The Law typically does not correct my heart; it only condemns my heart.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ~ Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
What you tolerate today will dominate you tomorrow.
"Teachers and schools tend to mistake good behavior for good character. What they prize is docility, suggestibility; the child who will do what he is told; or even better, the child who will do what is wanted without even having to be told. They value most in children what children least value in themselves. Small wonder that their effort to build character is such a failure; they don't know it when they see it." - John Holt, How Children Fail
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ~ Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
What you tolerate today will dominate you tomorrow.
"Teachers and schools tend to mistake good behavior for good character. What they prize is docility, suggestibility; the child who will do what he is told; or even better, the child who will do what is wanted without even having to be told. They value most in children what children least value in themselves. Small wonder that their effort to build character is such a failure; they don't know it when they see it." - John Holt, How Children Fail
Do we not tend to do the same thing as parents?
“There is no perfect church, and if you find one, don’t join it because you’ll ruin it.”
"Balance is not a goal but rather a journey, a journey where we constantly learn and grow and make adjustments as we go along." ~ Yaakov Lieder
Reminders of what's important
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.” ~ Ferris Bueller
“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are." ~ Fred Rogers
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou
The weight and wrinkles are reminders of the wisdom you've gained through years of furrowing your brow in great contemplation of life's challenges.
We don't age because time passes, we age because we stop looking for the wonderful. - Karen Walrond
Things that make you go "Hmm..."
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back—in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.” ~Frederick Buechner
Change is constant. Right now, there are things going on in your life that have an uncertain future. You can choose to look at them with fearful anxiety or hopeful possibility. ~ Kim & Jason www.kimandjason.com
Apparently Jesus was misguided. He could have kept alot of friends by wilting and just playing politics. ~ This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti p.35
There should be t-shirts with this: "I understand that when someone is blindly subservient to institutional authority, their judgment is frequently compromised." ~ Bones (TV series)
Can't argue with them!
Life is hard. After all, it kills you. ~ Katharine Hepburn
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter P. Chrysler