Sunday Inspiration

 

"We need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure."   - G.K. Chesterton

Sunday Inspiration

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"The vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud."

Sunday Inspiration

 

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." 

- Steve Jobs, 2005

Sunday Inspiration

 "We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least." - C.S. Lewis

Sunday Inspiration

"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place. . . . Give it, give it all, give it now. 

The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. . . . Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes."

- Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Sunday Inspiration

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love. 

 - Sir Francis Drake

Sunday Inspiration

"Everything is connected with everything else: but not all things are connected by the short and straight roads we expected." - C.S. Lewis

Sunday Inspiration

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."- Walt Whitman

Sunday Inspiration

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." 

- A.A. Milne

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Sunday Inspiration

We hold these truths to be self-evidence, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    - The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Sunday Inspiration

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." - Henry James

Sunday Inspiration

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."- George Eliot