Saturday, April 30, 2005
Quotes!
What comes into our minds when we think of God is the most important thin about us -A.W. Tozer
Without your wounds, where would your power be? -Thorton Wilder
Would that I had served my God the way I have watched my waistline -Cardinal Wolsey
How we view oursleve at any given moment may have very little to do with who we really are. -Gerald May
Often break downs lead to break throughs -Mary Michael O'Shaughnessy
...Called by God to be self again, if your want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are. - Frederick Buechner
If you are prejudiced, you will see that person from the eye of that prejudice. In other words, you will cease to see this person as a person. -Anthony DeMello
(The rest by Brennan Manning)
Where do we think we are goiing if we draw back from God?
Does she experience God's love when everything feel broken or only when things are good - only when she's good?
...we can hardly bring ourselves to ask for the mercy we need. Not because we hate God and not because God hates us, but because we hate ourselves.
Starting point: the spiritual life begins with accepting God's wholehearted love for our wounded, broken, curly, frightened, sorry selves
FOr once and forever, Relax! Of all the places, you are safe with me.
The poser [will]...do whatever it takes to maintain the appearence that we are not out of control, that our lives are not unmanagable, that we are not in need of a Rescuer.
The poser in my trembles at the thought of disappointing people.
We hope everyone will admire us and no one will truly know us.
Vanity hijacks my attention from the God who loves me and lives in me.
For the poser, its not how you win or lose, its how you look playing the game.
The poser is incapable of true intimacy in any reltionship.
Accepting the reality of my brokenness means accpeting my authentic self.
The poser imitates humble openness so you believe you're into his secret self when he actually hasing disclosed anything about his true self.
The highest, most demanding call in our lives is becoming like Jesus.
Compassion leads to forgiveness when we understand where our enemy cries.
What I don't know is always more signficant than what I know.
What seems most obvious is sledom what's really true.
God knows what I'm made of!...my life is about finding out what God is made of.
If I'm not honest with myself, why in the world would i be honest with you?
The one who dies with the most toys, still dies.
I dread those who can take away what I depend on.
That is holy desire- the longing that won't go away.
Following Jesus may mean standing alone when the only alternative is selling out our integrity.
What we do in Christ may express the ultimate truth of who we are in Christ more that anything else.
I've let peer pressure set the boundaries of my faith
Servanthoot is not an emotion or mood of feeling, it's a decision to live like Jesus even when we don't feel like it.
Be prepared. You're up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over but the shouting yo'll still be on your feet. -Paul (bible)
Without your wounds, where would your power be? -Thorton Wilder
Would that I had served my God the way I have watched my waistline -Cardinal Wolsey
How we view oursleve at any given moment may have very little to do with who we really are. -Gerald May
Often break downs lead to break throughs -Mary Michael O'Shaughnessy
...Called by God to be self again, if your want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are. - Frederick Buechner
If you are prejudiced, you will see that person from the eye of that prejudice. In other words, you will cease to see this person as a person. -Anthony DeMello
(The rest by Brennan Manning)
Where do we think we are goiing if we draw back from God?
Does she experience God's love when everything feel broken or only when things are good - only when she's good?
...we can hardly bring ourselves to ask for the mercy we need. Not because we hate God and not because God hates us, but because we hate ourselves.
Starting point: the spiritual life begins with accepting God's wholehearted love for our wounded, broken, curly, frightened, sorry selves
FOr once and forever, Relax! Of all the places, you are safe with me.
The poser [will]...do whatever it takes to maintain the appearence that we are not out of control, that our lives are not unmanagable, that we are not in need of a Rescuer.
The poser in my trembles at the thought of disappointing people.
We hope everyone will admire us and no one will truly know us.
Vanity hijacks my attention from the God who loves me and lives in me.
For the poser, its not how you win or lose, its how you look playing the game.
The poser is incapable of true intimacy in any reltionship.
Accepting the reality of my brokenness means accpeting my authentic self.
The poser imitates humble openness so you believe you're into his secret self when he actually hasing disclosed anything about his true self.
The highest, most demanding call in our lives is becoming like Jesus.
Compassion leads to forgiveness when we understand where our enemy cries.
What I don't know is always more signficant than what I know.
What seems most obvious is sledom what's really true.
God knows what I'm made of!...my life is about finding out what God is made of.
If I'm not honest with myself, why in the world would i be honest with you?
The one who dies with the most toys, still dies.
I dread those who can take away what I depend on.
That is holy desire- the longing that won't go away.
Following Jesus may mean standing alone when the only alternative is selling out our integrity.
What we do in Christ may express the ultimate truth of who we are in Christ more that anything else.
I've let peer pressure set the boundaries of my faith
Servanthoot is not an emotion or mood of feeling, it's a decision to live like Jesus even when we don't feel like it.
Be prepared. You're up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over but the shouting yo'll still be on your feet. -Paul (bible)
