Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. ~Rick Warren
Heaven
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
C.S. Lewis on Love
"Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him." —C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
Courage
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."-Ambrose Redmoon
Agape
"Agape is the love that overflows and gives of its fullness, not the hunger that cries out from the depths of its own emptiness. Human love, by its nature, can never be pure agape. Because we are in ourselves contingent and insufficient, our love necessarily contains an element of eros, or passion, springing from our... Continue Reading →
Poverty
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”~Mother Teresa
Bono on Music
“The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.”~Bono
Bailout
"It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases."- Bono
Happy
Let us be determined to be happy;make the most of blessings that come to us;look on the bright side of everything.Cheerfulness is not always spontaneous,but bears cultivation.One who can carry a smiling face through a world where there are so many troubled hearts may unconsciously be a public benefactor;for “the merry heart doeth good like... Continue Reading →
Wise Words
"You can only be loved to the extent that you are known."Great quote.I stole it from Skip who stole it from someone else.
These Words of Mine 