“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

~Milton Berle

"Everytime someone tells a story well, the gospel is served.”

~ Eugene Peterson

seen at Rock City, near Chattanooga, TN

God be in my head and in my understanding:
God be in my eyes and in my looking:
God be in my mouth and in my speaking:
God be in my heart and in my thinking:
God be at mine end and at my departing. (Sarum Primer)

Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ within me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left…
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
(St. Patrick, ca. 377)

"Every happening, great or small, is a parable by which God speaks to us. The art of life is to get the message."

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

"But we cannot learn to trust God by our interpretations of past experiences. More often than not we were looking out for our interests, and not God's; thus we misinterpret or misunderstand his actions toward us. There are many reasons why God may not have dealt with a specific situation as we thought he should, but the Bible makes it clear that he never responds to us with less than absolute love and faithfulness. That's his nature, and he can never be untrue to it. Learning dependence doesn't begin in our experience, but in his character."

~ Wayne Jacobsen
The Naked Church

"A spiritual person is not one who can memorize theological facts, conduct his life with flawless ethics, or busy himself with church programs. A spiritual person is one who has learned how to walk in the Spirit, following his voice and being a vessel of God's character and power.

~ Wayne Jacobsen

The Naked Church

What I fear, I create.

~ unknown

"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy."

~ Mark Twain

Look in the rearview mirror long enough and you’ll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you’ve been—even when it seemed you’d taken a wrong turn.”

~ Mark Batterson

“I was seized by the power of a great affection!”

~ Brennan Manning
The Ragamuffin Gospel

“A rut is grave with both ends kicked out”

~ Unknown

eragon

Toward the end of this movie, Eragon's dragon, Sapphira is wounded in battle with an evil dragon. Eragon thinks she is dying, and he says...

Eragon: "Whatever life I have left in me, take it!"

Sapphira: "Eragon, not even you have a heart strong enough for both of us."

October Road

My grandmother always used to say, "It is the fool who fails to return to the place of his last happiness."

"Trust is grown primarily through repair of its violation."

~ Dan B. Allender & Tremper Longman III

Intimate Mystery

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

~ Unknown

"Humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself, but that you think of yourself less."

~ Max Lucado
Facing Your Giants

“Everybody has to change or they expire. Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons. I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure out things out, not to read the same page recurrently."

~ Donald Miller
Through the Painted Desert

"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