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Sunday Night Quotes 4/1/2012-Love


The focus for tonight’s list of quotes is “Love.” In so many ways, our culture has lessened, or cheapened the concept/definition of love. We easily say we love pizza and our kids in the same sentence, yet the depth and reality of what we mean is very different. So tonight, pause, think, and ponder. What is love?

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ~Mother Teresa

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in
the world. ~Emmet Fox

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ~Erich Fromm

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ~Khalil Gibran

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. ~Leo Buscaglia

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~Aristotle

“I’ve told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends.”       ~Matthew 15:11-12 (Message)

1 Corinthians 13:1-10 (Message)

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

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Sunday Night Quotes 3/25/2012

As I settle in to select quotes for tonight, my choice has been influenced by the events of the day. This afternoon I officiated a funeral service for a man who knew me most of my life. He lived 94 incredibly full years, and today his family and friends said goodbye and entered the journey of grieving which actually reminds us of life and love. So, my quotes tonight will focus on life. May they bring you some sense of God’s goodness and presence in all things. ~Monty

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.  ~William Wallace

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”  ~Dr. Seuss

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ~William W. Purkey

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”  ~Oscar Wilde

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
~Mother Teresa

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ~Mark Twain

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~George Bernard Shaw

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ~Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Where there is love there is life.”  ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”  ~Søren Kierkegaard

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”
~Paulo Coelho

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Sunday Night Quotes 3/18/2012

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”       ~Anne Lamott

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it. ~C.H. Spurgeon

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.   ~G. K. Chesterton

“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.”
~Frederick Buechner

“Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.”  ~Confucious

Brennan Manning

“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands (see Revelation 7:9), I shall see the prostitute from the Kit-Kat Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, who tearfully told me that she could find no other employment to support her two-year-old son. I shall see the woman who had an abortion and is haunted by guilt and remorse but did the best she could faced with grueling alternatives; the businessman besieged with debt who sold his integrity in a series of desperate transactions; the insecure clergyman addicted to being liked, who never challenged his people from the pulpit and longed for unconditional love; the sexually abused teen molested by his father and now selling his body on the street, who, as he falls asleep each night after his last ‘trick’, whispers the name of the unknown God he learned about in Sunday school.’But how?’ we ask.

Then the voice says, ‘They have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.’

There they are. There *we* are – the multitude who so wanted to be faithful, who at times got defeated, soiled by life, and bested by trials, wearing the bloodied garments of life’s tribulations, but through it all clung to faith.

My friends, if this is not good news to you, you have never understood the gospel of grace.”

~Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
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Sunday Night Quotes 3/11/2012

 

“Jesus didn’t have to topple Rome to change the world, he just needed to topple hearts.” ~ Monty C. Wright

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”   ~John Buchan

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”    ~Peter Drucker

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”  ~Anon.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”  ~Rumi

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.”  ~Benjamin Hoff  The Tao of Pooh