Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
~ unknown
When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.
~ Oswald Chambers
If you're going through Hell, don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
~ Goethe
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. Faith means believing the incredible, or it has no virtue at all.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Remember that the darkest hour only lasts 60 minutes
~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College
All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
Spiritual warfare isn't just casting out demons; it's Spirit-controlled thinking and attitudes.
~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
Two classes of human beings defy psychological categorizing and are full of surprises: Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
When you have exhausted all the possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
Doubt comes from a struggling mind. Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
~ Corrie Ten Boom
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When writing, be more or less specific
~ unknown
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor
You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
~ Ludwig Von Beethoven
Don`t cry yet; there`s still God!
~ Carissa Cooper
Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
I loved Christmas until I grew up and realized I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
Planting seeds inevitably changes my feelings about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.
~ unknown
Creativity is a way of living Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers
Poetry takes something that we know already and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet
"Maybe you've not yet tasted your favorite food" (regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven)
~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
~ unknown
a children's book is any book a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The best translation of the word "love" is the name Jesus; That will tell us everything about love we need to know.
"SING A SONG FOR AFRICA" was inspired by hearing stories of Kenya when my friend Lisa LaLonde returned from a trip there. She spent some time at the Stars For Jesus orphanage. Many of the boys there came from the streets. Three older boys, now young men, were able to come here to school in upstate New York. They are doing well and you see how God has touched their lives.
I began to think of those still stranded and lost along the dusty streets in Africa. They are homeless, parentless and hungry of heart and soul, wanting love and comfort. Some had parents who died of AIDS, or were captured into slavery or killed. I can imagine their tears and their hungry eyes and the emptiness of these abandoned children. They are lost flowers in the African sun. They are in need of water, the Waters of Heaven. Then they can blossom as they were meant to do.
So, I "SING A SONG FOR AFRICA."
jj young.
SING A SONG FOR AFRICA
There lies a flower
On the African soil
Hungry, thirsty
Torn from it’s roots
Alone and empty
Without water
Scattered to the wind
Across parched desert
Where there are many
Such flowers, crying
Keep on losing leaves,
dying.
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