I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. (Elbert Hubbard)
Do
not forget that you had no Christ and were excluded from membership of
Israel, aliens with no part in the covenants with their Promise; you
were immersed in this world, without hope and without God.
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. (Joseph Ratzinger)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. (Groucho Marx)
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.
In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. (Woody Allen)
