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The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life. - James L. Christensen

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart. - D.L. Moody

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it. - C.S. Lewis

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. - Samuel Adams

Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary causes in their proper place. -- John Calvin

CHARLES SPURGEON

1. It is not hard for the Lord to turn night into day. He that sends the clouds can as easily clear the skies. Let us be of good cheer. It is better farther on. Let us sing Hallelujah by anticipation.

2. A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

3. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

4. Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

5. By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

6. Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

7. Giving is true having.

8. I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

9. If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

10.It is not well to make great changes in old age.

11. Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

12. Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

13. No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

14. Of two evils, choose neither.

15. Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

16. We are all at times unconscious prophets.

17. You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

18. You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

19. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it”

Anonymous

1. Don’t confuse God’s patience with His final response

2. Been taken for granted?
Imagine how God feels

3. No one can ignore Jesus forever

4. Life – your only chance
Eternity – payback time

5. Luck has nothing to do with it

6. Have you made God smile today?

7. If it doesn’t lead to Jesus, it doesn’t lead to God

8. Uninspired by Jesus? Bet you’ve never met him!

9. If we can think and feel and love, our Maker can do all that and can do more

10. It will work out perfectly – if you let Jesus take control

11. Life: the time God gives you to determine how you will spend eternity

12. You think life is full of surprises? Wait till you die!

13. Jesus: He’s coming
Justice: It’s coming

14. Better to face the truth now, than after death

15. Find God. You were born to appreciate perfection

16. Pride is to character, like the attic to the house---the highest part, and
generally the most empty.


C. S. LEWIS

1. Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

2. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

3. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

4. I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

5. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

6. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

7. The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

8. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

9. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

10. You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

MAX LUCADO

1. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

2. Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

3. You change your life by changing your heart.

special semester

1. enrolled 12 units only
2. i've discovered last semester that i can read a transcription in 2-3 days
(how long would i take to finish the 49-page insurance notes?)
3. i am back into making my own codal and reading cases in the original
4. i can solve tax problems without copying from the CPAs (estate/donor)
(V-R shall be my constant date)
5. i attend ate Jazzie's nego class (i will take the exams too)
6. kuya Rex is back leading our BS group with the parables
7. new set of close friends from the 3rd year
8. the 3rd time with maam Yang-yang and maam Sagmit
9. sir Aportadera will give us an exam in legal forms
10. class project in Torts which will constitute as one exam
11. the semester will end on March

my confidence: God will see me through--praise His name forevermore

bitterness

details prove the intent to keep
those who are close know the narration
joy is not in the stories
as revealed they are memories of bitterness

it rooted from a perceived offense
expected to be healed by an apology
poor man, nobody thinks he owes you one
poor spirit don't withhold forgiveness

the truth, "sorry" will not mend the brokenness
forget it, life is not about you
restore the First Love and all else will just follow
let not an unforgiving heart poison you

live like today is the last
make friends, paths crossed for a purpose
give love, have it from above
share hope, fix your eyes on the cross

farewell to the unhappy thoughts
goodbye to the hurts of unreturned love
follow then, He modeled the unconditional
for sure, we can never outgive the Lord

trust His heart- Babbie Mason

All things work for our good
though sometimes we can't see how they could
struggles that break our hearts in two
sometimes blinds us to the truth

Our Father knows what's best for us
His ways are not our own
So when your pathway grows dim, and you just can't see Him
Remember you're never alone

God is too wise to be mistaken
God is too good to be unkind
So when you don't understand
When you don't see His plan
When you can't trace His hand
Trust His heart

He sees the master plan
And He holds our future in His hands
So don't live as those who have no hope
All our hope is found in Him

We see the present clearly
But He sees the first and the last
And like a tapestry He's weaving you and me to someday be just like Him

God is too wise to be mistaken
God is too good to be unkind
So when you don't understand
When you don't see His plan
When you can't trace His hand
Trust His heart

He alone is faithful and true
He alone knows what is best for you
So when you don't understand
When you don't see His plan
When you can't trace His hand trust His heart

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