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Wednesday 13 March 2013

Some quotes that inspire me



"It is a serious thing," says Lewis, "to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no 'ordinary' people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whome we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit -- immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously -- no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner -- no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."
--C. S. Lewis, From The Weight of Glory. 



"If I were trying to read, much less anwer all the attacks made on me, this shop might well be closed for any other business. I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. It the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." Abraham Lincoln. (a framed copy of this was given to Winston Churchill as a 70th birthday gift by FD Roosevelt)


"I often feel very grateful to God that I have undergone fearful depression. I know the borders of despair and the horrible brink of that gulf of darkness into which my feet have almost gone. But hundreds of times I have been able to give a helpful grip to brethren and sisters who have come into that same condition, which grip I could never have given if I had not known their despondency. So I believe that the darkest and most dreadful experience of a child of God will help him to be a fisher of men if he will but follow Christ."
Charles Spurgeon  2200 Quotations from the writings of Charles H. Spurgeon

“When you wonder why you are being severely tested, remember that the reason does not lie so much with you but with those to whom God will make you useful.  You are being led along a rough road.  You are being tested and instructed in order to help those whom you will find in some of the earth’s dark regions.”
Charles Spurgeon.

"A Christian is the last person who should feel impelled to prove herself right.A true Christian is one who knows her need to be made right. And an attitude of belligerence or scorn at anything cuts directly across the deepest meaning of Calvary. Christians whose lives are working are those who have relaxed in the self-effort department. Those who have seen at last that in themselves is no good thing. But who have also seen that with those selves eternally linked with the life of Christ the human personality potential is glorious." Eugenia Price "Woman to Woman".

"Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It works devastation deep within personality. It circumscribes in a thousand different ways. There is nothing good about it. But the gifts God can give with it are the richest the human spirit can know." Margaret Clarksen.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose a response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl.




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