August 2011
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“There was a deep, black, wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.” Flannery O’Conner
March 2011
8 posts
“Shut your eyes and see.”
– James Joyce (via libraryland)
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“young people’s games of soldiers or robbers in their play-time are also art in its first stage. You know, they spring from the growing artistic instincts of the young. And sometimes these games are much better than performances in the theatre, the only difference is that people go there to look at actors, while in these games the young people are the actors themselves.” -...
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Apartment Story - The National
Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on Can you carry my drink I have everything else I can tie my tie all by myself I’m getting tied, I’m forgetting why Oh we’re so disarming darling, everything we did believe is diving diving diving diving off the balcony Tired and wired we ruin too easy sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave...
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“He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached thier goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, in all reality are demons.” -Henri Nouwen
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If I were to define Christian perfection, I should not say that it is a perfection of striving but specifically that it is the deep recognition of the imperfection of one’s striving, and precisely because of this a deeper and deeper consciousness of the need for grace, not grace for this or that, but the infinite need infinitely for grace. (Soren Kierkegaard)
February 2011
6 posts
“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
– Henry Ward Beecher (via libraryland)
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Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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“But in reality, the greatest blessings come by way of madness, indeed of madness that is heaven sent.” Plato
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“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” - Nathaniel Hawthorn
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“Longing transforms obedience as gradually as the tide lifts a grounded ship.” - C.S. Lewis
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“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via libraryland)
January 2011
7 posts
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“Jesus, help me find my proper place Jesus, help me find my proper place Help me in my weakness cause I’m falling out of grace” - The Welcome Wagon
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“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance.” - Descartes
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” - Lewis Carroll
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“No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due his neighbor; nor has any man a right to be so immersed in active life as to neglect the contemplation of God.” - St. Augustine
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“a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated outdoors.” - Henry David Thoreau
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“The best works of art are the expression of man’s struggle to free himself from this condition.” - Henry David Thoreau
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“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do or rather something to be.” - Henry David Thoreau
December 2010
4 posts
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– (via gatekeeper)
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“Christ is the morning star Who when the night Of this world is past Brings to his saints The promise of The light of life & opens everlasting day.” - The Venerable Bede
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everyone goes “Awww!” - Jack...
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. - Soren Kierkegaard
October 2010
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5 simple rules for happiness
missjennlai:
1. free your heart from hatred 2. free your mind from worries 3. live simply 4. give more 5. expect less
August 2010
1 post
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Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony? - Leonardo Da Vinci
July 2010
2 posts
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“We will have to repent in this generation not mearly for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.” Martin...
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“What I believe is not what I say I believe, what I believe is what I do.” - Donald Miller
June 2010
3 posts
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Go Do - Jonsi
Go sing, too loud Make your voice...
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You matter. And I care.
May 2010
8 posts
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Dance on our Graves - Paper Route
“I need you now. I need you more than ever before, before.
When we can see the light when we’re going home, We’ll dance on our graves with our bodies below. We’ll sing “Glory!” and Hallelujah”.
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“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can...”
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to...”
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In a market dimly lit - mewithoutYou
you kept a...
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“Too many people are thinking of security… They seem to be more afraid of...”
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“We don’t appreciate people. Our culture is focused on the love and appreciation...”
– Anthony Singavong (via sunshineinmysoul)
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“Failure and opposition award us opportunities that success and support cannot.” - Jon Foreman
Read the rest of the article titled “The Dark Horse: Joan of Arc, Elliot Smith and Me” here: http://huff.to/9aIdKr
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Jónsi & Alex - Boy 1904
April 2010
19 posts
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“The life, the self-sacrifice, the blood that believers are ready to shed for their faith, is the greatest argument for Christianity” - Richard Wurmbrand
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“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by...”
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“What we are doing may seem insignificant, but it is most important that we do...”
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mewithoutYou - The King Beetle on a Coconut...
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“I will carefully earn riches to be carried with me after the death of my...”
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Someday You Will Be Loved - Death Cab For Cutie
...
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“Let us not to be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough…...”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the...”
– Winston Churchill (via pongtastic) (via sunshineinmysoul)
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“We will have to repent in this generation not mearly for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.
