TFTD - Freedom of the soul

“May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.” 

                                                                                               - St Therese of Lisieux -

TFTD - what a wonderful world

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."

                                                                                        - Albert Schweitz -

TFTD - Let Him carry you

"He that takes his cares on himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast my cares on God; he has bidden me; they cannot burden him."

                                                                           - Joseph Hall - 

TFTD - An infinite God, infinite love

"An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.  He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others."

                                                                   - A. W. Tozer -

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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

                                                                               - Winston Churchill -

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"Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer."

                                                                                

                                                                     - Oswald Chambers -

TFTD - the value of values

“We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.”

                                                                - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks -

TFTD - worth remembering

"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."

                                                                - Plato -

TFTD - an answer, just not the one you expect

"People who are in the habit of praying- and they include the mystics of the Christian tradition- know that when a prayer is answered, it is never answered in a way that you expect."

                                                                                   - Kathleen Norris -

TFTD - the name of love

“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” 

                                                                                             - Henri J.M. Nouwen -

TFTD - Think big

"Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings."

                                                                                     - Phillips Brooks -

TFTD - pleasing, delighted in, loved

"To please God...to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness...to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delight in, as an artist delights in this work or a father in a son...it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which your thoughts can hardly sustain.  But it is so!"

                                                                                               - C. S. Lewis -

TFTD - A little less conversation, a little more action please

"He preaches well who lives well.  That's all the divinity I know."

                                                                                      - Miguel de Cervantes -

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The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again.  Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury.  And you re-hurt yourself.  The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand." 

                                                                                   - Norman Vincent Peale -                                    

TFTD - the extravagant gardener

"The love of God is like the Amazon River flowing down to water one daisy."

                                                                                                      - Unknown -

TFTD - plus ca change...

"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our willingness to change. So let's not complain."

                                                                     - Paulo Coleho -

TFTD - Love wins

“If we want hell, 
if we want heaven, 
they are ours. 

That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced. 
It always leaves room for the other to decide. 
God says yes, 
we can have what we want, 
because love wins.” 


                                                                       - Rob Bell, Love Wins -

TFTD - To love, to be loved, to be made divine

"The gift of the Holy Spirit closes the gap between the life of God and ours.  When we allow the love of God to move in us we can no longer distinguish ours and his; he becomes us, he lives us.  It is the first fruits of the Spirit, the beginning of our being made divine."

                                                                                                    - Austin Farrer -

TFTD - Dare to hope

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes."

                                                                                       - Clement of Alexandria -

TFTD - thank you

"There is power in gratitude to heal us spiritually, emotionally, and relationally."

                                                                                                      - Kerry & Chris Shook -