Work Quote

Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt Labor Day speech,
Sept. 7, 1903, Syracuse, New York.

(T. Roosevelt is one of our favorite men of all time.)

Free People Are Not Equal

Olivia is working on a Political Science Class that she is going to teach this fall. While working on her research this morning she came across this quote, I just LOVE it! She has also posted it on her blog, Heart of a Southerner.

Free people are not equal
and equal people are not free.

Government has nothing to give anybody

except what it first takes from somebody,
and a government that is BIG enough
to give you everything you want,
is big enough to take away everything you've got.


~ Lawrence W. Reed
Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

This week I am reading Mom's Who Changed the World to my daughters. As they become older I find that I need to keep encouraging them even more to stay focused and remember why God created them. They are women, not men. They will be helpmeets one day (we pray). They both have very strong, independent personalties, which can be good if it is channeled in the right direction. After all, it will take courage and independence to stand against the culture and seek to live a holy life. It will take determination to submit to their husband, birth children and be a keeper at home (Titus 2:5), while the world (even Christians) tell them they are wasting their lives away serving their husband and children.

Today we are learning about Susanna Wesley. I just love this quote from her son, John Wesley:

I learned more about Christianity from my mother
than from all the theologians of England.

What a high calling and responsibility we have as mothers. The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the nation.

Morality

Christians should not simply reflect the morality of their era
but the morality of the Bible.
~John Piper

Romans 12:2,
“Do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”

Joy is not gush:
joy is not jolliness.

Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will,
because the soul delights itself in God himself...
rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else.

Bow down your heads and your hearts before God,
and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.

Commemoration of Amy Carmichael,
Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951

I love this quote!

"Gratitude spanks anxiety. Being thankful wipes out whining. And, the Apostle Paul promised that when we don't grumble and complain, we light things up for the world around us." Light it up!

Bill Heid
protogrow.com

“Make us masters of ourselves
that we may be the servants of others.”
Sir Alexander Patterson

I read this quote on Amy's Humble Musings today. I think I'll will put this on my screen saver for the week!