Today's Quote (01/10/17):
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." - Vaclav Havel
Today's Quote (01/01/17):
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill." - Christopher Parker
Today's Quote (11/08/16):
Election Day 2016 ~ Making Herstory!
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped." - RFK
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped." - RFK
Today's Quote (08/23/16):
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's Quote (07/27/16):
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
Today's Quote (9/5/15):
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. it can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
Today's Quote (9/1/15):
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turn what we
have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a
stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for
today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
Today's Quote (7/31/15):
"It would be madness and inconsistency to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means." - Lord Bacon, Novum Organum
Today's Quote (5/31/15):
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's Quote (5/22/15):
"He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate--bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains his heart." - Psalm 104:14-15 (NIV)
Today's Quote (5/15/15)
"Everything will be alright in the end, if it's not alright, it is not yet the end . . . prepare to be amazed, this is that very site! I have offered a vision of the future . . . most definitely.” - Movie, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” (for the elderly and beautiful)
Today's Quote (4/10/15):
"To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time." - Clara Ortega
Today's Quote (4/5/15):
"Knowing your value, to me, means knowing when to stand up, knowing when to speak out and knowing when to fight for yourself and to fight for the people you love." - Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Today's Quote (3/25/15):
"There, but for the grace of God, go I." - Paraphrase of a proverbial expression originates in a remark by John Bradford, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.' upon seeing prisoners led to execution.
Today's Quote (3/23/15):
"Our nature has been do deeply curved in upon itself . . . that it not only turns the finest gifts of God in upon itself and enjoys them . . . it even uses God Himself to achieve these aims . . . and it is even seeking God for its own sake." - Martin Luther, "Luther's Works," volume 26, Lectures on Romans
Today's Quote (1/23/15):
"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of s fine a virtue." - Martin Luther, "Martin Luther's Christmas Book"
Today's Quote (12/19/14):
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one
without faith, no explanation is possible.” - Thomas Aquinas
Today's Quote (11/17/14):
"Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks." - unknown
Today's Quote (10/26/14): Refermation Sunday
The Five Solas:
Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")Sola fide ("by faith alone")
Sola gratia ("by grace alone")
Solus Christus or Solo Christo ("Christ alone"
or "through Christ alone")
Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")
- Five Pillars of the Protestant Reformation
Today's Quote (10/25/14):
“These are the Scriptures which make fools of all the
wise and understanding, and are open only to the small and simple, as Christ
says in Matthew 11:25. Therefore dismiss your own opinions and feelings, and
think of the scriptures as the loftiest and noblest of holy things, as the
richest of mines which can never be sufficiently explored, in order that you
may find divine wisdom which God here lays before you in such simple guise as
to quench all pride. Here you will find the swaddling clothes and the manger in
which Christ lies.” -- Luther, Luther’s Works, vol. 35: Prefaces to the Old
Testament, 236.
Today's Quote (10/24/14):
“The Christian reader should make it his first task to
seek out the literal sense, as they call it. For it alone holds its ground in
trouble and trial.” -‐
Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, vol.9, 24
Today's Quote (10/23/14):
“The Holy Scriptures require a humble reader who shows
reverence and fear toward the Word of God, and constantly says, ‘Teach me,
teach me, teach me…. The Spirit resists the proud.’” -‐ Martin Luther, Luther’s
Works, vol.54, 379; Table Talk, 5017
Today's Quote (10/22/14):
“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it
runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me… A simple layman armed with
Scripture is to be believed above a pope or a cardinal without it.” -- Martin
Luther, quoted in “Martin Luther--The Early Years,” Christian History, no. 34.
Today's Quote (10/21/14):
"It is for
Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, but it is not for the Scriptures'
sake that we believe in Christ." -- Martin Luther
Today's Quote (10/10/14):
"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
Today's Quote (8/27/14):
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar
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