"They" said it first..."they" said it better

I like quotes...ok, I really like quotes. My philsophy about quotes is: Why try to say something myself if someone else has already said it better?

I know the blog posts have been fairly short and infrequent recently...I hope to remedy this soon. But for now, enjoy some current favorite quotes to ponder.

"Someone asked me, 'Why do you go there?' (meaning the mission field). I said 'God takes your heart and puts it there. Either you follow your heart or live without it.'" --Missionary John Leonard

"Whatever you are...Be a good one." --Abe Lincoln

"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."--C.S. Lewis

"God does it and man sings it. God speaks and a hymn is the mysical echo of His voice."-- A.W. Tozer

"There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone, the light remains." --Anonymous

"Outside of the resurrection of Jesus, I do not know of any other hope for this world."--Konrad Adenauer


Each of these provides enough to mentally "chew on" for a while. The next time I post quotes, they will be of a lighthearted nature. ;-)

Sacrifice

I love this quote. It provides much to contemplate.

"For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word in such a view, and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice." ---David Livingstone

(found in the book Desiring God)