[beboopy]

Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2

Moral of the story: Only the unrepentant are irredeemable.

Also, never trust a guy who thinks it's ok to abandon his family (xref Coco).

[cslewisquotes]

1. Turn off the Radio. 2. Read all the good books you can, and avoid nearly all magazines. 3. Always write (and read) with the ear, not the eye. You should hear every sentence you write as if it were being read aloud or spoken. If it does not sound nice, try again. 4. Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about…) 5. Take great pains to be clear. Remember that though you start by knowing what you mean, the reader doesn’t, and a single ill-chosen word may lead him to a total misunderstanding. In a story it is terribly easy just to forget that you have not told the reader something that he needs to know - the whole picture is so clear in your own mind that you forget that it isn’t the same in his. 6. When you give up a bit of work don’t (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think is my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier. 7. Don’t use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training. 8. Be sure you know the meaning (or meanings) of every word you use.

“To a Schoolgirl in America”, 14 December 1959, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis (via cslewisquotes)

[beboopy]

“For He shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper” — Psalm 72:12  The needy cries; what else can he do? His cry is heard of God; what else need he do? Let the needy reader take to crying at once, for this will be his wisdom. Do not cry in the ears of friends, for even if they can help you it is only because the LORD enables them. The nearest way is to go straight to God and let your cry come up before Him. Straightforward makes the best runner: run to the LORD and not to secondary causes. “Alas!” you cry, “I have no friend or helper.” So much the better; you can rely upon God in both capacities - as without supplies and without helpers. Make your double need your double plea. Even for temporal mercies you may wait upon God, for He careth for His children in these temporary concerns. As for spiritual necessities, which are the heaviest of all, the LORD will hear your cry and will deliver you and supply you. O poor friend, try your rich God. O helpless one, lean on His help. He has never failed me, and I am sure He will never fail you. Come as a beggar, and God will not refuse you help. Come with no plea but His grace. Jesus is King; will He let you perish of want? What! Did you forget this?  - Spurgeon

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Amy Carmichael

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Christ didn't come to make bad people good and good people better. He came to make dead people live.

Arthur Hsieh

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I repent in dust and ashes.

Rebecca, learn from the wise and the humble. Do not be puffed up by your knowledge or blinded in your passion. When you listen to those who are like you, weak and ignorant, or proud and foolish, imitate those who have tolerated and borne with you. Do you assume to be the source of true fellowship or knowledge? Humble yourself before God and submit to the Spirit; give honor to the weaker vessel. Do not presume to know what is in their hearts. Do not assume that you can prescribe the best advice. Do not be quick to point out the flaws in their motivations or thinking or feelings. Challenge their faith not by the harshness of your words, or the greatness of your anguish, but by the genuineness of your love, and by the supernatural humility of Christ. In everything, recognize that you know nothing and have the right to judge no one. Only, discern everything and test everything, especially yourself, so that you will no longer boast over the inadequacy of your neighbors, but only your own.

[beboopy]

It is always against the pitch blackness of our sin that the stars of God’s grace shine most brightly.

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:3

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“Remember, my hearer, that in the day of judgment thy account must be personal; God will not ask you what your church did – he will ask you what you did yourself.”

Spurgeon http://www.enduringword.com/commentaries/4025.htm

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Epiphany #4

Spiritual maturity has nothing to do with length of years or breadth of knowledge. It has all to do with depth of weakness.

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Epiphany #3

God often does not give me what I want until He gives me what I need.

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Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war, she waits the consummation of peace forevermore; till, with the vision glorious, her longing eyes are blest, and the great church victorious shall be the church at rest.

"The Church's One Foundation" - Samuel John Stone

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Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!

Psalm 27:14

[swordofthespirit]

“I was alone so you don’t have to be.”

[beboopy]

"I was cursed so that you could be blessed."

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

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"And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good." — Genesis 32:12

Oh, the force of that plea! [Jacob] was holding God to His word--"Thou saidst." The attribute of God's faithfulness is a splendid horn of the altar to lay hold upon; but the promise, which has in it the attribute and something more, is a yet mightier holdfast. If you have a divine promise, you need not plead it with an "if," you may urge it with certainty. The Lord meant to fulfill the promise, or He would not have given it. God does not give His words merely to quiet us, and to keep us hopeful for awhile with the intention of putting us off at last; but when He speaks, it is because He means to do as He has said. - Spurgeon

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"She bound the scarlet line in the window." — Joshua 2:21

Rahab depended for her preservation upon the promise of the spies, whom she looked upon as the representatives of the God of Israel. Her faith was simple and firm, but it was very obedient. To tie the scarlet line in the window was a very trivial act in itself, but she dared not run the risk of omitting it. Come, my soul, is there not here a lesson for thee? Hast thou been attentive to all thy Lord's will, even though some of His commands should seem non-essential? Hast thou observed in his own way the two ordinances of believers' baptism and the Lord's Supper? These neglected, argue much unloving disobedience in thy heart. Be henceforth in all things blameless, even to the tying of a thread, if that be matter of command. This act of Rahab sets forth a yet more solemn lesson. Have I implicitly trusted in the precious blood of Jesus? Have I tied the scarlet cord, as with a Gordian knot in my window, so that my trust can never be removed? Or can I look out towards the Dead Sea of my sins, or the Jerusalem of my hopes, without seeing the blood, and seeing all things in connection with its blessed power? The passer-by can see a cord of so conspicuous a colour, if it hangs from the window: it will be well for me if my life makes the efficacy of the atonement conspicuous to all onlookers. What is there to be ashamed of? Let men or devils gaze if they will, the blood is my boast and my song. My soul, there is One who will see that scarlet line, even when from weakness of faith thou canst not see it thyself; Jehovah, the Avenger, will see it and pass over thee. Jericho's walls fell flat: Rahab's house was on the wall, and yet it stood unmoved; my nature is built into the wall of humanity, and yet when destruction smites the race, I shall be secure. My soul, tie the scarlet thread in the window afresh, and rest in peace. - Spurgeon