Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction,
He will be with them in it. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Here’s freedom to him that wad read,
Here’s freedom to him that wad write,
there’s nan ever fear’d the truth should be heard
But they wham the truth wad indite.
~ Robert Burns
Don’t think of it as getting hot flashes.
Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.
unknown
“I must do something” will always solve more problems than “Something must be done.”
- Unknown
“The only thing worse than intelligence on ice is ignorance on fire.” – Horace Hilton
“We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.”
- John Taylor Gatto
Each morning see some task begin,
each evening sees it close;
something attempted,
something done,
has earned a night’s repose.
Longfellow (The Village Blacksmith)
If you can’t move the mountain, move a few stones. ~ unknown
“It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
– Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832),
“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”-Howard Aiken
I’m getting into swing dancing. Not on purpose. Some parts of my body are just prone to swinging. ~ unknown
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do! — Nathan Hale
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
- Phillips Brooks
“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” Leo Rosten
Life is one long obstacle course and I am often the chief obstacle. ~ unknown
You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
~John Mason
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
- Eddie Rickenbacker
“Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.”
Richard Zera.
Putting uniforms and badges on criminals doesn’t make them good. — Amos Vaden
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
– Epictetus (AD 55?-135?)
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me.” -Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964
If man will only realize that it is unmanly to obey laws that are unjust, no man’s tyranny will enslave him. — Mahatma Gandhi
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson
“We who have been seared in the flames of withering injustice, I will not be satisfied until JUSTICE rolls down like waters, and RIGHTEOUSNESS like a mighty river.” ~MLK
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everything you face can be changed, but everything
you change must first be faced. ~unknown
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. — William Cobbett
Patriots are not revolutionaries trying to overthrow government. Patriots are counter-revolutionaries trying to prevent government from overthrowing the U.S. Constitution. –Anonymous
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”Dorothy Bernard
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart” Martin Luther
“Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan”
John Bunyan
“Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” Ambrose Bierce
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil. E.M. Bounds
There is a difference between believing that prayer is important and believing it is essential. ‘Essential’ means there are things that will not happen without prayer. Dee Duke
Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively. Dr. Will Bruce
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this – always obey such an impulse. –Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?….Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray. –Oswald Chambers
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed. –Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.
–Corrie Ten Boom
If you can’t pray a door open, don’t pry it open.– Lyell Rader
If God will do whatever He wishes, regardless of whether we pray or not, then we do not need to pray at all, and the Lord’s instructions on praying for the Kingdom and the Will are superfluous. But the truth is that God waits for a Remnant to rise up and to pray in agreement with His Purpose before He does anything – He will do nothing apart from the Church. Apart from HIM, we CAN do nothing; apart from US, He WILL do nothing
–Chip Brogden
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer. –John R. Mott
Why is it so important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It’s important because it’s the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you “my beloved daughter,” “my beloved son,” “my beloved child.” To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being. –Henri Nouwen
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. –Leonard Ravenhill
Rich is the person who has a praying friend. –Janice Hughes
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.– Oswald Chambers
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers. –J. Sidlow Baxter
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell God your troubles, that God may comfort you; tell God your joys, that God may sober them; tell God your longings, that God may purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God may help you conquer them; talk to God of your temptations, that God may shield you from them: show God the wounds of your heart, that God may heal them. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. Talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration say just what you think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God. –Francois Fenelon
God does not stand afar off as I struggle to speak. He cares enough to listen with more than casual attention. He translates my scrubby words and hears what is truly inside. He hears my sighs and uncertain gropings as fine prose. –Timothy Jones
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work. –Oswald Chambers
Religion is for those
who wish to avoid Hell.
God’s Grace is for
those of us who have been there.-unknown
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Thomas Jefferson
“State education has done a great deal to convince us that children who are perceived as square pegs are being helped if they are treated in such a way that they will eventually fit into round holes.” ~ Jan Fortune-Wood
“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.” Daisaku Ikeda (Japanese peace activist and buddhist leader of Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International, b.1928)
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.-Maimonides
An education isn’t how much you’ve committed to memory, or even how much you know.
It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t know.
William Feather
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody’s hand and squeeze it, or hug ‘em, while there’s still time. — Unknown
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”-Jeseph Joubert
Faith goes up the stairs that love has made and looks out the window which hope has opened. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” John Morley
“Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.”-Anon
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. — Unknown
“You can fall down by yourself but you need a friend’s hand to get up.”-Yiddish Proverb
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
Patrick Henry
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
– Victor Hugo (1802-85)
“Most new, and even veteran, homeschoolers, having chosen the right thing to do, choose the wrong way to do it. Having chosen to bring their children home, they turn right back around and model their home schooling after the institutional classroom they have just rejected. They simply accept the default model of learning that they grew up with – classrooms, teachers, and textbooks. But a home is not a school! *Men* designed schools, but *God* designed the home. The home is the *only* institution provided by God for the training of children. It is futile to try to impose an institution of man upon an institution of God. It won’t work!”
Clay Clarkson
” I may not be who I want to be
And I may not be who I am going to be
But thank God I am not who I was.”
— Unknown
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”– Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612-72)
“Illegitimis non carborundum.” Gen. Joseph Stilwell
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
– Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
“The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan.
“Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.”
–Elbert Hubbard
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
“Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.” Will Rogers. Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. ~ Cadet Maxim ~
Skepticism has not founded empires, established principles, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers of history have always been men of faith. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
To commit our children to the care of irreligious people is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves. — Timothy Dwight, President of Yale, 1795-1817
Teach thy tongue to say “I do not know,” and thou shalt progress. — Maimonides
“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain.”
– Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-69)
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren
True learning- learning that is permanent and useful, that leads to intelligent action
and further learning- can arise only out of the experience, interests and concerns of the learner.~John Holt
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.”– Phyllis Bottome
Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get. William Feather
We have a secret in our culture and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. ~Laura Stavoe Harm
