and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice,
and justice at its best is power correcting
everything that stands against love."
everything that stands against love."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully.
Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society,
but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day."
Evelyn Underhill
“Every happening, great and small,
“Every happening, great and small,
is a parable whereby God speaks to us,
and the art of life is to get the message.”
Malcolm Muggeridge
"But this is what the past is for!
"But this is what the past is for!
Every experience God gives us,
every person He puts in our lives
is the perfect perparation for the future only He can see."
Corrie ten Boom: Preface of The Hiding Place
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
Jim Elliot, martyred missionary
"But we'll be careful to be peacemakers and not peacekeepers.
Peacekeepers are likely to overlook the causes of pain and suffering,
to avoid dealing with it in order to maintain some kind of equilibrium
regardless of what it may be based on.
Peacekeepers prefer the status quo
and are apt to tell the hungry to quiet down
lest they disturb the sleep of the overfed."
Bishop William Frey in The Dance of Hope
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact,
you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements;
lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change.
It will not be broken;
it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
C. S. Lewis
"It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey,
"Of
all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised
for
the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It
would be better to live under robber barons
than
under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The
robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep,
his
cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but
those who torment us for our own good
will
torment us without end for they do so
with
the approval of their own conscience.
They
may be more likely to go to Heaven
yet
at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.
This
very kindness stings with intolerable insult.
To
be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states
which
we may not regard as disease
is to be put on a level of
those
who have not yet reached the age of reason
or
those who never will; to
be classed with infants,
imbeciles, and domestic animals."
~
C. S. Lewis
but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on divine truth,
that will prove the choicest, strongest Christian.
Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
"The grace of God does not rewrite history -- what's done is done.
But that grace is able to begin to heal the wounds of our history
and to offer us a foretaste of the promised future shalom,
where all will be reconciled."
Bishop William Frey in The Dance of Hope
"I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
William Shakespeare, Richard III
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
William Shakespeare, Richard III
Three by G.K. Chesterton...
"There is a proverb, 'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it,' which is a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again."
"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”
And finally, I couldn't resist this sage advice from a bumper sticker...
"Wag more. Bark less."
"Wag more. Bark less."
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Virginia Knowles