Tags: quotation

• quoteable quote: community

  Here’s a cup of community,….. from Henri Nouwen. “Community is like a large mosaic. Each little piece seems so insignificant. One piece is bright red, another cold blue or dull green, another warm purple, another sharp yellow, another shining gold. Some look precious, others ordinary. Some look valuable, others worthless. Some look gaudy, others delicate. As individuals stones, we can do little with them except compare them and judge their beauty and value. When, however, all these little stones are [...]

• what a vision: what a prayer….?

  Beautiful prayer from Richard Rohr: ” O Loving God, we thank you for bringing us the rivers and streams of this world. May the rivers we know be an image of the stream that you want to flow within each one of us. Teach us now, take away all fear, dare to let us believe that we could really be a small part of a reconstructed society, that we could build again. Take away our own cynicism. Take away our [...]

• just, don’t give up!

  Quoteable quote indeed…. With the drawing of this love and the voice of this calling we shall not cease from exploration… T.S. Eliot

• quoteable quote:- alive

  “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman – American philosopher and theologian

• help me

  ” Lord, help me to glorify you. I am poor; help me to glorify you by contentment. I am sick; help me to give you honour by patience. I have talents; help me to exalt you by spending them for you. I have a heart to feel, Lord; let that heart feel no love but yours, and glow with no flame but affection for you.  I have a head to think, Lord; help me to think of you and for [...]

• quoteable quote:- which lands?

  The clear message wins over the cool one every day. Zach Hubert

• amidst seasonal pressure!

  Some of you know what it is to experience Christmas as a very stressful holiday! Perhaps the stress comes from those who try to create just the perfect Christmas experience. Or it may come from anticipating Christmas dinner as others face losses, absence or aloneness….. Craig Barnes, in his book The Pastor as Minor Poet, writes insightfully about how the Bible reveals God as the achiever and ourselves as the receivers. Far too often we live with much stress because [...]

• more than maybe….
• i heard this

  and I liked it….. I was challenged too and long to live it out….. “Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you – to pray more, trust more, be more creative.”

• life, conflict & Miller

  Donald Miller evokes different responses from different people, but whatever your view this quote is worth chewing on: “A story can’t be meaningful without conflict. Conflict comes when you don’t get what you want. Adam faced conflict. Adam experienced loneliness, an emotion Adam didn’t want to experience. But the only way a character becomes a better person is by going through conflict. (Picture Scrooge.) Pain changes things. The conflict lends value to the thing the person wants to attain. So [...]