Peace

Peace doesn't come from what we hold, but by whom holds us. Hopefully Jesus.

Bookmarks

I will continue to add bookmarks or favorites to this blog post as I discover relevant ones. If you have any suggestions, feel free to send those to me and I will consider there relavance to this blog. If I feel they are as valuable as you, I will add them. Thanks!

Links, Bookmarks, etc. below

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Ponderisms

I used to eat a lot of  natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.   

Garden Rule: When  weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable  plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. 
  
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. 
  Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. 
  
In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. 
  
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? 
  
Who was the first person  to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangling things here and  drink whatever comes out?' 
  
Who was the first person to say, 'See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta  it.' 
  If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him? 
  Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when  you get undressed if he's going to look up there anyway? 

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup? 
  
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? 

Hope

A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. -- Martin Luther

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Great hopes make great men. -- Thomas Fuller

Hope for the best, with passion, conviction and faith. For when you do, you'll begin to see real, Workable ways to get there.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning.  You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world which surrounds you....  I can't imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.  The gift of hope is as big a gift as life itself. --Vaclav Havel

Hope is a risk that must be run. --Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) Novelist and polemicist

Hope knows not if fear speak truth, nor fear whether hope be not blind as she... --Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) Poet and critic

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. --Anonymous

Human nature has grounds for hope, because love, in a sense, is inexhaustible. --Steve Allen (1921-2000) Comedian

If it were not for hope, the heart would break. -- Author unknown

Instead of worrying about the worst that could happen, Allow yourself to hope for the best that can happen. In your mind, make the most positive outcome real.

My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.  -- M. Lloyd-Jones

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. -- Helen Keller

Replace your worry with hope. And fulfill your hope with action. Send positive thoughts to your most troubling situation. Soon you'll find yourself starting to act on those thoughts.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Philosopher

The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th U.S. President

The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) Architect

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara Kingsolver

There is no situation so desperate that it cannot Be turned around. Always, there is a place and a purpose for hope. Hope for the best, and let that hope push you forward. With hope in your heart, you're well on your way.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. -- William Shakespeare


"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." -- Alexander Dumas

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again." -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Whenever hope and illusion become the source of the will to live, all knowledge of reality becomes highly threatening, since at any time a new piece of information might remove the grounds for this hope. When life is motivated by hope for improvement, denial of reality is necessarily renewed and fortified. -- Christina Thurmer-Rohr

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable." -- Samuel Johnson

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." -- Alexander Dumas

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable." -- Samuel Johnson

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." -- Martin Luther

"A leader is a dealer in hope." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all." -- Emily Dickenson "Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope." -- Charles D. Brodhead

"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"We all hope for a –- must I say the word -– recipe, we all believe, however much we know we shouldn't, that maybe somebody's got the recipe and can show us how not to be sick, suffer and die." –- Nan Shin

We look at life in our frustration and say, "It is hopeless, I just have to learn to live with it." Jesus looks at life from the cross and said, "There is hope, there is no need to give up."

Hope is more than a feeling, it is a person -- the person of Jesus Christ.

Hope is the oxygen of the soul.  Just as air can be knocked out of a persons lungs by a sudden blow, hope can be knocked out of a persons soul by the blows of life.


Life may not be the party we hoped for .. but while we are here we might as well dance! --Unknown

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. --Charles Allen

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. --Samuel Smiles

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day. --Henri Nouwen

Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. They give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises. Romans 15:4 (NLT)


The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. --Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher

When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.

Great hopes make great men. --Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Historian

Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality. --Avery D. Miller