NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1384

 

• ·       Be a light in dark times. — Brooke

  ·       “The religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus.”

  ·       “Christianity is a mighty religion, seeing that the commonplace disciples of a crucified carpenter set in motion those teachings which conquered the Roman world in three hundred years. Christianity contains enough of Jesus’ teachings to immortalize it.”

  ·       “When you experience ... a transformation of faith, you are no longer a slavish part of the mathematical cosmos but rather a liberated volitional son of the Universal Father.”

  ·       You are multi-talented! — Brooke

  ·       “I have come forth from the Father; if, therefore, you are ever in doubt as to what you would ask of the Father, ask in my name, and I will present your petition in accordance with your real needs and desires and in accordance with my Father’s will.” - Jesus

  ·       Splash in a rain puddle! — Brooke

  ·       Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. - May Sarton

  ·       “Virtue is volitional with personality; righteousness is not automatic in freewill creatures.”

  ·       "Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice one is not a person but a member, an instrument, a thing." - Archibald MacLeish

  ·       Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.  - 14th Dalai Lama

  ·       Forelsket: the euphoria of first falling in love.

  ·       “Only a glimpse of the circle of eternity can inspire man to do his best and can challenge the best in him to do its utmost. And when man is thus at his best, he lives most unselfishly for the good of others, his fellow sojourners in time and eternity.”