December 2010
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conamorelucy asked: Merry Christmas! :)
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution
– Robert F. Kennedy
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at...
– Helen Keller
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What Hath God Wrought
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book! Daniel Walker Howe is a superb writer and an even better historian. Honestly, I was a bit skeptical about reading this book as I thought that there wasn’t much there to keep my interest. I was surely mistaken once I started reading. DWH does an excellent job of...
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As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down...
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (via thywordistruth)
How to Find ANYTHING on the Internet →
It’s sad that I didnt know a lot of these tips seeing how I spend most of my life on the internet. These might be helpful to you at work or when you are just cruising the internet for fun.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and...
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via jesuslovesdesign)
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
– Oscar Wilde (via fullofgraceemptyofdoubt)
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will...
– Marcus Aurelius (via lyncea)
2:44
jesuslovesdesign:
Had the privilege to deliver a sleeper sofa to a family that needed it today. Thank you to the generous people that provided it, and thank you to the family that needed and felt comfortable making their need known.
The community at Harbor is a beautiful one :)
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human...
– — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Daily Meditations from His Letters, Writings, and Sermons)
Just witnessed a guy on the train give up his seat so that a woman (who was completely rude and irrational to the conductor and other passengers) could sit down. The rudeness stopped and she quietly sat there till she got off. That’s how you kill someone with kindness.
Rosa Parks
This is a day old, but just an amazing bit of history.
americannodes:
55 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery (Alabama) municipal bus.
Her actions started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, lasting just over a year and catapulting Martin Luther King, Jr. into the national spotlight.
Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11...