"Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting."

-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Encouragement Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Simple Quotes

“An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.”
“I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day,”
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer â€˜Tomorrow,â€™ his name is today.”

Source : "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.
“It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.”

Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.152, University of Virginia Press
“Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer.”
“It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard.”
“They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.”

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