The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven) 

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
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

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers

My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison

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

Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi

Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe

Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle
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

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
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler

Jesse's Poems

DIFFERENT PAGE, DIFFERENT BOOK

I live on another page
In a different book
With a different cover
With another look

The words I read
Are not the same
Mixed and scattered
Under a different name

Is there any right
This life I live
Tried to touch love
Tried to give

When it's all said and done
Is there any mercy to come
When the day's slip away
When this time is done


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