Peterson tagged me to post five of my favorite quotes. This will just be five that I really love and could locate quickly online. I have such a difficult time choosing favorites of anything. Thanks for the tag, Peterson.
(1) from LOTR-Two Towers
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for
(2)from "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell
"A Christian doesn't avoid the questions; a Christian embraces them. In fact, to truly pursue the living God, we have to see the need for questions."
(3)another from Rob Bell and "Velvet Elvis"
"What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth. Poverty, injustice, suffering- they are all hells on earth and as Christians we oppose them with all our energies."
(4)C.S. Lewis
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
(5)Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
I tag: Jay, Chris, Norm!, Brady, and Timothy
love and grace,
pam
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9 comments:
sweet. very nice, very nice
Lovin' the LOTR quote and of course the Velvet Elvis!!
Love it. I'll have to think about it and get back to ya with mine.
Uh-oh, Pam gave me homework. :)
Golly, I really should crack open a book once awhile. I'm afraid a lot mine are going to be TV/movie quotes.
Homework is done, Ms. Ferguson. That was fun. :)
Yay! I was hoping I'd get tagged. :) Great quotes, by the way.
CAROL!! I should have tagged you as well! If you come back and check this...well...you're tagged!
Timothy: Can't wait to see yours. I have you on bloglines...so i'll catch up to them when you put them up.
Jay: Goody! Glad you are going to play!
T_Mac: About to take a look....I can't WAIT to read sex god. Our youth minister read it...loved it.
OH my gosh!! Just watching that clip....it IS like drew! hilarious!
Thanks guys!
pam
The LOTR ones is my fav!
pomo: it's always been one of my favorites too....to the point that when i'm feeling down, i think back to that scene of the movie, and it encourages me...
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