Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Some random quotes

Here's an observation from a friend about Christmas--"Isn't it funny that we honor the God who left it all to become poor for our sakes by giving each other motorized tie racks?"

I'll go one better--Isn't it ironic that Jesus left it all to become sin for us so that we can buy each other expensive gifts and ignore the hungry and poor in our midst? Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Here are your random quotes:

St. Francis of Assisi—“The safest remedy against the thousand snares and wiles of the enemy is spiritual joy.”

Mr. Holy-Man in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress—“There are two things that they have need to possess who go on pilgrimage—courage and an unspotted life. If they have not courage, they can never hold on their way; and if their lives be loose, they will make the very name of the pilgrim stink.”

“If you say that man is too little for God to speak to him, you must be very big to be able to judge.” Blaise Pascal

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” Ronald Reagan, 1989

John Wayne, as Davey Crockett in the movie, The Alamo—“There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around but you’re dead as a beaver hat.”

Thanks for reading!

2 comments:

Michael said...

Love the quotes Leo! Especially from JW.....I too laugh, in disgust, at how we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour by throwing away money on gifts for eachother when there are the cold and hungry out in our streets across the world. Maybe we can make strides, if even only in our own families, to do better.

Michael said...

Hey.....it's really late but I would be interested in your thoughts on an exchange I have been having with someone regarding Narnia. The blog is this: http://rhythms.blogs.com/.

The post is Selective Vision...then check out the comments. Would love to hear back from you.