J-Live Quotes
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.
Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.
God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time.
If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.
Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.
When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.
It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.
Too many people today want a brotherly worldin which they can remain unbrotherly
I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace--'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'.
We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'.
We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.
Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.
If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19
I used to only write poetry
All human happiness or misery takes the form of action
Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.
Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.
There are days you live through
God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.
I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.
Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.”That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?
Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.
The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.
The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.
I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out of events that seem inexplicable.
An arrogant rich and a humble poor both need help! The former needs help to be human
Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.
He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.
In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace?
There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.
Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.
How can I help this son of mine see when I can't see? The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?
Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.
We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted.
Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.
And it's the 'Word of God' that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, 'that makes the eyes see', the body full of light.
I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.
Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done.
Some people will always talk no matter what you do or say
It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.
This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.
That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.