When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.
~ Oswald Chambers
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet
Spiritual warfare isn't just casting out demons; it's Spirit-controlled thinking and attitudes.
~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
Doubt comes from a struggling mind. Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler
When writing, be more or less specific
~ unknown
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
~ Goethe
When you have exhausted all the possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
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
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
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
I loved Christmas until I grew up and realized I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
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
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
~ Corrie Ten Boom
"Maybe you've not yet tasted your favorite food" (regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven)
~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
Planting seeds inevitably changes my feelings about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
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
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
The best translation of the word "love" is the name Jesus; That will tell us everything about love we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis
Two classes of human beings defy psychological categorizing and are full of surprises: Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
~ unknown
Don`t cry yet; there`s still God!
~ Carissa Cooper
Remember that the darkest hour only lasts 60 minutes
~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
~ Henry Van Dyke
One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.
~ unknown
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you're going through Hell, don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The title of this piece was originally "THIS HEART OF MINE AND MAN." It was written to encompass the heart of man and I believe it still does. But as I worked on the poem it became more personal. I was depicting the state of man as a place I use to be in when I was an unbeliever. I saw God revealing the state of my own heart's condition and its ongoing struggles. So it became "THIS HEART." The daily warfare of the soul and of the heart is a personal battle. As we walk with Christ, we all struggle with this.
As with "JOHN'S DREAM," I am still deeply passionate about this very personal piece of writing.
jj young.
THIS HEART
Stone cold black coal
this heart
Murderous slanderous
this heart
Prideful deceitful
this heart
Boastful envious
this heart
Impatient judgmental
this heart
Malicious jealous
this heart
Lying cheat
this heart
Ungrateful unkind
this heart
Treacherous reckless
this heart
Selfish pleasure seeking
this heart
Violent fierce
this heart
Intolerant stubborn
this heart
Full of filthy rags
this heart.
Jesus
Is this not... the place... You found me?
Is this house... dirty... again?
Like a toad in a glass beaker
On a slow... burn... flame.
Cry... cry... cry
Mercy...
Cry... cry... cry
Mercy...
Father
Take this...
Stone cold black coal heart
Away from me
I don’t... want it... anymore
It’s getting... too dark... too dark
To see
Take this key... unlock the door
For this... gets... the best of me
This heart... it cries
For Thee.
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