Grief...

"Grief is something that you can't avoid, it doesn't go away. It might disappear for a little while but it's still there, it somehow needs to be lived through..." ~ David Matthews

The moving Finger...

 

Something to think about...

 

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
 Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

 

~ Omar Khayyám

Why athiests can't find God...

This is good, succinctly put...




"The atheist cannot find God for the same reason that a thief cannot find a policeman..." ~ Francis Thompson

and this too shall pass...

"and this too shall pass away..." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! - how consoling in the depths of affliction!" - Abraham Lincoln

To see Jesus...

And for you and me, too, that will be the greatest of all sights. When we awake from the dream men call life, when we put off the image of the earth and break the bonds of time and mortality, when the scales of time and sense have fallen from our eyes and the garment of corruption has been put off and when this mortality has put on immortality and this corruption has put on incorruption and we awake in the everlasting morning, that will be the sight that will stir us and hold us. ~ Clarence Macartney

Some people...

“Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.”


― Mark Twain

The definition of "class" ~ Ann Landers

I was given this by a co-worker who kept a copy in his wallet snipped from the newspaper...

Definition of "Class" by Ann Landers

Class never runs scared. It is surefooted and confident and it can handle whatever comes along.

Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.

Class never makes excuses. It takes lumps and learns from past mistakes.

Class knows good manners are nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. A blue blood can be totally without class while the son of a Welsh miner may ooze class from every pore.

Class can "walk with kings and keep it's virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch."

Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself.

Bruce Larson on fellowship.

The neighborhood bar is possibly the best counterfeit there is for the fellowship Christ wants to give His church. It’s an imitation, dispensing liquor instead of grace, escape rather than reality, but it is a permissive, accepting, and inclusive fellowship. It is unshockable. It is democratic. You can tell people secrets and they usually don’t tell others or even want to. The bar flourishes not because most people are alcoholics, but because God has put into the human heart the desire to know and be known, to love and be loved, and so many seek a counterfeit at the price of a few beers.  ~ Bruce Larson

Abraham Lincoln Quote

"The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature. If I be in pain I wish to let you know it, and to ask your sympathy and assistance; and my pleasurable emotions also, I wish to communicate too and share with you..."

Abraham Lincoln, February 11, 1859

Ravi Zacharias on the definition of "atheism"...

...Atheism comes from literally the Greek "Alpha" the negative and "Theism" the word Theos for God, negative God, there is no God, that's what the word "Atheism" really means.

 It is not saying, "I do not think there is a God." It is not even saying, "I do not believe there is a God" it is affirming the non-existance of God, it affirms a negative. Now you know we don't need to take too long into that because anyone with an introductory course in philosophy recognizes that it is a logical contradiction, "How can you affirm a negative in the absolute?"

It would be like me saying to you, "there is no such thing as a white stone with black dots anywhere in all of the galaxies of this universe."  The only way I can affirm that is if I had unlimited knowledge of this universe!

So to affirm an absolute negative is self-defeating because what you are saying is, "I have infinite knowledge in order to say to you there is nobody with infinite knowledge."  Atheism as a system is self-defeating!

Bertrand Russell recognized that so he did a quick two-step on it, he moved to agnosticism. Agnosticism is very easy to defend, all you have to prove is that you don't know. Now you see agnosticism actually sounds rather sophisticated when it comes from the Greek, because the alpha is the negative and gnosko is "to know"  i.e "one who doesn't know" from the Latin it sounds much more uncomplementary because it literally is a one on one equation with being an ignoramus, "one who doesn't know" Agnosticism/ignoramus, same idea...