Perceptions #200225

Miscellaneous Thoughts

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

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 though 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

"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.

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

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly."
-- Unknown

"Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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