Perceptions #200203

"Miscellaneous Thoughts"

"It is not in doing what you like, but liking what you do that is the secret of happiness." - James Barrie.

"Getting started is often the hardest part of doing a job. People need all their energy just for the starting. We're like cars - only a small percentage of a battery's power is necessary to run a car, but all its power may be necessary to start it."

"If they gave rewards for finding faults, some people would get rich quick."

I pray that you will not let bitterness and poison creep into your soul, but that you will turn in faith and trust to God even if we cannot understand it. It is better to face something like this with God than without Him" - Billy Graham, April 25, 1995, at the memorial service for the victims of the Oklahoma bombing victims.

"Though the fig tree does not bud and thought there are no grapes on the vines; Though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food. Though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in God my Savior." Habakkuk 3:17

"We found that the best single predictor we had as to how aggressive a young person would be at age 19 was the violence of the television programs that he preferred when he was eight years old." Leonard Eron, Psychologist. May 28, 2000.

"A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking... If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought the most of the next." - C.S. Lewis.

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake

"Our patience will achieve more than our force". - Edmund Burke.

"Man seeks not so much God as the miraculous." The Grand Inquisitor (Ivan's story), in The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevski.

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