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This was an interesting quote our pastor read in the fourth part of Liquid’s trashTalk series:

“A culture of complaint has infected American society…the truth is that some of these complaints are unfounded or else ignore offsetting blessings.”

I’m listening to an Andy Stanley series on the story of Joseph (Genesis 37-47) and heard this quote:
“The test of prosperity is passed by fewer people than the test of want and need.”

Good stuff.

I saw a misquoted version of this statement from John Muir yesterday at the supermarket on one of those re-usable grocery bags. It still spoke to me.

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
~John Muir

I heard this quote on Sunday and thought I would share:
“I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It’s almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.”
~Bono

“Our greatest woes result from the corruption of our highest good, e.g., speech, sex, technology, atomic
power.”
~Gordon J. Wenham

Control is an illusion.
~Paraphrase of Mare Cortese

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
~Esther de Waal, Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict

This dialogue in The Vampire Diaries caught my eye. I wanted to share. It’s about giving up and what I feel when faced with the impossible.

Stefan (vampire): “I’ve seen a lot of evil, Matt, more than you can imagine,” Stefan said. “I’ve even lived it. It’s always going to be a part of me, no matter how I fight it. Sometimes I think the whole human race is evil, much less my kind…I can’t tell you there’s a point or if things are ever going to turn out all right.” Stefan looked straight into Matt’s eyes and spoke deliberately. “But I’ve got another question for you. So what?”
Matt (human) stared. “So what?”
“Yeah, so what?”
“So what if the universe is evil and if nothing we do to try and change it can really make a difference?” Matt’s voice was gaining volume in disbelief.
“Yeah, so what?” Stefan leaned forward. “So what are you going to do, Matt, if every bad thing you’ve said is true? What are you going to do personally? Are you going to stop fighting and swim with the sharks?”
Matt was grasping the back of his chair. “What are you talking about?”
“You can do that, you know. Damon (evil vampire) says so all the time. You can join up with the evil side, the winning side. And nobody can really stop you, because the universe is that way, why shouldn’t we be that way too?”
“Like hell!” Matt exploded. His blue eyes were searing and he had half risen from his chair. “That’s Damon’s way, maybe! But just because it’s hopeless doesn’t mean it’s all right to stop fighting. Even if I knew it was hopeless, I’d still have to try. I have to try, damn it!”
“I know because I feel the same way,” Stefan continued. “There’s no excuse for giving up just because it looks like we’re going to lose. We have to try–because the other choice is surrender.”

“Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right.

But power isn’t happiness…”
~Connor Mead, Ghost of Girlfriends Past

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson