where quotes and poems collide
Pavithra Mehta
Aug 30th
“Patience is a kind of love. A love that is it’s own explanation in bewildered circumstance. It is an old, old woman placing a wrinkled-parchment hand against the cheek of a reckless child. Because her heart is too wise to make room for reproach. Too full to find place for offense.”
—Pavithra Mehta
Diane Sawyer
Jul 10th
“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”
—Diane Sawyer
Antoine de Saint Exupery
May 12th
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
—Antoine de Saint Exupery
Samuel Johnson
May 11th
“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and loosing itself in schemes of future felicity . . . The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
—Samuel Johnson
Jesus is calling out to His sleeping beauties, by Nicole
Mar 20th
My flesh screams out. It whines and it whimpers at the thought
of what it cannot have, of what is not good for the soul. I adore the beauty. The glimmer and the glamour of the world awakens a desire. Sometimes my thoughts are drawn away from the security and the love of Jesus to the sparkling world and I wish that I could go out and bask in it. Partying, flirting, flaunting, touching, dancing, drinking, doing whatever desires spring forth in that very moment, without the harmful effects forced upon my soul, without the sadness that is deep within me at the thought of what that felt like. The seeming beauty, the makeup, the hair, the outfits, the shoes, the dancing, the skin, the words. They attempt to captivate me and lure me in to touch them with just a prick of my finger. Then it puts me to sleep, deafening my ears to what Jesus has for me. Freedom. Truth. Beauty. Everlasting Love. That is what our hearts simply desire when you bring it down to the bare essentials.
I want to scream out a resounding NO to the world and the false
beauty and power in it as it pulls at me, threatening to RIP me APART. Asking for this fragile heart God put within my body that only He can care for and then tearing it to PIECES and throwing it back at me when I desperately give in. The evil world laughing in my face because it thinks it has conquered me. It thinks it has permanent power over me, demanding that I lure others into its soul-killing seduction. Feeding my anger from the sin and lies that try to kill my hopeful heart and soul with the very sin it produced. I almost give in. My grasping for any sort of love has turned into deep desperation. It has almost deadened me to everything. Thinking who has the strength for any of this? Who can keep going on this way? Who can feel such deep violent heart-stabbing pain and not want to inflict that pain on those who cause it? Shouldn’t they feel the way I feel? If they don’t want to care about my soul and not cause it, don’t they deserve to go through the same?
Who can save me from this destruction that even I inflict upon
myself? At times I have given in to all those thoughts. I have lied in bed believing the lies of the evil one. Waiting for someone to come and rescue me. Wondering if anyone cares enough to love me in a way that no one ever has. Watching the days pass by wishing they would end forever. Then I feel someone speak to me. Speak to me in a way that no one ever has. He is loving and sweet and confident and bold and strong! He wants me! He speaks words to me that I want to be true but scared that they will be lies like everything else in my life. Then I SEE the truth of what He has spoken. He has NEVER lied to me. He always speaks LOVING words to me and infuses LIFE into my heart and mind and soul. I can LIVE for real now. I can LIVE like never before because I know that HE is TRUTH. JESUS is the only TRUTH and complete LOVE I’ve ever known. And that is the way it’s meant to be. When we love Him more than anything else and cherish that above all else, we can truly LIVE and LIVE FOREVER. The FIGHT is worth it!!!
GOD can HEAL your broken heart! He is healing mine. He doesn’t
have to have all the pieces, those that have been stolen or thrown away, those that are now only slivers that are barely found. He makes your heart new! He creates new pieces, reforms the ones that don’t fit together and seals up the cracks and broken parts. He covers your heart with His never ending Love. He will do whatever it takes to heal you! Even if that means allowing your heart to be broken first. He loves you with a love that you will never get from any other person only because we are incapable of loving the way He does and to the full amazing extent that He loves.
- We love Him, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19
- The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18
- He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3
- The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:17
- For He inflicts pain, and gives relief; He wounds, and His hands also heal. Job 5:18
Sargent Shriver, philanthropist, at yale university 1964
Mar 16th
“Serve, serve, serve, for it is the servant that will save us all.”
—Sargent Shriver
Josh Billings
Mar 3rd
“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
—Josh Billings
Suzanne Brogger
Mar 3rd
“If a woman can only succeed by emulating men, I think it is a great loss and not a success. The aim is not only for a woman to succeed, but to keep her womanhood and let her womanhood influence society.”
—Suzanne Brogger
Blaise Pascal
Mar 1st
“The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.”
—Blaise Pascal
Oprah Winfrey
Feb 27th
“Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.”
—Oprah Winfrey
Agnes Baker Pilgrim
Feb 26th
”We want to preserve the beauty we walk in for the seventh generation, for the unborn to be able to walk in beauty and have clean air and good water.”
—Agnes Baker Pilgrim
Henry David Thoreau
Feb 26th
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau
Soloman, Proverbs 4:23
Feb 26th
“Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.”
—Soloman, Proverbs 4:23
Authur Ashe, tennis player, at Kean College 1990
Feb 25th
“Except for Native Americans, we are all immigrants here, and we must learn to live with one another, among one another, for one another.”
—Authur Ashe
Jimmy Carter
Feb 25th
“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
—Jimmy Carter
Vincent McNabb
Feb 25th
“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that god gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”
—Vincent McNabb
Cynthia Ozick
Feb 24th
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
—Cynthia Ozick
Thomas A. Kempis
Feb 24th
“What greater joy can I possibly have than to remember that I have such a good Father that he is goodness itself; so holy that he is holiness itself; so wise that he is wisdom itself, and finally so powerful that he can do all things in heaven, on earth and in the depths.”
—Thomas A. Kempis
Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. president, at Howard University 1965
Feb 23rd
“For what is justice? It is to fulfill the fair expectations of man.”
—Lyndon B. Johnson
George Washington
Feb 23rd
“I do not enter into agreements but with an intention to fulfilling them, and I expect the same punctuality on the part of those with whom they are made.”
—George Washington
Joseph Addison
Feb 23rd
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
—Joseph Addison