If you were to hang a motto in your home, what would it say?
If you were given $100,000 to celebrate someone or something, who or what would you celebrate?
If you were to fast-forward your life five years, where would you be and what would you be doing? What changes would people see in you?
If you could take back something you said in 2009, what would it be?
If you were going to a costume party next week, what costume would you wear?
If you could grant any three wishes to one person, to whom would you grant them? Why?
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
~ in Past and Present
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires,
~ in”The Opera”, Necessity and Free Will
In books lies the soul of the whole past time; the articulate, audible voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. Read more
If you could be any age for the rest of your life, what age would you choose? Why?
My daughter was four years old and being put to bed by my wife. My little princess began her regular nightly practice of asking theological questions. My son did this when he was her age, because he learned that it was a good way to milk extra minutes before having to go to sleep. Our daughters questions seemed to be more genuine, but given the depravity of man, who knows.
“Mom, why did Jesus die in Texas.”
“Baby, he didn’t die in Texas. Why would you think that?”
“Because when you prayed you said he died in our place. Isn’t Texas our place?”
It made me think of a story that my mother used to tell. She had been to a Vacation Bible School clinic and one of the seminar leaders had told them that they needed to be very careful with the language they used with children. According to this worker, when you sing that Zachaeus was a wee little man and hold your hands about 10 inches apart, children think that Zachaeus was about 10 inches tall. “Phaw.” My mother wasn’t going to believe that nonsense, and told the worker that.
One week later, we were at a Wednesday night prayer meeting and I was coloring in a coloring book.
“Mom, what color is the devil.”
“Kevin, there is no devil in your coloring book.”
“Yes there is.”
“Here, let me see that . . . . . Kevin, that isn’t the devil, that is a fox.”
And I began to sing to her, “The devil is a sly old fox, if I could catch him, I’d put him in a box.”
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
~ Francis Chichester
Quem metuunt oderunt, quem quisque odit periise expetit. [Whom men fear, they hate; whom a man hates he wishes dead.]
~ Quintus Ennius, in Ex fabulis incertis
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
~ Kahlil Gibran
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
~Howard Hendricks
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The man bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
~ Talmud, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah to 2, 3
Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
~ Unknown
The fear of God can deliver from the fear of man.
~ Unknown
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