Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Crist, even when I can't see the way ahead. - Oswald Chambers

Agape is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill toward all men. Agape is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level, you love all men not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, but you love them because God loves them. - Martin Luther

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That"s relativity. - Albert Einstein

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. - Matthew Arnold

To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle

And I--who am I? Am I the scientist, the observer? Am I the one who has been given the chance to get a glimpse of life from the outside? From a point of view made up of equal parts of loneliness and objectivity? Or am i only pathetic? - Peter Hoeg

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. - Stendhal

I want to see a "Sound of Music" where the entire Von Trapp family dies... - Nathan Lane

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." - Sydney J. Harris

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

If we are going to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious. in other words, we must stop using religion as if it were some kind of a lofty lifestyle--we must be spiritually real. - Oswald Chambers

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Anonymous

The Bible characters stumbled over their strong points, never their weak ones. - Oswald Chambers

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? - Eugene Kennedy

And I shall find some girl perhaps,/And a better one than you,/With eyes as wise, but kindlier,/And lips as soft, but true,/And I daresay she will do. - Rupert Brooke

I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. - Isaiah 42:16

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can"t have too many friends because then you"re just not really friends. - Truman Capote

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. - 1 Corinthians 2:14

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man"s self. - Francis Bacon

The one who loves the least controls the relationship. - Anonymous

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - unkown

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. - Francis Bacon

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. - Pam Brown

You don"t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. - Anonymous

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo

Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. - Revelation 22:20.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. - Anna Louise Strong

"Oh, you ca'n't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." - Lewis Carrol

If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. - Thomas Jefferson

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky. - Rainer Rilke

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. - Henry Emerson Fosdick

Here above all else is what each one of us needs in the battle of life a heart that has come to rest in God a will fully surrendered. That is the great secret.... That alone will bring us through with honor. - James Stewart