Favorite Quotes/Bible Verses

"'May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done" When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.~Jimi Hendrix Do not pray for easier lives. Pray to be stronger men. -John F. Kennedy "To love at all is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis "I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent." -Anon The Lord will cause us to stand in our lot, and our place is appointed by His infinite wisdom. A wiser mind than our own arranges our destiny, The ordaining of all things is with God, and we are glad to have it so; we choose that God should choose for us. If we might have our own way we would wish to let all things go in God's way. Being conscious of our own folly, we would not desire to rule our own destinies. We feel safer and more at ease when the Lord steers our vessel than we could possibly be if we could direct it according to our own judgment. Joyfully we leave the painful present and the unknown future with our Father, our Savior, our Comforter. -Charles Spurgeon 2 Corthinians 12: 8-10:Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color—nothing—no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love. - Sandra Bullock you must be the change you wish to see in this world- gandhi success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm- winston churchill i learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. the brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. -nelson mandela If I were to say God, why me about all the bad things, then I should say God, why me? about all of the good things that have happened in my life-Arthur Ashe "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, dedicated citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind-Gandhi Give the world the best you have and it will never be good enough. Give the best you have anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never really between you and them anyway.-Mother Theresa What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are. -St. Augustine To love another person is to see the face of God-Victor Hugo I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Mohandas Gandhi We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathon Swift Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. -Bob Marley I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.- Marilyn Monroe You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchilll Sometimes God calms the storm so his child doesn't rage. Sometimes God calms his child and lets the storm rage. ♥ God grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr Despite everything I still believe people are good at heart-Anne Frank Success is not final, failure is not final, it is the courage to continue that counts-Winston Churchill I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me-Philippians 4:13 Even a broken watch is right twice a day-my dad As long as there is one man or woman who should be free, as long as slums and ghettos exist, as long as any person goes to bed hungry at night, as long as the color of a man's skin is his prison, there must be a divine discontent. We Christians have no right to be content until the principles of Christ are applied to all men and women. -Billy Graham And we know that in all things God works together for the good of those that love Him, to those that have been called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 "Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I dunno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me-- no, don't sue me. That is the opposite of the point I'm trying to make." -Michael Scott “I have told you many things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” -John 16:33 “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” - Psalm 37:4 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” -Proverbs 31:8-9