here are some things that i found really awesome. i got them from an e-mail...and no. it wasn't one of those "if you don't send this to 59 friends you'll have a bad love life for 7 years" kindof a thing.
come on, just read it.
On Sunday He Is God
There are very few who in their hearts who do not believe in God, but what they will not do is give Him exclusive right of way. ... They are not ready to promise full allegiance to God alone. Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God;on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts. I want people to place their faith in Jesus and motivate them to live more obediently. D.L. Moody
He Is the Son of God
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing wemust not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is,the Son of God: or else a mad man or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Take up Your Cross
This is a cheerful world as I see it from my garden under the shadows of my vines. But If I were to ascend some high mountain and look over the widelands, you know very well what I would see: brigands on the highways,pirates on the sea, armies fighting, cities burning; in the amphitheaters men murdered to please the applauding crowds; selfishness and cruelty andmisery and despair under all roofs. It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are the Christians--and I am one of them.
Cyprian, a third-century martyr.
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
The character Bilbo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings,1956.
well. that's enough for now. have a good day. you should read Job chapter 9 and tell me what you think1 ok!?
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