When groups of seemingly disparate people defect and band together in the way of Jesus, they form what we might call ‘unterror cells'. They secretly plot detonations of hope. They quietly conspire to set off explosions of spontaneous kindness. They plan gentle coup d' etats to replace regimes of domination and oppression with movements of empowerment and service. In a complete overthrow of violent terrorism, they fly airplanes of generosity into towers of need and plant improvised encouragement devices by roadsides and in neighbourhoods everywhere, seeking God's kingdom and God's equity.
Brian McClaren, Everything Must Change
There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.
Robert Browning
Now peacemaking is a divine work. For peace means reconciliation and God is the author of peace and of reconciliation. … It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the particular blessing which attaches to peacemakers is that ‘they shall be called sons of God'. For they are seeking to do what their Father has done, loving people with his love.
John R. W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount
No man knows how bad he is till he had tried very hard to be good.
C S Lewis, Mere Christianity
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The QWERTY keyboard layout was devised and created in the 1860s by the creator of the first modern typewriter, Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor who lived in Milwaukee.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday – and all is well.
Anon
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.
Edward Berckman
Churches are places where pains are released and wounds healed.
Qamar Rafiq
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected become the expected?
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
If you try to fail but succeed, which have you done?
Is it possible to be totally partial?
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
When we are reading, we often find something that attracts our interest, It's not earth shattering, or life changing. But it's worth cutting out and keeping, or sticking on the refrigerator door; or maybe sending to us for this page!
We invite all our readers to contribute news items, quotes, or poems, that make you say 'hmm'. It could be in today's paper, or in a book hundreds of years old.
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