Govenor William Bradford

From my years young in days of youth,
God did make known to me his truth,
And call'd me from my native place
For to enjoy the means of grace.
In wilderness he did me guide,
And in strange lands for me provide.
In fears and wants, though weal and woe,
A pilgrim, past I to and fro:
Oft left of them whom I did trust;
How vain it is to rest on dust!
A man of sorrows I have been,
And many changes I have seen.
Wars, wants, peace, plenty, have I known;
And some advanc'd, others thrown down.
The humble poor, cheeful and glad;
Rich, discontent, sower and sad:
When fears and sorrows have been mixt,
Consolations came betwixt.
Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust,
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom he loves he doth castise,
And then all tears wipes from their eyes.
Farewell, dear children, whom I love,
Your better Father is above:
When I am gone, he can supply;
To him I leave you when I die.
Fear him in truth, walk in his ways,
And he will bless you all your days.
My days are spent, old age is come,
My strength it fails, my glass near run:
Now I will wait, when work is done,
Until my happy change shall come,
When from my labours I shall rest,
With Christ above for to be blest.

God & Country

"Whatever makes men good Christan's, makes them good citizens."
-Daniel Webster -Founding Father




The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart."
-Thomas Jefferson -Author of the Declaration Independence.

"The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests."
-Andrew Jackson -7th U.S.President

"Men must choose to be governed by God, or condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants."
-William Penn -Founder of Philadelphia, PA

"Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals, all the standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves."
-Theodore Roosevelt -26th U.S President

"It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! We shall not fight alone. God presides over the destines of nations. The battle is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, ALMIGHTY GOD! Give me liberty or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry -Founding Father

Martin Luther

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I
may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is
proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

A. W. Tozer

“We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone… (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.”



Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees.
A few of the books that Tozer wrote include Let My People Go, Man the Dwelling Place of God, Paths to Power, The Divine Conquest, The Pursuit of God, and Knowledge Of The Holy

Puppet

Puppet,
Poor Puppet,
Who's pulling your strings?
Puppets can't answer.
Puppets just swing;
Puppets just hang there
Docile and sweet,
Kill on command
And riot in the street.
Puppet,
Poor Puppet,
Who's pulling your strings?

Ruth Bell Graham

Victor Hugo

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.


It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor-Marie Hugo, 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885, was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
His best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris; known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Henry Ford

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production.

Francis Schaeffer

"No man can live without a worldview; therefore, there is no man who is not a philospher."

On Loving Others

"As I go through life I don't want to merely pass by people...I want to pass through them."





"People are God's greatest creation, invest in them"

"I have never met a person God didn't love and that I should love too."

"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."

"And I will be my brother's keeper, Not the one who judges him
I won't despise him for his weakness,I won't regard him for his strength
I won't take away his freedom, I will help him learn to stand
And I will, I will be my brother's keeper." Brother's Keeper, Rich Mullins

"Loving a person just the way they are, it's no small thing
It takes some time to see things through.
Sometimes things change, sometimes we're waiting.
We need grace either way." Loving a Person, Sara Groves

Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
~Chapter 1

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." Chapter 6

"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. --Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
-Mr Bennet, Chapter 20

“I shall not say that you are mistaken,” he replied, “because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.” ~Mr. Darcy, Chapter 31


Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.[1] Amongst scholars and critics, Austen's realism and biting social commentary have cemented her historical importance as a writer. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.

Joni

"There are more important things in life than walking." ~The God I Love


In a diving accident in 1967 Joni Eareckson Tada was left hospitalized and paralyzed from the neck down.

Charles Dickens

"It a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
~A Tale of Two Cities





Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812–9 June 1870, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Some of his notable works include Sketches by Boz, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers.

J.R.R. Tolkien

"'You are a very fine person, Mr.Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!'
'Thank goodness!' said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco jar."
~The Hobbit

George Eliot

"For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
~Middlemarch

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of eight novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.

My three year old niece..

was in her car seat in the back seat of the car I was driving and she began to sob and wail. I asked her what the problem was and with tears streaming down her face she wailed "I have a creeper!" :)

Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.


How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.


Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.

Good Friday

Today is Good Friday, the day we remember the death of the greatest Lover of all, Jesus Christ.
Here are a few verses on His death.


He was despised and rejected by men,
a Man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Surely He took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered Him stricken by God,
smitten by Him, and afflicted.

But He was pierced for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him,
and by His wounds we are healed.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet He did not open His mouth;
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so He did not open His mouth.

By oppression and judgment He was taken away.
And who can speak of His descendants?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people He was stricken.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in His death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Yet it was the LORD's will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer,
and though the LORD makes His life a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring and prolong His days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
Isaiah 53:3-10

A Touch of C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

And...one on love
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."


Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British[1] novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.

The Definition of Quote

1. To repeat or copy the words of (another), usually with acknowledgment of the source.
2. To cite or refer to for illustration or proof.
3. To repeat a brief passage or excerpt from.
4. To state (a price) for securities, goods, or services.