"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really love them." --anon.

"Vengeance is a pssion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you...The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops, never lets anyone off." --Lewis Smedes

"When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure." --Philip Yancey

"To bless the people who have oppressed our spirits, emotionally deprived us, or in other ways handicapped us, is the most extraordinary work any of us will ever do." --Elizabeth O'Connor

"MAMBOOOO!"
"assolutely."
"For all our sakes, you must stop this freakiness with the feet."
--Happy Feet

"We are not promised tomorrow." --Dr. Allen Hightower III

"Heaven is not here, It's there. If we were given all we wanted here,our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next." -Elizabeth Elliott

"The thundercloud was an exotic structure, forming a natural cathedral with a massive arched roof. With some imagination he could see pillars, windows, soaring tiers, and snarling gargoyles. It was a wild beauty." --Christopher Paolini, "Eragon"

"I am the ALBERT EINSTEIN of football!!!" -- Prashanth Francis

"WHY the ace of SPADES?!?!" --katherine riskey

"Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them. Now behold, I have made you today as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land. The will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you,' declares the Lord." --Jeremiah 1:17-19

"CREAM and CHEESE...the two worst words in my vocabulary." --Tara Walker

"We tend to see faces. We look for faces. There are potato chips that look like Richard Nixon."
"Ohmygosh! The entire planet is out to get us."
--Dr. C. Renee James

"I'm not angry. I just want you to be leaders. The world is dying for real leaders and in the absence of leaders, they'll simply follow the loudest voice!" - Dr. Hightower

"Jesus was born in the middle east, and is white with rosey cheeks...ya right" -Dr. Hightower

"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." ~C.S. Lewis

"Don't vibrate, just shimmer." - Dr. Hightower

"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy." --on Henrietta's facebook.

"Not all who wander are lost." --Robert Frost

"feeny...feeny....fee-hee-hee-HEENY!!!"

"I knew the trigger was there, I saw the (metaphorical) 'bullet' coming...and I stood my ground, determined and dependent on my own strength. I am, after all, a STRONG woman and have been told that by many my entire life. I would take this 'bullet' just like I had the rest. How odd that I would expect it to do something other than rip through my heart. How odd that I would not have prepared myself for it.) That's what grief will do...it breaks you and makes things not work right. Your reasoning: broken. Your "common" sense: broken. Your heart: broken. Your body: broken. Your emotions: broken. Your spirit: broken. And I don't think it matters who you are or how strong you are or how much faith you have, you can not fix any of it on your own. And if someone goes through this grief without God, without the Great Physician, all they can do in their own strength, I believe, is bandage the pain...with overwork, overeating, overcommitting, overindulging, or with substance abuse, self-abuse, abusing others, anything else to try to make it feel better...but it's just a bandage." --Kathy D.

"Just think, you're here not by chance but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - you are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation." --anonymous

"God does not send us into the dangerous and exacting life of faith because we are qualified. He chooses us in order to qualify us for what He wants us to be and do." --Eugene Peterson

"Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us and should ever be considered in any sense our own." --A.W. Tozer

"But thanks be to God, who made us captives and leads us along in Christ's triumphal procession. Now wherever we go, He uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Good News like a sweet perfume." --2 Corinthians 2:14

"May God who gives patience and encouragement help you live in complete harmony with each other-each with the attitude of Christ Jesus toward the other. And then all of us can praise the Lord together with one voice giving glory to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." --Romans 15:5-6

"And while you're there, you might as well put it on the breath."
"Twentieth century's all about singing the right wrong note."
"The right notes do have to be there, but it has to be the investment of your soul."
"Don't look so academic about it."
"If you're not energized about it then you look lame, and if you overdo it even five percent then you look dorky."
--Dr. Allen Hightower III

"Don't confuse routine with commitment." --anonymous...quoted today by Franklin

"Find a guy who will risk the comments of his friends just so he can be with you, who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who stays awake just to watch you sleep...
Wait for the guy who pursues you, who kisses your forehead, the one who would do anything just to make you smile, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats...
Who holds your hand in front of his friends, who introduces you as the coolest girl in the world, the one who is constantly reminding you how much he cares, and how lucky he is to have you, the one that turns to his friends and says, "that's her!...that's the one worth waiting for."
-Anonymous

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?" ~ Jane Austen

"It's a Pei Wei rave!"
"Oh, you want to hear FUNNY..."
--Katherine Riskey

"Where's the water coming from?"
"Oh, I am SO blogging about this."
--Anne Radimecky

"Grace's amazing hands, they're ugly; bruised by the blows that I have thrown. She knows well I don't deserve her, but she laughs and says, that's the way love goes!" --Dave Barnes

"I don't even know how to deal with that! I have no patience for jam hands!"
"If there's any day to make up after a big fight, it's DANISH DAY."
"You will do your homework and you will go to bed WHERE'S THE GNOME?!?!"
"You make me tired."
--Gilmore Girls