Quotes that have meaning to me.....

"A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart." --Charles Finney

"I believe the reason there are so many dysfunctional Christians out there is not because we're failing to get our acts together and start living right. It’s because we are trying to get our acts together and start living right!" --Joel Brueseke

"Any mixing of law and grace...whether blatantly legalistic or subtly 'balanced' is nothing other than a denial of the finished work of Christ...and bondage." --Anonymous

"The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church." --Michael Yaconelli

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." --Bertrand Russell

“In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth; God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.” --A.W. Tozer

"Courage is grace under pressure." --Ernest Hemingway

"The underlying foundation of all religion is performance – whether it’s a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It’s all religious performance, and God isn’t impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith." --Steve McVey

"Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that's not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything." --Colossians 2:8-10 (The Message)

"People say "If you take the law off me then I can just go out and commit adultery." They are not getting the revelation of the message of grace; they are getting a revelation of the adultery that is in their hearts." --Rob Rufus

"Great spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein

"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." --Mary Pettibone Poole

"God spreads grace like a 4 year-old spreads peanut butter - He gets it all over everything." --Mark Lowrey

"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly." --Matthew 11:29-30 (The Message)

"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves." --DL Moody

"Real, natural learning is in the living. It's in the observing, the questioning, the examining, the pondering, the analyzing, the watching, the reading, the DO-ing, the living, the breathing, the loving, the JOY. It's in the joy." --Anne Ohman

“Education…is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” -John Dewey

"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” --St. Francis of Assisi

"I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen." --C.S. Lewis

"The unanswered questions aren't nearly as dangerous as the unquestioned answers." --Unknown

"It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society, but to make society." --John Holt

"In general, I do believe we spend so much time fretting over where to park, when God wants us to know that He owns the whole dang parking lot...!" --Dena Brehm

"Religion: Man's manipulative attempt to control people in the name of God." --Heather Q.

Once when John Holt (the father of unschooling) was speaking to a school audience, describing his views on the their structured curriculum, a student asked him, "But surely there must be something important enough that everyone should learn it?" He thought for a moment and replied, "To learn to say 'I'm sorry', 'I don't know', and 'I was wrong'."

"Just as Christ did not have to sin in order to be made sin, we must do nothing righteous in order to be made righteous." --Rob Rufus

"The Lord will keep you from every kind of harm. He will watch over your life. The Lord will watch over your life no matter where you go, both now and forever." Psalm 121:7-8 (New International Reader's Version)

"They must find it difficult...
Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority." --Gerald Massey

Grace isn't cheap. Grace is FREE!

"No man knows how bad he is until he tries very hard to be good" -- C.S. Lewis

"Do you know why everyone outside the Church views the Church as hypocrites, and blasphemes Jesus Christ? Because there are people who boast in a law they cannot keep and lay it on people's backs who cannot keep it." --Matthew Campbell

"The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score." --Wayne Jacobsen

"Education is not so much the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats

"A knowledgable man knows he has limited knowledge." --Unknown

"Cause if you want to be one of His, Got to act like one of us. Cloneliness is next to Godliness, right?" --Steve Taylor

"What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." --Unknown

"Just 'cause you're right - that don't mean I'm wrong." --The Outfield

"If not now, then when? If not here, then where? If not this way, then what way?" --Unknown

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain

"You have to stand for what you believe in. And sometimes you have to stand alone." --Queen Latifah

"I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be." --Albert Einstein

"I learn by going where I have to go." --Theodore Roethke

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." --Unknown

"It's not what you gather, but where you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived." --Unknown