Category: QUOTATIONS

LOVE…

April 12, 2026

LOVE, 1st Corinthians 13

4Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. 5It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into account a wrong endured. 6It does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. 7Love bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening].  

13And now there remain: faith [abiding trust in God and His promises], hope [confident expectation of eternal salvation], love [unselfish love for others growing out of God’s love for me], these three [the choicest graces]; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13

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“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.”

Pablo Neruda

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Literary humor about Love:

Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet On the Western Front, years ago made this analysis:  “American novel–two people want each other from the beginning but don’t get each other until the end.  French novel–two people get together right at the beginning, but from then on don’t want each other anymore.  Russian novel–two people don’t want each other or get each other, and for the next 800 pages they brood about it.”

 

Busy Living While Alive

March 19, 2026

I do not want to just sit around and wish for heaven.

Joni Eareckson

Joni Eareckson Tada is an American evangelical Christian author, radio host, artist, and founder of Joni PTL, Joni and Friends, an organization “accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community”. Wikipedia

One Purpose of Art ~

March 14, 2026

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste.

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954. Wikipedia

Hope with Confidence, Wait Expectantly

March 14, 2026

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those who fear Him [and worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and obedience],

On those who hope [confidently] in His compassion and lovingkindness,

To rescue their lives from death

And keep them alive in famine.

We wait [expectantly] for the LORD;

He is our help and our shield.

For in Him our heart rejoices,

Because we trust [lean on, rely on, and are confident] in His holy name.

Let Your [steadfast] lovingkindness, O LORD, be upon us,

In proportion as we have hoped in You.

Psalm 33:18-22 Amplified Bible

Miracles

March 13, 2026

But a miracle is a miracle–the sign of God.

Boris Pasternak

I don’t know about other people, but just about everyday I receive a miracle–they might seem small to some, but to me they’re Grande-size…I know I’m a beloved daughter of the true and HUGE GOD!

~ Cale

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak’s first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Wikipedia

Don’t Do This…

March 12, 2026

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Fulton Oursler

Charles Fulton Oursler Sr. was an American journalist, playwright, editor and writer. Writing as Anthony Abbot, he was an author of mysteries and detective fiction. His son was the journalist and author Will Oursler. Wikipedia

Grief

March 10, 2026

Grief is for the strong, who use it as fuel for burning.

Lauren Groff, “Fates and Furies”

Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written five novels and two short story collections, including Delicate Edible Birds, Fates and Furies, Matrix, The Vaster Wilds, and Brawler. She was named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME in 2024. Wikipedia

“The Weight of Water”*

March 9, 2026

Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

Anita Shreve, from her book–*The Weight of Water

Of all the fiction I’ve read in over 60 years, this line is so personal that I wish I’d writen it. ~ Cale