"I'll tell you a secret: When your number comes up, you're going to go. Well, every morning I get up, I change my number."

~ Edward Chun

Pearl Harbor survivor

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

~ Rob Bell

Velvet Elvis

'Tis God who lifts our comforts high,
Or sinks them in the grave:
He gives, and blessed be His name,
He takes but what He gave.

~ by Issac Watts

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

~ Arthur Miller

We can't treat every difference as being sin.

~ Frank Turk

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.

~Albert Einstein

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.

~ unknown

Glossary for Siblings

Home: a place where you can say what you think, but no one listens.
Argument: when two people are trying to get in the last word first.
Cooperation: doing what I tell you and doing it quickly.
Peace: the period of confusion and unrests between two wars.
Diplomacy: the art of letting someone else get your way.

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

~Ben Franklin

"If the God who revealed life to us, and whose only desire is to bring us to life, loved us so much that he wanted to experience with us total absurdity of death, then-yes, then there must be hope; then there must be something more than death; there must be a promise that is not fulfilled in our short existence in this world; then leaving behind the ones you love, the flowers and the trees, the mountains and the oceans, the beauty of art and music, and all the exuberant gifts of life cannot be just the destruction and cruel end of all things; then indeed we have to wait for the third day."

~ Henri Nouwen - A Letter of Consolation

Seen at Moe's Southwestern Grill in Hiram, GA:

"A burrito is like life - a well-hidden mess."

"If you don't think it's fun to say 'guacamole,' you're probably not pronouncing it right."

"A soft taco is like a hard taco, but more emotional."

"It is the Soldier, not the Reporter who has given us the freedom of press. It is the Soldier, not the Poet who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the Soldier, not the Campus Organizer who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the Soldier who salutes the Flag, who serves beneath the Flag, and whose coffin is draped by the Flag, who allows the Protester to burn the Flag."

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.

~ Unknown

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

“You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him not because you have studied him – you will love him because you have touched him.”

~ Brennan Manning in Lion & Lamb

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Most people plot and plan themselves into mediocrity, while now and again somebody forgets himself into greatness.

~ E. Stanley Jones

from Les Miserables:
"If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!"

When all is said, and truly said, concerning the divisions of Christendom, there remains, by the grace of God, an enormous common ground.

~ C.S. Lewis

Never explain...your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Hosea 6:6 (MSG)

I'm after love that lasts, not more religion.
I want you to know GOD, not go to more prayer meetings.

Your life is in the hands of any fool who can make you lose your temper.