THANKS Anoasis and anemail. liked both your last quotes.

As you can tell I am a fan of C S Lewis.

The Four Loves - Charity.

Even if it were granted that insurances against heartbreak were our highest wisdom, does God Himself offer them? Apparently not. Christ comes at last to say "Why hast thou forsaken me?"

"The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life."

- James L. Christensen

BayAreaGal,

Thanks for sharing that great quote.

"When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books."

- Mother Teresa

"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less....Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either."

--CS Lewis

1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I am not ashamed of the gospel,
because it is the power of God
for the salvation of everyone who believes....

Romans 1.16

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) 35th US President
1960

Delivered 11 June 1963:
I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy

The following quote by King Henry VIII was made in 1545 in his a speech to Parliament in the Act for the Advancement of True Religion when he restricted the reading of Bible to noblemen and women:

"...although you be permitted to read Holy Scripture and to have the Word of God in your mother-tongue, you must understand that it is licensed you so to do only to inform your own conscience and to instruct your children and family...I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same."

"'Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years,
one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals."
Dr. Paul Cameron, a "scientist" often quoted by religious right groups (see below),
speaking at the 1985 Conservative Political Action Conference

Apparently his speech inspired someone??? Ok - maybe the wrong Christian choice?

"many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness." - Pat Robertson on TV (I've seen the actual footage) - http://www.pfaw.org/issues/right/rtvw.antigay.shtml

Is everyone feeling inspired? I am! ANSWER MY QUESTIONS?

you know the ones? ENDA!

Sorry no Ghost emoticon - to show I'm haunting you. Also, apologise, I was busy on Holloween - I'm a little late in the annual haunting.


PEACE

I love quotes.... and these are some of my favs...

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Elizabeth Bibesco

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar

The best exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting people up. – Ernest Blevings


If one man calls you a horse, ignore him;
If two men call you a horse, consider it;
If three men call you a horse, buy a saddle.
– Persian proverb

The greatest lesson in life it to know that even fools are right sometimes. – Winston Churchill

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. – John Wesley

Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. – Charles F. Banning

"There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life." - Mother Teresa

"Hope is a waking dream."
and also...
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
~ Augustine 354-430 a.d.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists. - Francis Bacon

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.- Will Rogers

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."--Anita Rod****


I love quotes.....
Yokoke

Yokoke - I really enjoyed your choices. Very nice!

Why Thank You Red and and a for ya!

Isaiah 26:4
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Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.”
--Laurence J. Peter