"when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus"
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"when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus"
"... But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace."
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
"If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself."
"From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"
"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"
"According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)"
"Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities."
"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
"When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."
"She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind."
"Some of you say, Joy is greater than sorrow, and others say, Nay, sorrow is the greater. But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
"I have drunken deep of joy,And I will taste no other wine tonight."
"Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends."
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory."
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
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