"Remember your Creator before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the spring is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed."_Ecclesiastes 12:6
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." "then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you." _Jeremiah 29:11-12
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple._1 Corinthians 3:16-17
"After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire came a gentle whisper."_ 1 Kings 19:12
Gradually watching her lose her memory of places, tasks, faces of loved ones. So tragic it felt like losing the person before she dies.
"Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength." _ Nehemiah 8:10
A person who is trusted with something must show that he is worthy of that trust. He must prove to be faithful.
A good conversation that sends pleasant disagreement with heaps of laughter, must not be without chocolate. _ rose a. villaruz
"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."
Salt is a most essential ingredient of the body. In their order of importance, oxygen, water, salt and potassium rank as the primary elements for the survival of the human body.
“The beauty of the world ... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” (A Room of One’s Own)_ Virginia Woolf
Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to stick to a long term success plan and so easy to be derailed by things that only provide momentary pleasure?
"Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time." And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him." _ Acts 13:11
"Few of our own failures are fatal. This may be true, but we certainly don't act like it."
"I am here in great distress and with great physical strain, and have no friends of any kind, nor do I want them; and I do not have enough time to eat as much as I need; my joy and my sorrow/my repose are these discomforts."
Myths and prejudices surrounding black cats varies from culture to culture. Though synonymous with bad luck, mischief or vileness, black cats to some means good omen and are viewed favorably.
How can this feeling be so overwhelming like the sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all?
A person’s temperaments and general behaviors often are related to the content of the disturbance of thought.
"A fool gives vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control."_ Proverbs 29:11
"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!" _ Isaiah 52:7
My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" _ Psalms 42:3
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." _ Galatians 5:22-23
"Return to dust, you mortals." "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night."