Quotes

I've read some fantastic things here and there recently and wanted to share.  Some are funny, some are profound.  Hope you enjoy them, too!

• "I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them." -CS Lewis
• "They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday." (StoryPeople)
• "She wears long, floaty stuff so she doesn't forget that she's really only connected to the earth by the very tips of her toes." (also StoryPeople)
• "In the fifteenth Year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness" (Luke 3:1-2).
  You know out of the nine men listed above, there's a whole lot of titles... But the word of God came to the weird man living in the wilderness eating bugs. That's the guy I want to be. (Facebook bio)
• "On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived." -Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Facebook bio)
• “I'm 27 years old, and I have no money and no prospects. I'm already a burden to my parents and I'm frightened so don't judge me.” -Pride and Prejudice
• “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” -Epicurus
• "Going through the motions doesn't please you, a flawless performance is nothing to you. I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice." Psalm 51:16-17 (The Message)
• "If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair - that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty - people would go mad.  Married men would run amuck."
• Everything by Curly Girl, especially
• "Faith is believing that one of two things will happen. That there will be something solid for you to stand on - or that you will be taught to fly."
• "Funny thing about joy is that you only really find it when you are too busy having fun to go looking for it."
• "She packed up her potential and all she had learned, grabbed a cute pair of shoes and headed out to change a few things."
• "I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, I could save the world."
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