It's very important to take God seriously. I think its also very important to take ourselves a whole lot less seriously. - Gloria Gaither

Christmas Quotes

Wise men still seek Him
-not sure of author

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is Christmas in the heart, that puts Christmas in the air.
-W.T. Ellis

Love is what's in the room with you at Christms if you stop opening presents and listen.
-a 7 year old named Benny

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. -Burton Hillis

The Crist-child stood at Mary's knee,
His hair was like a crown,
And all the flowers looked up at Him
And all the stars looked down.
-G.K. Chesterton

Now I wake me up to work;
I pray the Lord I may not shirk.
If I should die before the night,
I pray the Lord my work's alright.
Amen. - Jack London (propably anyway)

Forgotten Authors

Winners never quit. Quitters never win.

The least of man's original eminations is better than the best of a borrowed thought.

All it takes for an eagle to bound is for good men to do nothing.

(to God) I need your love to make it right. You're my hope for tomorrow, tonight. - Steve Grace.

May green be the grass you walk on.
May blue be the skies above you.
May pure be the joy that surrounds you.
May true be the hearts that love you.
-Old Irish blessing.

My eyes fell on this excerpt while I was reading yesterday.

"All my life I've had a fascination with what's written on grave markers. (I call it Charlie's cemetery collection.) Some are pensive, others provocative. Many are solemn, but a few of them are humorous. My favorite? On a small country church tombstone someone had carved the poem:

As you are now
So once was I
As I am now
You soon will be.
Prepare to die
And follow me.

Somber, for sure. But some wag had scratched under the heavy verse:

To follow you I'm not content
Until I know which way you went."

By Susan Florence

There is music in all hearts, if we listen we can hear each other's song.

The beauty of living is in loving.

Tis not the years that make us grow, but the challenges.

Today's Quotes

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire.
Gearge Matthew Adams

Absolutely tender,
Absolutely true,
Understanding all things,
Understanding you;
Infinitely loving,
exquisitely near,
This is God our Father.
What have we to fear?

from CSSM choruses