Quotes for the Day - August 19, 2010

"It is all-important, not only in ordinary life, but preeminently in the pilgrimage of the spirit, to have fellowship with some kindred soul." ---F. B. Meyer

 
 

 

 

 
 
"A child's life has no dates; it is free, silent, dateless.  A child's life ought to be a child's life, full of simplicity." ---Oswald Chambers in Bringing Sons Into Glory

"The best theology makes us know that the world is the laboratory for God's purposes and that, because men and women, in spite of all of their sins, are made in God's image, they can share in the embodiment of these purposes.  They are part of history and history is the scene of the emergence of the new." ---Elton Trueblood in The Incendiary Fellowship






"The smartest people in the world are the ones who know how to be happy."  ---Hal Urban in Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

"In a general sense, self-discipline is the ability to regulate conduct by principle and judgment rather than impulse, desire, high pressure, or social custom.  It is basically the ability to subordinate. ---Richard S. Taylor in The Disciplined Life