Christmas Quote

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. - - Alexander Smith

Christmas Quote

Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.

- Bart Simpson ... think about it.

Let Us Keep Christmas

Whatever else be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day, remembering
It's poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.

~Grace Noll Crowell

Food for Thought

We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgements as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means. -Marilynne Robinson (author)

A personal comment - I am perplexed by how many people calling themselves Christians are rendering judgement on those who favor Obama in this election. They seem to feel they have some moral superiority by voting solely on the issue of abortion and, therefore, promoting the sixth commandment often while enthusiastically breaking the ninth. I have always been taught that all sin is an equal abomination to God. You might want to test the emails you send or read, the information you post and the campaign advertisements you hear through that filter.

This just in - I just heard a news report that people are stealing political signs right out of other peoples yards. The report said a man described as "around 70" was seen pulling up Obama yard signs and throwing them in the back of his truck! Regardless of whose sign it is, we clearly also need to review commandment eight.

Sermon in a Sentence

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” -Dwight Eisenhower

Quote of the Day

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -Charles M. Schulz

Sermon in a Sentence

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. -Gandhi

Sermon in a Sentence

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." - Albert Einstein

CrAzY "QuOtEs"

A friend was just sharing with me from a site he found that had crazy made up quotes & cliches. For some reason this seemed like a challenge to make up a few of my own. {My apologies in advance. I just couldn't help myself.} Here goes:

• Where there's a whale, there's a way! - Jonah
• Have gum, will travel. - Airline passenger
• Beauty is in the eye of the brush holder. - Monet
• Bring on the pain. - Marquis De Sade
• The gas is always greener on the ethanol side. - Earl Coryell, original developer of "corn alcohol gasoline".
• I've got more guitars than you can shake a pick at. - Eric Clapton
• Nothing nude under the sun. - sign on a beach
• The old gray hare just ain't what he used to be. - Bugs Bunny
• Out with the old, in with the few. - G.R. Wagoner, Jr. CEO-General Motors

13 Quotes

I really enjoy a well turned phrase (righteous indignation, detrimental aversion to reflection, an arrogant sense of entitlement).

I also enjoy a well stated thought, opinion, or philosophy. Following are thirteen of my favorite quotes -in no particular order. They are from a wide range of contributors.

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• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammad Ali
• What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. -Bodie Thoene
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain
• Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. –Elvis Presley
• Freedom...is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self. - Iris Murdoch
• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
• If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. - Sir James M. Barrie
• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. -E.F. Schumacher
• Sin would have fewer takers if its consequences occurred immediately. -C.H. Spurgeon
• Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. - Max Frisch
• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa
• The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life. - Billy Graham