More Holiness Give Me: Great quote for a Sunday

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Great quote for a Sunday

Justine and I were watching the 2002 version of The Count of Monte Cristo movie last night. The old Priest jail friend told Edmund something about how to spend the money he was leaving him. He spoke of God. Edmund said,

"I don't believe in God..."

And on his death bed the old friend and Priest replied,

"It doesn't matter....... He believes in you."

I love that. Love, Love, Love.

I love that movie and really need to read the book.

And I really think James Caviezel is beeeeaaaaauuuutiful.

Also....

Today Rhett was helping me take somethings out to the garage and Kate asked me what he was doing. I told her and she said. "Aww. Rhett's a good boy." Little cutie. I also have only met one other child stubborner than her. Her big sister Kassidy. I am in for a ride! Again.

4 comments:

Terri Porter said...: Funny Susan, that movie is on my fireplace mantel waiting to go in the DVD player at this very moment. LOVE that movie!; September 19, 2011 at 7:01 AM
Jennifer said...: Yes, you MUST read the book. Quite different from the 2002 movie, however. Do read the unabridged version. Its themes of revenge and redemption will stay with you, plus you'll have bragging rights for making it through such a big book! When discussing this book at a book club I was surprised that different abridged versions left out so much of the intricate plotting -- as in, dismissing entire characters. Another movie has Richard Chamberlain as Edmund.; September 19, 2011 at 8:18 AM
Janetlee said...: I love that movie too, even if it isn't like the book.; September 19, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Michelle said...LOVE that movie! It's been sooooo long since I've read the book, I can't remember how they compare. And yes, Jim is very pretty :)

Nancy said...How have I missed that movie? I will have to borrow or rent it!; November 29, 2011 at 11:32 AM

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this. --Neal A. Maxwell

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

More Holiness Give Me

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Great quote for a Sunday

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