Favorite Quotes!

[Liberty Hoffman]

"Sometimes we all must go through the darkest cave to find the brightest light."
-Jessy Ribordy of Falling Up

[Quinlin]

"Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection"

~Tagore

[Gildor_Inglorion]

"Keep lookin for the blinding light
Keep lookin for the reason why
Keep lookin for the sun to shine
And take me higher and higher"

-Switchfoot, The Blinding Light

“Christ will never be cool. Terrifying, life-changing, shocking, and iconoclastic, but never cool. Jesus is not my homeboy. The Gospel will always be “relevant” but never trendy.”

-Jon Foreman

“The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.”

-Jon Foreman

“Life on tour is very bipolar; highs and lows. Surrounded by people, but often alone. The same cycle everyday, but in a completely different city with completely different people. And I love it, you know, the excitement of playing the songs that I believe in. But in order to stay sane and grounded, I’m always trying to combine new experiences with something familiar. If I can look up, and look at the stars, I feel connected; I feel – at home.”

-Tim Foreman

But I'm not sentimental
This skin and bones is a rental
And no one makes it out alive

Until I die I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

This body's not my own
This world is not my own
But I can hear the sound
Of my heart beating out

On the final day I die
I want to hold my head up high
I want to tell You that i tried
To live it like a song

And when I reach the other side
I want to look You in the eye
And know that I've arrived
In a world where I belong

I still believe we can live forever
You and I we begin forever now
Forever now
Forever
I still believe in us together
You and I we're here together now
Together now
Together now
Forever now
Forever now

Forever


-Switchfoot, Where I Belong

Ok, that was loooong.... Sorry bout that... (That's only about half the song, by the way....)

[Ithilwen]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein


~Riella

[flambeau]

"I guess without wonder nothing can be wonderful." - Jon Foreman.

"What a blessing it is that God not only made nature beautiful, but that he allows us to recognize that beauty." - Josh Wilson.

"I'm pretty sure it's impossible not to be happy while listening to Christmas music." - Josh Wilson again.

"You have an awesome brain." - Lady Courage.

Dee, while watching Return of the King: "Ohhh, Legolas totally beats Aragorn in the battle of windblown hair!"

Dee, after I made a comment about all of the horses in Return of the King: "It's like Bonanza on steroids and with different headgear!"

--- flambeau

[Gildor_Inglorion]

Those are great, Flam!

(I especially love the LotR ones. )

[Liberty Hoffman]

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
-C. S. Lewis

[flambeau]

Okay, my family watched VDT tonight, and Dee was full of amusing comments. These are a few of the ones I remember...

Dee: "Edmund is unflingable!"

Me, talking to the movie: "Kind of a lame excuse, Caspian."
Dee: "He didn't have time to come up with another one; he was busy fixing his hair."

Caspian: "Both the swords are magical."
Dee: "Yeah, just wait till they start glowing blue; it's like they soaked them in Windex overnight!"

Caspian, about Eustace on Dragon Island: "And he wasn't the first!"
Dee: "He was dessert!"

Dee: "This reminds me of One Night With the King... or maybe The Emperor's New Groove... I keep mixing those up."

Lillandil: "You will need great courage."
Dee: "And maybe some scampi."

--- flambeau

[Lady Haleth]

Who in the universe halts when their enemy tells them to?

Meliara, Crown Duel.

[Elanor]

Oh my. I want to watch movies with Dee.

[Shadowlander]

*laughs mightily at Dee's comments on VDT* You two are funny! I agree with Elanor, I think it'd be a hoot to watch movies with ya'll!

[Gildor_Inglorion]

@Flam LOL, those are great! XD I really would love to watch movies with you two..... XD

[Liberty Hoffman]

LOL flam that cracked me up! I agree with ela - I'd love to watch movies with dee

Amy: [after seeing a funny video of Charlie] "PJ, you're gonna have to put that online so grandma can see it."
PJ: "Grandma knows how to go online?"
Amy: "PJ, you're gonna have to put that on a DVD so grandma can watch it."
PJ: "Grandma got a DVD player?"
Amy: "OK, PJ, you're just gonna have to go over to grandma's house and act it out for her."
-"Good Luck, Charlie" (TV show)

[Aslans_Jewel]

"Reformation may be its cure; and I could reform—I have strength yet for that—if—but where is the use of thinking of it, hampered, burdened, cursed as I am? Besides, since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may.”~Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre

"There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."~Douglas Adams

[wild rose]

As for His failing you, never dream of it—hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now should be trusted to the end

If angels’ visits are few and far between at ordinary times, they shall be frequent in our nights of tempest and tossing. Friends may drop from us when we are under pressure, but our intercourse with the inhabitants of the angelic world shall be more abundant; and in the strength of love-words, brought to us from the throne by the way of Jacob’s ladder, we shall be strong to do exploits. Dear reader, is this an hour of distress with you? Then ask for peculiar help.

See, then, the happy estate of a Christian! He has his best things last, and he therefore in this world receives his worst things first. But even his worst things are “afterward” good things, harsh ploughings yielding joyful harvests. Even now he grows rich by his losses, he rises by his falls, he lives by dying, and becomes full by being emptied. If, then, his grievous afflictions yield him so much peaceable fruit in this life, what shall be the full vintage of joy “afterwards” in heaven?

If his dark nights are as bright as the world’s days, what shall his days be? If even his starlight is more splendid than the sun, what must his sunlight be? If he can sing in a dungeon, how sweetly will he sing in heaven! If he can praise the Lord in the fires, how will he extol Him before the eternal throne! If evil be good to him now, what will the overflowing goodness of God be to him then?

Oh, blessed “afterward!” Who would not be a Christian? Who would not bear the present cross for the crown which cometh afterwards? But herein is work for patience, for the rest is not for today, nor the triumph for the present, but “afterward.” Wait, O soul, and let patience have her perfect work.

--All from Morning and Evening: Daily Readings, by Charles Spurgeon.

[Liberty Hoffman]

Jesse: "How come you're so good at that?"
Leslie: "Good at what?"
Jesse: "Building stuff. I mean, you're really good at it for a girl."
Leslie: "Same way I'm fast... for a girl."
Jesse: "You know what I mean."
Leslie: "You're pretty good at art, for a boy."
Jesse: "Okay, okay, truce."
-"Bridge To Terabithia" (movie, 2007)