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Friends

• Henri Nouwen
• Warren G Harding
  

Hope

• Max Lucado
  

Humor

Peace

• George Bernard Shaw
• Helen Keller
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• William Ury
  

Quotes by Author

Amy Carmichael

• God's presence
  

Ben Patterson

• Start with God no matter what mess your life is in
  

C. S. Lewis

• Lucy and Aslan in Prince Caspian
• No ordinary people
• Christianity does not want
• Crooked sticks
• If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy
• Different boy
• To easily pleased
  

George Bernard Shaw

• Peace, war
  

Henri Nouwen

• Friends, grief, pain

JI Packer

• God knows me
  

Max Lucado

• Hope as dependence on God
  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Friendship is not the outstretched hand
  

Warren G. Harding

• Friends, exile, family

God's Presence

My servant, I have come into the house --

I, who know pains extremity so well.

That there can never be the need to tell

His power to make the flesh and spirit quail.

Have I not felt the scourge, the thorn, the nail?

And I, his Conqueror, am in the house.

Let not your heart be troubled, do not fear.

Why shouldst thou, child of Mine, if I am here?

My touch will heal thy songbird's broken wing

And he shall have a braver song to sing.

Amy Carmichael

God knows me

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -- the fact that He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind . . . . He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted from me, no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

. . . There is tremendous relief in knowing that His to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on a prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

JI Packer
Knowing God

Friendship is not the outstretched hand

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Start with God no matter what mess your life may be

It is never as important to God where you are on the journey, as it is that you are indeed on the journey. Where you are going is what matters to God, not where you happen to be at the moment. You may start with God no matter what mess your life may be at the present time.

Ben Patterson

Waiting

Crooked Sticks

The good news of the Gospel is that God draws straigt lines with crooked sticks.

CS Lewis

No Ordinary People

It is a serious thing to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship or else a horror and a corruption such as you meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long, we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of those overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealing with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.

C. S. Lewis

Prince Caspian

"Lucy, he said, "we must not lie here for long. You have work in hand, and much time has been lost today."

"Yes, wasn't it a shame?" said Lucy. "I saw you all right. They wouldn't believe me. They're all so --"

From some where deep inside Aslan's body there came the faintest suggestion of a growl.

"I'm sorry," said Lucy, who understood some of his moods. "I didn't mean to start slanging the others. But it wasn't my fault anyway, was it?"

The Lion looked straight into her eyes.

"Oh, Aslan," said Lucy. "You don't mean it was? How could I -- I couldn't have left the others and come up to you alone, how could I?" Don't look at me like that . . . . oh well, I suppose I could. Yes, and it wouldn't have been alone, I know, not if I was with you. But what would have been the good?"

"You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right -- somehow? But how? Please Aslan! Am I not to know?"

"To know what would have happened child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that."

C.S. Lewis

To easily pleased

If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory

From dragon to boy

It would be nice and fairly true, to say that "from that time forth Eustace was a different boy." To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy

If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and help others do the same.

C.S. Lewis

Christianity Does Not Want....

Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is anyway possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere, he can be cured and made human again.

C.S. Lewis

Unpredictable Dependence on God

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks and be there in the flesh to see our reaction.

Max Lucado

God Came Near

Henri Nouwen

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reaily of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Biblical Quotes

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -- think about such things.

Philippians 4:8

George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Warren G Harding

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.