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"Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So, I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands." - Psalms 63:3-4 As I came across this phrase, I was just wonder what exactly steadfast meant? So, I looked up in the dictionary and according to Merriam-Webster it means firmly fixed in place and not subject
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver I think I want to fail now, LOL. Of course, all of us have excuses to make every time we just don't want to do something. Also, besides excuses, we are just lazy and don't want to put any effort into it. Making Excuses What this got me thinking about
"You either do it completely and utterly, or you should stop doing it." - Bono This goes for anything in life. Whatever you do, I suggest going all out and doing it 100% with all your mind to it. Kind of like love. For example, if you love someone than you want to contribute your heart 100% to your loved one. Otherwise, it just ends up with a breakup
"There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus, The Matrix Have you ever seen the movie, "The Matrix?" It is a movie you just want to watch and it is played by actor Keanu Reeves. The first movie I've seen with Keanu is in the movie, "Speed." That movie is a movie you start watching and you just don't want to stop. Great movie
"Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." - Psalm 27:14 This Psalm answers everything in just 4 words: "Wait for the Lord." Sometimes in life we may have problems, we may run into issues that affect our life. These problems can come and go, or they can stay for a while. But it doesn't matter, because at the end its kind of like
"Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things you are grateful for." - Oprah Winfrey I've never really been a fan of journaling as I always thought it was waste of time. Hower, if Oprah says write it on a journal, then I got to believe that it will work. Realistically, it just doesn't really matter if you write a journal or not, it is what you believe.
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God." - Dwight L. Moody Well, in most cases I've noticed lately that almost everyone is forgetting God. It is as if he is not even remembered. Just take a look around you and watch the news. Almost everything I'm watching on the news is done in evil desire. All this evil desire comes from
"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing It is true and we need to focus more on prayer as it answers to us. Many people who don't pray, think they are doing right, but they are not. Also, they don't know that praying is the way of communicating with God. Therefore, if you never prayed before give it a try now.
"But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head." - Psalms 3:3 Perhaps one of the most important things in life is to know that God is our shield. He has made us and has made us out of love. Second hand, this is reminding me that possibly he has made us for something else. It's kind of hard to tell
"There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched." - A Course in Miracles This quote is pretty much true and something to think about. I think we all have this peace within us in our hearts and it will always remain there. Sometimes I like to think it's
"Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known." - Michel de Montaigne Well, I'm really not sure if this makes sense or not, but it's kind of like playing chess. Just reading this quote makes me put myself into position of chess to really figure it out. Otherwise, you are stuck not knowing exactly what Michel de Montaigne is really saying. Of course, it is understandable but
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance." - Eric Hoffer There are just so many religions out there and it is hard to really understand a person just by their religion. At the same time, it is easy to understand the type of person the person can be just by his/her belief in religion. For
"I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting." - Bono There are just so many religions out there. I mean it's kind of hard to say what is right or wrong with all these religions taking place. Few of them: Christianity Islam Buddhism Confucianism Judaism Druze Hinduism Sikhism Bahá’í Zoroastrianism Jainism Rastafarianism Shinto Just so many of them, but it is easy
"The faith that stands on authority is not faith." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Well in order to understand this we first need to understand what authority means. It means to have power kind of like leadership way. You give the right of way, make decisions and give orders. This said, Ralph Waldo Emerson makes sense into what he is saying. Why? Because faith doesn't need the right of way
"A person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all." - Alan Watts I think Alan Watts is right in some ways as the closer we get to one specific religion, we don't believe in the rest. That is why I'm open minded about my religion and what
"What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?" - James 2:14 Well, what I'm thinking is that people say they believe in God, but their behaviors don't prove of it. For example, someone might say she is an angel, yet goes and curses at people. Or some guy might be like his love for God is
"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right." - Max Lucado Absolutely I believe with Max Lucado on his saying. Faith comes along way in life, and I think God is watching us and the time will come when you may understand that. Most of all, it is just important to know that need
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." - Hebrews 11:3 This makes everything feel complete and true. Fox example, we all know that he builds the universe in 7 days. Well, actually 6 days and the 7th day is the resting day. This is why I usually try to give myself 1
"The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children." - Nancy Friday I think we owe them everything, after all they are the reason to why we are here today. It is because of them that we have a life which means we need to give them everything we can.
"The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target - not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things."
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." - Albert Schweitzer In some ways this is pretty helpful and reminds me that something we pass on to someone else. It could be anything such as basketball for example. Let's say you are the greatest basketball player, you pass on the
"In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!" - Hebrews What I Think about this is that we don't need to focus on what we want to eat, but rather just to eat something. For example, instead of wanting to eat a cheeseburger, we should just
"The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you." - Romans 16:20 Satan is here on Earth and is trying to overpower us, especially those with Gods heart. Satan does no good and is here living very silently trying to hunt us cleverly. The times we have a hard time, and we try to do something out
"Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!" - 2 Corinthians 9:15 Not only is that we should be thankful for what we have but be thankful for God sharing with us his inexpressible gift. The fact that he came to Earth thousands of years ago to prove us of sin. To tell us to not sin anymore and that gift spread from heaven means a lot to us.
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau For some reason this quote reminds me of the book: "Man's Search for Meaning," written by Viktor E. Frankl. If you haven't read that book, I highly suggest it as it's just what the title says. I have read the book so many years ago and don't remember it much, but I remember it
