Christmas Thoughts

          

 I wish you from the bottom of my heart a New Year filled with kindliest benedictions

Al Thiery

HERE ARE A FEW QUOTES FOR 

 “SPIRITUAL THINKERS”

Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence; to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him, by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.

                                                                                                                     ... François Fénelon

Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church. ...                                                               Joy Davidman,

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.                                                                                  ... Roger Williams

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.                                                                 ... Meister Eckhart

There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much is bad and meaningless. The Christian answer is that this is a good world gone wrong, but with a memory of what it should have been.       ... Kathryn Lindskoog

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.                                                      -Billy Graham

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!