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Sunday Night Quotes 4/29/2012-Cooking

Cooking shows have slowly been taking over. From shows like “Chopped” to “Restaurant Impossible” it would appear that we are currently having a love affair with chefs, cooking and epicurean delights. I myself like watching “The Next Food Network Star” and “Restaurant Impossible.” Perhaps that is because growing up, my parents owned a couple of restaurants, and I began working my way up from sweeping the parking lot to cooking for them. This last year I have taken some great cooking classes at P.C.C Markets and Whole Foods that have been fun, inspiring and fascinating. So tonight enjoy some great quotes about cooking. From funny to profound, the preparation of food can truly be a spiritual experience.

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“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” ~ Julia Child

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” ~ Laurie Colwin

“if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” ~ Linda Henley

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.  ~Voltaire

“Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.” ~M.F.K. Fisher

“Cooking is a once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
                                                                                                           ~Craig Claiborne

“Fish, to taste right, must swim three times–in water, in butter and in wine.” ~Polish Proverb

“Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.”  ~Julia Child

“Cooking is an art and patience a virtue… Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing – love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist – not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love.”  ~Keith Floyd

“Cooking should be a carefully balanced reflection of all the good things of the earth.”
                                                                                        ~Jean & Pierre Troisgros

“What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.”   ~Anonymous

“To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.”  ~Revelation 2:7


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Sunday Night Quotes 4/22/2012-Spring

Today was absolutely beautiful in the Pacific Northwest! The evening has been  just perfect as we celebrate Earth Day to the tunes sung by the evening birds and receding sun. Today has actually felt like Spring actually has arrived. With these experiences fresh in mind tonight’s quotes are about Spring!

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
~Sitting Bull

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” ~Robert Schuller

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”  ~Robin Williams

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  ~Proverb

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.  ~Virgil A. Kraft

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. ~Winifred Mary Letts

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.  ~Margaret Atwood

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Sensitive Plant”

Spring has returned.  The Earth is like a child that knows poems.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.  The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.  ~Henry Van Dyke

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself ~ Lao Tzu

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.  ~Victor Hugo

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn. ~Irish Proverb

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Sunday Night quotes 4/15/2012-Story

Today I talked about changing the story that you find yourself in. Sometimes we spend years trying to get out of a story only to find that we were fighting against what our soul truly wanted. God often allows us to hit the wall as we try to change the storyline of life…sometimes we hit the same wall over and over…as we circle back again to familiar terrain, it’s time to look at the story differently…perhaps see what God is up to in the midst, and allow Him to craft the storyline with and for us…This week, here are some quotes on story for you to ruminate on! As I post tonight I am in Portland, very cool city, I wonder what story God might invite me into if I pay attention 🙂

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
~Maya Angelou

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.
~Charles Dickens

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
~George Eliot

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
~C. S. Lewis

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
~Orson Welles

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
~Isak Dinesen

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.
~Jean-Luc Godard

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
~John Updike

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
~James M. Barrie

Now you know the rest of the story.
~Paul Harvey

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
~Rumi

Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage.
~C.S. Lewis

My friend invented Cliff’s Notes. When I asked him how he got such a great idea, he said, “Well, first I… I just… well, to make a long story short…”
~Steven Wright

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
~Muriel Rukeyser, poet

Great Stories happen to those who can tell them.
~Ira Glass

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Sunday Night Quotes 4/8/2012- Easter

Since today is Easter, here are some Easter quotes to fill your thoughts and soul.

~Monty

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.  ~Martin Luther

There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou – Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.  ~Emily Bronte

We live and die; Christ died and lived!  ~John Stott

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.  ~Pope John Paul II

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.   ~Kahlil Gibran

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.  ~Anne Lamott

Before the Resurrection of Christ, the Holy Spirit came upon individuals only on certain occasions for special tasks. But now, after the Resurrection, Christ through the Holy Spirit dwells in the heart of every believer to give us supernatural power in living our daily lives.   ~Rev. Billy Graham

Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you’re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.   ~Rick Warren

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over
no matter what my circumstances.   ~Robert Flatt

The tomb of Christ is famous because of what it DOES NOT CONTAIN.”   ~Sam Morris

The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few:
Our illnesses don’t seem  nearly so final;
Our fears fade and lose their grip;
Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished;
Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated…
Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints
down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: ‘He is risen, indeed!   ~Charles Swindoll