Friday, September 26, 2008


Watch out! Be alert! Sometimes our greatest attributes can turn into our worst enemies.


Love is a choice available to us all. But few choose it. And of those who do, few endure its demands.


Free choice means God will not impose upon us His will. Churches do, but God won’t.


Our penchant for noticing ourselves and fulfilling our selfish needs does not correspond with our power to notice the goings-on in the vast universe, and it is especially derelict in its notice of the invisible.


Why is it that we use such a small portion of our capacities?


Is it any wonder that we don’t hear anything else when we listen to such loud, frantic music? Or detect anything else when we don’t pay attention to anything but the frenetic activity surrounding us?


What we choose to make the ruling fact of our existence determines what kind of being we are.


If you don’t take matters into your own hands and determine what your standards will be, circumstances will choose for you. You will then discover that you don’t like the choices.


The questions are often asked, but seldom answered: Who am I? What is my purpose here?


You will find that you will get more answers to your questions about life if you listen instead of talking so much.


Many people don’t listen when others are talking. They are merely preparing their next rebuttal.


Alas! Many people who will not change their minds in the light of new evidence, but assume that their evidence, which usually has a peculiar spin on it, is the only validity there is. Thus many are frozen and few are warm.


We have control over many things, but not everything.


Sacrifice is not loss, but gain.


In this life people are divided up into winners and losers. But in the eternal scheme of things the race is not to either, but to he who endures.
Our generation would do well to remember the poem of Rudyard Kipling entitled “IF.” It starts
out like this: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…,”

1 comment:

Lynette said...

Another great picture. Dandelion seeds can look so great when they're in a picture and not scattering all over your lawn or flowerbeds. And amen to the thought about the winners being those who endure and don't give up, even in those times when the going gets tougher than we like. Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" is one of my favorites, has great insights.