Thoughts and Quotes of a Curious Mind

When I was locked inside my head When I was lost in a maze of doubt You called my name and woke me up You called my name and led me out And when I chased one more mirage 'Til I was tired and parched again You gave me one more cup to fill And sent me one more desert rain I'm alive, I'm on fire And my spirit burns with desire You set me alive, bright-eyed And with no way to hold it inside I wanted to thank You Thank You, thank You I was sure of all I knew I knew the world was mine to claim I had directions printed out And then I hit a wall of shame Out there alone and left to die Cut off from You, my sole supply You shed Your tears for me and then You took my hand and raised me high I'm alive, I'm on fire And my spirit burns with desire You set me alive, bright-eyed And with no way to hold it inside I wanted to thank You Thank You, thank You

Wish it could be easy Why is life so messy Why is pain a part of us There are days I feel like Nothing ever goes right Sometimes it just hurts so much But You're here You're real I know I can trust You Even when it hurts Even when it's hard Even when it all just falls apart I will run to You Cause I know that You are Lover of my soul Healer of my scars You steady my heart I'm not gonna worry I know that You got me Right inside the palm of your hand Each and every moment What's good and what gets broken Happens just the way that You plan And I will run to You You're my refuge in Your arms And I will sing to You Cause of everything You are You steady my heart 

He giveth more grace as our burdens grow greater, He sendeth more strength as our labors increase; To added afflictions He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials He multiplies peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half done, When we reach the end of our hoarded resources Our Father’s full giving is only begun. Fear not that thy need shall exceed His provision, Our God ever yearns His resources to share; Lean hard on the arm everlasting, availing; The Father both thee and thy load will upbear. His love has no limits, His grace has no measure, His power no boundary known unto men; For out of His infinite riches in Jesus He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again. ~Annie J. Flint

by   Eleanor Hull , 1912; this version was popularized by virtue of its place in the   English Hymnal Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, Be all else but naught to me, save that thou art; Be thou my best thought in the day and the night, Both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light. Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word, Be thou ever with me, and I with thee Lord; Be thou my great Father, and I thy true son; Be thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one. Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight; Be thou my whole armour, be thou my true might; Be thou my soul's shelter, be thou my strong tower: O raise thou me heavenward, great Power of my power. Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise: Be thou mine inheritance now and always; Be thou and thou only the first in my heart; O Sovereign of Heaven, my treasure thou art. High King of Heaven, thou Heaven's bright sun, O grant me its joys after victory is won!; Great heart of my own heart, whatever ...

There's a time to live And a time to die There's a time to laugh And a time to cry There's a time for war And a time for peace There's a hand to hold In the worst of these He is with you when your faith is dead And you can't even get out of bed Or your husband doesn't kiss you anymore He is with you when your baby's gone And your house is still and your heart's a stone Cryin' God, what'd you do that for? He is with you And he is with you in the ICU When the doctors don't know what to do And it scares you to the core He is with you We may weep for a time But joy will come in the morning The morning light He is with you when your kids are grown When there's too much space and you feel alone And you're worried if you got it right or wrong Yes he is with you when you've given up On ever finding your true love Someone who feels like home He is with you When nothing else is left And you take you final breath He is with you

We went sailing in the storm And it was harder than we dreamed But I believe that's what the promise is for To lose your life for another I've heard Is a good place to begin So when I lose my way, find me When I loose love's chains, bind me At the end of all my faith, till the end of all my days When I forget my name, remind me 'Cause we bear the light of the Son of Man So there's nothing left to fear So I'll walk with you in the shadowlands Till the shadows disappear

Lord God I have never spoken to you, But now I want to say how do you do, You see God they told me you don't exist, And like a fool I believed all this, Last night from a shell-hole I saw your sky, I figured right then they had told me a lie, Had I taken time to see the things you made, I'd have known they weren't calling a spade a spade, I wonder God if you'll take my hand, Somehow I fell that you'll understand, Funny I had to come to this hellish place, Before I had time to see your face, Well I guess there isn't much more to say, But I'm sure glad God that I met you today, I guess zero hour will soon be here, But I'm not afraid since I know you're near, The signal - Well God I'll have to go, I like you lots I want you to know, Look how this would be a horrible fight, Who knows I may come to your house tonight, Though I wasn't friendly to you before, I wonder God if you'd wait at your door, Look I'm crying I'm shedding tears...

First dentistry was painless; Then bicycles were chainless And carriages were horseless And many laws, enforceless. Next, cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless, Cigars were nicotineless And coffee, caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, The putting green was weedless, The college boy hatless, The proper diet, fatless, Now motor roads are dustless, The latest steel is rustless, Our tennis courts are sodless, Our new religions, godless. - Arthur Guiterman

"A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own." ( Letters of C. S. Lewis /1966, p. 277)

"One cannot see well except with the heart, The essential is invisible to the eyes. It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important" "That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man." "Language is the source of misunderstandings." "You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. " "People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for..." "You're lovely, but you're empty," he went on. "One couldn't die for you. Of course an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than you altogether, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass. Since she's the one I she...

The secret to success is to be like a duck: smooth and unruffled on the top, but paddling furiously underneath. We tend to use people and love things when we should be loving people and use things Everybody's friend is nobody The best mirror is an old friend A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though they know you are slightly cracked A real friend is one who walks in when the world walks out Friends are gods way of apologizing for our families

I will not go down under the ground 'Cause somebody tells me that death's coming 'round And I will not carry myself down to die When I go to my grave, my head will be high ~Bob Dylan Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce t...

Try not to be a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Imagination is more important than knowledge... It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the en...

Did you know that male fruit flies have toxic chemicals in their seminal fluid that inhibit the sperm of other males?

The rest of those who have gone before us Cannot steady the unreast of those to follow ~Finding Forrester Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to ~Mark Twain

T he human heart has hidden treasures In secret kept in silence sealed The thoughts the hopes the dreams the pleasures Whose charms were broken if revealed ~Charlotte Bronte

I read an interesting quote "All sunshine and no rain make a Desert" At first glance really not very interesting but it applied rather deeply to life. There has to be some pain and hard times because these are part of love, marriage and commitment. All sunshine and no rain make a Desert. It is through some of the hard times that people/couples grow closer and character develops.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah! From the canyons of the mind, We wander on and stumble blindly Through the often-tangled maze Of starless nights and sunless days, While asking for some kind of clue Or road to lead us to the truth, But who will answer? Side by side two people stand, Together vowing, hand-in-hand That love's imbedded in their hearts, But soon an empty feeling starts To overwhelm their hollow lives, And when they seek the hows and whys, Who will answer? On a strange and distant hill, A young man's lying very still. His arms will never hold his child, Because a bullet running wild Has struck him down. And now we cry, "Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?" But who will answer? High upon a lonely ledge, a figure teeters near the edge, And jeering crowds collect below To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!" But who will ask what led him To his private day of doom, And who will answer? (Chorus) If the soul is da...

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips. Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. ~Dc talk ~Brennan Manning [Be] daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony [you] are. To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace. To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, 'A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.' The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust—not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. ...suffering has often been the shortest path to...

Oh it's a mystery to me. We have a greed, with which we have agreed... and you think you have to want more than you need... until you have it all, you won't be free. Society, you're a crazy breed. I hope you're not lonely, without me. When you want more than you have, you think you need... and when you think more then you want, your thoughts begin to bleed. I think I need to find a bigger place... cause when you have more than you think, you need more space. Society, you're a crazy breed. I hope you're not lonely, without me. Society, crazy indeed... I hope you're not lonely, without me. There's those thinkin' more or less, less is more, but if less is more, how you keepin' score? It means for every point you make, your level drops. Kinda like you're startin' from the top... and you can't do that. Society, you're a crazy breed. I hope you're not lonely, without me. Society, crazy indeed... I hope you're not lon...