Sunday, March 25, 2012
Kristen Williams
It's amazing what can happen when you willingly take a back seat and let the Holy Spirit work in you and through you!!
Kristen Williams
Never change for anyone. Don't even try to change for yourself. The only reason you should ever have for changing yourself is because of God.
The ONLY irreplaceable thing in my life is my relationship with my God.
"It is better to have love and lost, than to never have loved at all."
As true as that is, I know it doesn't have to be that way...
"And this too shall pass... Trust Me." -God
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Walker standing on the wing of a plane!
[Walker, Texas Ranger: "Rodeo"]
Dear rain, please finish now and not during recess. On behalf of all Teachers and Subs-Thanks!
Perfection is impossible yet it's always expected...
Just because I can laugh and smile doesn't mean I'm okay.
Just because I'm not okay doesn't mean I can't laugh and smile.
Clear skin isn't sexy skin... That comes from being confidant in yourself. And "ance-free" skin is NOT a requirement!
Don't misunderstand- I'm not stronger than anyone, I just have learned what it means and how to rely on God.
Sorry to the haters, but I'm not gonna live my life in fear. Of anything. I don't have to. I have faith that as long as I'm doing the right thing then my God will take care of anything that needs to be.
I am a daughter of God.
Come what may,
That will never change!
Some lessons are excruciating to learn. And that's never due to God, it's alway because we as humans can be stubborn and stupid.
Close but no cigar for you to light with a snap of your fingers. #StompOutTheDevil(heisonfire)
Just realized how much of an a-typical girlfriend i am. And how much of that is because of my God.
"Oh my God!" = "Oh my Jesus!" = "Oh my Savior!"
...just a thought...
You might think he doesn't have a halo and say that he's got one wing in the fire, but I'm playing for keeps, because he IS my angel. He is an amazing, selfless, and loving man; and he's taken, sorry girls.
My Creator designed and set every galaxy in the whole universe in motion!
The ONLY irreplaceable thing in my life is my relationship with my God.
"It is better to have love and lost, than to never have loved at all."
As true as that is, I know it doesn't have to be that way...
"And this too shall pass... Trust Me." -God
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Walker standing on the wing of a plane!
[Walker, Texas Ranger: "Rodeo"]
Dear rain, please finish now and not during recess. On behalf of all Teachers and Subs-Thanks!
Perfection is impossible yet it's always expected...
Just because I can laugh and smile doesn't mean I'm okay.
Just because I'm not okay doesn't mean I can't laugh and smile.
Clear skin isn't sexy skin... That comes from being confidant in yourself. And "ance-free" skin is NOT a requirement!
Don't misunderstand- I'm not stronger than anyone, I just have learned what it means and how to rely on God.
Sorry to the haters, but I'm not gonna live my life in fear. Of anything. I don't have to. I have faith that as long as I'm doing the right thing then my God will take care of anything that needs to be.
I am a daughter of God.
Come what may,
That will never change!
Some lessons are excruciating to learn. And that's never due to God, it's alway because we as humans can be stubborn and stupid.
Close but no cigar for you to light with a snap of your fingers. #StompOutTheDevil(heisonfire)
Just realized how much of an a-typical girlfriend i am. And how much of that is because of my God.
"Oh my God!" = "Oh my Jesus!" = "Oh my Savior!"
...just a thought...
You might think he doesn't have a halo and say that he's got one wing in the fire, but I'm playing for keeps, because he IS my angel. He is an amazing, selfless, and loving man; and he's taken, sorry girls.
My Creator designed and set every galaxy in the whole universe in motion!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Love
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. --Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
--Pixie Foudre
Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. --Terri Guillemets
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. --Author Unknown
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. --Kay Knudsen
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. --Author Unknown
It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. --Author Unknown
[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. --Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
--Pixie Foudre
Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. --Terri Guillemets
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. --Author Unknown
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. --Kay Knudsen
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. --Author Unknown
It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. --Author Unknown
[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. --Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
C. S. Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Understanding is a two-way street.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
What one has to do usually can be done.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Understanding is a two-way street.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
What one has to do usually can be done.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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