Just a thought

2012-01-31T10:10:00.001-08:00

"We are all like the moon: we all have a dark side." ~ Mark Twain

2012-01-28T23:36:00.000-08:00

"Living with a belief in God, this is very far from living with God as your Beloved." ~ Ann Voskamp

2012-01-22T15:35:00.000-08:00

"The home you set your heart on determines how you will live your life... choose to live for eternity." ~ unknown to me

2011-12-29T21:44:00.000-08:00

"It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us." ~ Charles Dickens

2011-12-01T10:02:00.000-08:00

"In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires." ~Benjamin Franklin

2011-12-01T10:01:00.000-08:00

"...though the future may be hidden from us the past is not, and the one can teach us the other." ~Walter Wangerin Jr.

2011-11-19T22:35:00.001-08:00

"Our greatest triumphs are always our most solitary ones — and every great triumph begins with the decision to get out of bed." ~Ann Voskamp

2011-11-04T10:58:00.001-07:00

"God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is." ~ Ann Voskamp

2011-05-30T11:22:00.000-07:00

"It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ~Mother Teresa

2011-03-13T19:36:00.000-07:00

"O my soul, thou art capable of enjoying God, woe to thee if thou art contented with anything less than God." ~St. Francis de Sales

2011-02-24T16:38:00.000-08:00

If each saved one won one, and each won one won one, what hosts would be won when every won one had won one. ~unknown

Not sure if I got the punctuation right on that one, but try saying it 3X fast!

2011-02-18T12:31:00.001-08:00

"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still." ~unknown

2011-01-07T17:10:00.000-08:00

"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" ~Author Unknown

2011-01-06T13:41:00.001-08:00

"What a heart knows by heart is what a heart really knows." ~Dennis Lennon

2010-10-06T08:51:00.000-07:00

"It's not enough to say prayer; one must become prayer." ~Scott Cairns

2010-10-02T20:07:00.000-07:00

"Bitterness is drinking poison and hoping someone else dies." ~unknown

2010-10-02T20:05:00.000-07:00

"Don't confuse concerns with responsibilities." ~unknown

2010-09-21T11:50:00.000-07:00

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." ~ C. S. Lewis

2010-08-23T09:51:00.001-07:00

"The smallest package I ever saw was a man wrapped up wholly in himself." ~Billy Graham

2010-08-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

"God makes the tarnished His temples - and He doesn't move out." ~Ann Voskamp

2010-08-07T20:48:00.001-07:00

"We pay God honor and reverence, not for his sake (because he is of himself full of glory to which no creature can add anything), but for our own sake." ~ Thomas Aquinas

2010-07-27T08:47:00.000-07:00

"The Utopian who demands perfection or nothing will always get the nothing and will do a lot of damage in the process." ~Edith Schaeffer

2010-07-27T08:45:00.000-07:00

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety." ~George Muller.

2010-07-12T22:37:00.000-07:00

"Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something." ~Andy Stanley

2010-07-09T12:26:00.001-07:00

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been difficult and left untried." ~G.K. Chesterton

2010-06-29T12:22:00.000-07:00

"I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings." ~William Sloan Coffin

2010-05-30T10:00:00.000-07:00

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." ~Mother Teresa

2010-05-15T09:47:00.000-07:00

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." ~Johannes A. Gaertner

2010-04-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

"An inch of surprise can lead to miles of gratefulness." ~David Steindl-Rast

2010-04-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

"I thought, Wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness." ~Ecclesiastes 2:13

2010-04-17T15:45:00.000-07:00

"The tongue is the tail of the heart. And a lashing tongue is the symptom of an anger riddled heart. It’s always the heart that whips the tongue hard and breaks the backs weak." ~Ann Voskamp

"Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift." ~Ephesians 4:29 (The Message)

2010-01-22T15:18:00.000-08:00

"We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others." ~Helen Keller

2010-01-09T12:42:00.000-08:00

"People may not remember what you said or did, but they always remember how you made them feel." ~author unknown

2009-12-24T13:14:00.000-08:00

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward." ~Spanish Proverb

2009-11-26T19:08:00.000-08:00

"It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart." ~unknown

2009-11-24T21:01:00.000-08:00

"The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." ~H.W. Westermayer

2009-11-11T12:00:00.001-08:00

"Celebrate life, begin anytime." ~unknown

2009-10-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

"Preach the Gospel always and when necessary, use words." ~unknown

2009-10-23T09:15:00.000-07:00

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~Albert Camus

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad." ~Edwin Teale

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn." ~Elizabeth Lawrence

2009-10-11T17:49:00.000-07:00

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return." ~ Mary Jean Iron

{Not long after I found this quote I lost both of my parents within a span of two years and discovered for myself what it is like to "bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world," the return of normal days.}

2009-09-18T09:59:00.001-07:00

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle." ~ Bob Hope

2009-09-18T09:58:00.001-07:00

"Old age comes at a bad time." ~ San Banducci

2009-09-18T09:43:00.000-07:00

"Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake." ~ unknown

2009-09-18T09:29:00.001-07:00

"Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative." ~ Maurice Chevalier

2009-09-18T09:27:00.000-07:00

"Looking fifty is great – if you’re sixty." ~ Joan Rivers

2009-09-18T09:26:00.001-07:00

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes." ~ Euripides

2009-09-18T09:25:00.001-07:00

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." ~ Father Larry Lorenzoni

2009-09-18T09:22:00.000-07:00

"Inside every older person is a younger person – wondering what the hell happened." ~ Cora Harvey Armstrong

2009-09-18T09:19:00.000-07:00

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age." ~ unknown

2009-09-11T18:47:00.001-07:00

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." ~Elmer Davis

2009-08-16T11:39:00.000-07:00

"Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss if you don't even try." ~unknown

2009-08-01T14:27:00.000-07:00

"I love any excuse to be lazy, summer is a good one." ~author unknown