christ made incarnate once more, your smile and mine, your tears and mine, your patient analysis and mine, your frustration and mine, your joy and mine..."

N.T. Wright
For All God's Worth

Today’s quote is from Leonard Sweet in his book “The Gospel According to Starbucks.”

Church used to be a … meeting house, a sacred space where community gathered for governing, for mourning, for celebrating, for relationship building. But churches increasingly became not relational space but propositional place. Instead of going there to connect with God and with others in meaningful relationship, people started going to church to be convinced of transcendent truth, or, if they already numbered among the convinced, to have their beliefs and religious convictions confirmed from the pulpit.

The church lost credibility as a place for sacred relationship when it chose to specialize in formulating and advancing a better spiritual argument. The result is that people who came to the meeting house got connected with ideas and formulas more than they did with God and with other people.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will be be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? 

Martin Luther King Jr.  

“We cannot expect to be able to resolve any complex problems within the same state of consciousness that created them.”

Albert Einstein

Quote for the day:

You can’t be at peace with God until you are at peace with who you are. If you are still upset that God gave you this body or this life or this family or these circumstances, you will never be able to connect with God in a healthy, thriving, sustainable sort of way. You’ll be at odds with your maker. And if you can’t come to terms with who you are and the life you have been given, you’ll never be able to accept others and how they were made and the lives they have been given. And until you’re at peace with God and those around you, you will continue to struggle with your role on the planet, your part to play in the ongoing creation of the universe. You will continue to struggle and resist and fail to connect.

Rob Bell

Think about this one!

Earth’s crammed with Heaven,
and every common bush afire with God;
but only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

God will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.

Mother Teresa

The crowd does not recognize a leader until he is gone; then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

J. Oswald Sanders