It’s Friday. That means I’m at the rehearsal dinner tonight and the wedding is tomorrow! But for all of you in bloggityville, it’s the Oh Amanda A Few Of My Favorite Things Week Long Meme. (*snort*)
If you missed Part 1. Well, you are really missing out. Really.
Let’s do a quick one today. This is one of my favorite favoritest things.
QUOTES.
Do you have a fave? I have so many. Here’s a few serious ones…
If anyone proved to me that Christ was outside the truth…then I would prefer to remain with Christ than with the truth. –Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again,” and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun, and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.”–G K Chesteron
And a few that make me laugh…
Get involved! The world is run by those who show up! –Bumper Sticker
If friends were flowers, I’d pick you! –that one is for my sisterchicks! lol!
And probably my very favorite ever…
God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. –CS Lewis
So, what’s your favorite quote?
My 2 favorite serious quotes:
“Perhaps the greatest barrier to Christ has been Christians who pronounce Jesus so loudly with their lips and deny him so loudly with their lives.”
– Shane Claiborne
“Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.”
– C.T. Studd
And I have too many funny quotes to list. Let’s see …. “If I’m not back in fave minustes … wait longer!” — Ace Ventura. My husband and I both have a habit of quoting movies all the time …
🙂
My favorite quote is from one of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” Books:
“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
(I have that hanging on a magnet at my desk at work.)
My other favorite quote is from Roosevelt:
“It is not the critic who counts. It’s not the man who points out where the grown man stumbles, or how the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who actually is in the arena, who strives violently, who errs and comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who if he wins knows the triumph of high achievement; but who if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
I’m going to mess it up, I think, but the part I like goes,
“…resolved that I should so live as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.” Jonathan Edwards (theologian, not triple jumper, though I love him too!)
“Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of those sayings reminds me of a work truck I saw this week. It was for a plumber or electrician, and their company’s motto on the side of the truck was, I kid you not, “We show up.”
“To despair is to turn your back on God” Marilla Cuthbert – Anne of Green Gables
I just LOVE that quote, because it’s true. If I give into despair then I am abandoning hope and faith in God. Marilla always did have a way of hitting the nail on the head! 🙂
“Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies” ~Aristotle
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