\nOne reason God created time was so there would be a place to bury the failures\nof the past.<\/p>\n\n
James Long<\/p>\n
\nIf I have learned anything, I owe it neither to precepts nor to books, but\nto a few opportune misfortunes. Perhaps the school of misfortune is the very\nbest.<\/p>\n\n
Louise Honorine de Choiseul (1734-1801)<\/p>\n
\nMany people quench the Spirit by being down in the mouth rather than rejoicing,\nby planning rather than praying, by murmuring rather than giving thanks,\nand by worrying instead of trusting in him who is faithful.<\/p>\n\n
Cameron Townsend,\nfounder of Wycliffe Bible Translators<\/p>\n
\nThe world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying\nto spell God with the wrong blocks.<\/p>\n\n
Edward Arlington Robinson<\/p>\n
\nAt the point of desperation is the time for rededication.<\/p>\n\n
Wellington Boone<\/p>\n
\nTo keep your marriage brimming\nWith love in the loving cup,\nWhen you’re wrong, admit it,\nWhen you’re right, shut up.<\/p>\n\n
Ogden Nash<\/p>\n
\nLet the wife make her husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry\nto see him leave.<\/p>\n\n
Martin Luther<\/p>\n
\nA woman with a woman’s point of view is of more value than when she forgets\nshe’s a woman and begins to act like a man.<\/p>\n\n
Nelly Ptaschkina<\/p>\n
\nManhood, once an opportunity for achievement, now seems like a problem to\nbe overcome. What you find is terrible gender anxiety, guys trying to be\nMr. Right; the man who can bake a cherry pie, go shoot skeet, come back,\ntoss a salad, converse easily about intimate matters, cry if need be, laugh,\nhug, be vulnerable, perform passionately that night, and the next day go\noff and lift them bales onto that barge and tote it. Being perfect is a terrible\nway to spend your life, and guys aren’t equipped for it, anyway.<\/p>\n\n
Garrison Keillor<\/p>\n
\nI have never been tempted to resort to gratuitous sex, profanity, or violence.\nI couldn’t write a book that I would be embarrassed for my kids to read a\nfew years from now. Plus, my mother would kill me.<\/p>\n\n
John Grisham\nbest-selling author and Sunday school teacher<\/p>\n
\nMy grandmother used to tell me that every boss is temporary, that every rainy\nday is temporary, that every hardship is temporary. She used to tell me,\n“Son, every goodbye ain’t gone. Just hold on—there’s joy coming in the morning.”<\/p>\n\n
James Melvin Washington<\/p>\n
\nEven the darkest hour of your life is only 60 minutes long.<\/p>\n\n
Unknown<\/p>\n
\nWhile integration was a political concept, reconciliation is spiritual.\nIntegration forced some people to change their behavior. Reconciliation invites\nthe changing of hearts.<\/p>\n\n
Spencer Perkins, author of More Than Equals<\/p>\n
\nThe problem of pain, of war and the horror of war, of poverty and disease\nis always confronting us. But a God who allows no pain, no grief, also allows\nno choice. There is little unfairness in a colony of ants, but also there\nis little freedom.<\/p>\n\n
Madeleine L’Engle, Newberry-Award-winning author<\/p>\n\n \n
1996 by Christianity Today\/LEADERSHIP journal<\/p>\n