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on empty promises

2008-01-10T17:57:00.000-05:00

Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

on National Christianity

2007-04-04T01:43:00.000-05:00

"Illustrious Brendar"
(blog)

The practice of swearing on the Bible before taking the stand in court is only slightly more common than the practice of perjuring oneself there after. It cheapens the Bible to have someone who doesn’t value it devalue it by swearing on it and then lie. It cheapens the symbolic shininess of the 10 Commandments to have them aloft watching over the very systematic lawlessness of behavior of our Judiciary. It would be better, truer if you will, to leave the 10 Commandment out of it. It is people that are supposed to abide by divine law.

on Mystery

2007-04-01T21:29:00.000-05:00

Frank Herbert
Dune Series

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

on the Source of Happiness

2005-11-26T03:16:00.000-05:00

Robert Bellah
The Broken Covenant

“That happiness is to be attained through limitless acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to humankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.”

on Gratitude

2005-09-08T22:24:00.000-05:00

by Carter
(paraphrased)

"I dunno - I think that if you'd gone to New Orleans [before Katrina] you'd have found plenty of people who were thankful for those things. But now they don't have food, or clothing, or loved ones or homes. What are they thankful for now?

"If I'm gonna be thankful, I think I want it to be for something that can't be taken away."

on Peace in Installments

2005-07-10T22:46:00.000-05:00

If I Could Just Sit With You
by Mercy Me

when I cannot feel,
when my wounds don't heal
Lord I humbly kneel,
hidden in You

Lord, You are my life,
so I don't mind to die
just as long as I
am hidden in You

if I could just sit with You a while,
if You could just hold me
nothing can touch me though I'm wounded, though I die

if I could just sit with You a while,
I need You to hold me
moment by moment 'till forever passes by

on Isolation

2005-06-26T01:52:00.000-05:00

Professor Philip Zimbardo
Psychology, Stanford University

"I know of no more potent killer than isolation. There is no more destructive influence on physical and mental health than the isolation of you from me and us from them. It has been shown to be a central agent in the etiology of depression, paranoia, schizophrenia, rape, suicide, mass murder, and a wide variety of disease states."

on the Love of God

2005-06-25T15:44:00.000-05:00

Jealous Kind
by Jars of Clay

I built another temple to a stranger
I gave away my heart to the rushing wind
I set my course to run right into danger
Sought the company of fools instead of friends

You know I've been unfaithful - Lovers in lines
While you're turning over tables, with the rage of a jealous kind
I chose the gallows to the aisle, thought that love would never find
Hanging ropes will never keep you and your love of a jealous kind
Love of a jealous kind

Trying to jump away from rock that keeps on spreading
For solace in the shift of the sinking sand
I'd rather feel the pain all too familiar
Than to be broken by a lover I don't understand
'Cause I don't understand

One hundred other lovers, more, one hundred other altars
If I should slow my pace and finally subject me to grace
And love that shames the wise, betrays the heart's deceit and lies
And breaks the back of foolish pride

on Awakening

2005-06-25T11:20:00.000-05:00

Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. "

on "Something More"

2005-06-16T22:51:00.000-05:00

Victor Frankl
concentration camp survivor

"Man...finds identity in the extent to which he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a cause greater than himself."

on Relevance

2005-05-27T00:08:00.000-05:00

The Cross of Christ
by George McLeod

I simply argue that the cross be raised again
at the center of the market place
as well as on the steeple of the church,

I am recovering the claim that
Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral
between two candles:

But on a cross between two thieves;
on a town garbage heap;
At a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan
that they had to write His title
in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek...

And at the kind of place where cynics talk smut,
and thieves curse and soldiers gamble.

Because that is where He died,
and that is what He died about.
And that is where Christ's men ought to be,
and what church people ought to be about.

on the Urgent vs. the Important

2005-05-26T23:46:00.000-05:00

Strengthening Your Grip
by Charles R. Swindoll

. . . Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life. Oh, the urgent will really fight, claw and scream for attention. It will plead for our time and even make us think we've done the right thing by calming it's nerves. But the tragedy of it all is this: While you and I are putting out the fires of the urgentn (an everyday affair), the important was again left in a holding pattern. And interestingly the important is neither noisy nor demanding. Unlike the urgent, it patiently and quietly waits for us to realize its significance.

Forgetting the urgent for a few minutes, ask yourself what is really important to you. What do you consider "top priority" in your life? That is a big question, and maybe one you need some time to think about . . .

on Losers

2005-05-26T22:56:00.000-05:00

The Beautiful Letdown
by Switchfoot

it was a beautiful let down
when i crashed and burned
when i found myself alone unknown and hurt
it was a beautiful let down
the day i knew
that all the riches this world had to offer me
would never do

in a world full of bitter pain and bitter doubt
i was trying so hard to fit in, fit in,
until i found out
i don't belong here
i don't belong here
I will carry a cross and a song where I don't belong
but i don't belong

it was a beautiful let down
when you found me here
yeah for once in a blue moon i see everything clear
i'll be a beautiful let down
that's what i'll forever be
and though it may cost my soul
i'll sing for free
we're still chasin our tails and the rising sun
in our dark water planet
still spins in a race
where no one wins and no one's one

I don't belong here
I don't belong here
i'm gonna set sight and set sail for the kingdom come
Your kingdom come
won't you let me down yeah
let my foolish pride
forever let me down

easy living, not much like your name
easy dying, you look just about the same
won't you please take me off your list
easy living please come on and let me down

we are a beautiful let down,
painfully uncool,
the church of the dropouts
and losers and sinners and failures and the fools
oh what a beautiful let down
are we salt in the wound
let us sing one true tune

I don't belong here
I don't belong here
I don't belong here
Feels like I don't belong here
Let me down
Let me down
Feels like I'm let down
Let me down.
Cuz I don't belong here
Please
Won't you let me down?