Sorry this ones small but it means a ton because my grandpa always said this when he was alive. I find it really funny!

Dust, is a protective coating for furniture~ My Grandfather

Okay, so my sister has been known to post some great status updates, and I wanted to post a few of my favorites...

"I look in the mirror and see all that I am; I look in a magazine and see all that I'm not; I look in God's Word and see all that I can be and how much He loves me, and I know that there's hope."

"Good people don't eat ice cream on a diet."

(all quotes courtesy of Dee.)

...Here's a few other good ones...

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." - Helen Keller.

"God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him." - Jonathan Edwards.

"Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live." - Bayard Taylor.

"Sin never begins where you think it does, and it never ends where you want it to." - My brother-in-law/pastor.

...And this next one is random, but it made me laugh really hard this afternoon...

"I'm like a chicken that gets cooked and then has the skin peeled off." - My nephew, talking about how he doesn't get suntanned; he gets sunburned.

--- flambeau

"We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love."

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

"We are all angels with only one wing… we can fly only by embracing each other."

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you're going down."

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." ~C. S. Lewis

"If you're looking for someone to teach you about religion... don't come here. I just argue. And blow up stuff." -- narnianerd.

"Oh heavens. Birthday minions on the rampage." -- The Rose-Tree Dryad, to me, on my birthday.

~Riella

First, a couple of funny ones:

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than to curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms.

Small dogs were always found in large houses, and vice versa. Clients who said 'spare no expense', never paid their bills, ever. If I asked my way in the Dales and was told 'you can't miss it', I knew I'd soon be hopelessly lost.

James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small.

And now a more serious one, that almost makes me cry:

She will remember your heart, and all the things you said and didn't say, when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. Of all the unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is . . . and love

Schemedrick the Magician, in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn (book)

"Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, and the end of joy may be grief."
-Proverbs 14:12-13

"A friend is always loyal, a brother is born to help in time of need."
-Proverbs 17:17

Ah, these posts were a deliciously fun thing to read! I don't have a lot of favorite quotes, and most of them are from unknown sources , but here are a few .

Guns don't kill people, people kill people - Unknown

God's answers are always wiser then our prayers - Unknown

When you're with God, thing don't fall apart, they fall into place - Myself

We all have 3 adresses memorized:
1) Your own
2) Your bestfriend's address
3) P. Sherman Wallaby Way Sydney... - Facebook Likes

When the going gets tough, the tough get going - Unknown

We adore the ones that ignore us, and ignore the ones that adore us - Facebook Likes

If you can't say anything nice, don't say nothing at all - Bambi

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - Unknown

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Einstein

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. -Einstein

"Life is a journey, not so much to a destination, but a transformation. Looking back doesn't it sometimes feel like our richest times come right in the midst of our hardest? But God made us to live in community, to laugh and cry. To hurt and to celebrate with each other, no matter what were going through. And transformation is tough, and we don't always end up where we think we will. But we have to remember, that even when we struggle, to believe in Him. He always believes in us. He fills our lives with purpose and passion, if we just let Him. And the best part of the journey, is that the God of the universe, sometimes allows us to play a part in changing the world. Isn't that a trip?"
-Chris Vaughn, "To Save A Life" (movie, 2009)

"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him."

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet."

"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down."

"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

We adore the ones that ignore us, and ignore the ones that adore us - Facebook Likes

I like this one! So often true.

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

Thanks for sharing this one, Miss R, I really love it.

[quote="St. Augustine from his Confessions":ktmr3ivu]Amidst such desires I suffered most bitter troubles, but your mercy was so much the greater according as you let nothing prove sweet to me that was apart from yourself

Such is the benefit from my confessions, not of what I have been, but of what I am, that I may confess this not only before you in secret exultation with trembling and in secret sorrow with hope, but also in the ears of believing sons of men, partakers of my joy and sharers in my mortality, my fellow citizens and pilgrims with me, those who go before me and those who follow me, and those who are companions on my journey...

And...another one from Andrew Peterson.

Here we toil and we till the hard earth, where even the warm times with friend and kin are lonely because we know they won't last long enough to quiet the ache. Our sadness points to Home the way hunger points to the feast, the way the light of the cratered moon is always facing the sun, always pointing to where the dawn will come like a pillar of fire when this rock we walk on turns again to burning day. All over the quiet plains and the cold stone cities full of dying and shame the promise is not drowned out by the weeping; it is declared by it.

"You make me beautiful
You make me stand in awe
You look inside my heart
And I am amazed
I love to hear You say
Who I am is quite enough
You make me worthy of love
And beautiful..."
-"Beautiful" by Bethany Dillon

I found a few new ones.

To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death - Taylor Swift

(Part of the same quote above) Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright…That’s FEARLESS - Taylor Swift

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them - Walt Disney

Believe you can and you're halfway there - Theodore Roosevelt

A successful man is one who can build a foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him - David Brinkley

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure - George Edward Woodberry

I couldn't wait for success. So I went ahead without it - Jonathan Winters

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate - George Burns

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on - Thomas Jefferson

In seeking wisdom, thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool - Lord Chesterton

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair--
Relient K, "Be My Escape"

All my life I wish I broke mirrors
Instead of promises
Cause all I see
Is a shattered conscience staring right back at me--
Owl City, "Tidal Wave"

Sometimes the hardest thing to believe is the truth--
Relient K, "The Truth"

He is the hope
He is the peace
That can make this life complete
For every man, woman, boy and girl
Looking for heaven in the real world--
Steven Curtis Chapman, "Heaven in the Real World"

'Cause when its always winter
But never Christmas
Sometimes it feels like you're not with us
But deep inside our hearts we know
That you are here and we will not lose hope--
Relient K, "In Like a Lion (Always Winter)"

I love you and that's what you
Are getting yourself into--
Relient K, "Getting into You"

In life or death, God
We belong to You--
Steven Curtis Chapman, "Yours"

You're standing on the verge of a miracle
Just waiting to be believed in
Open your eyes and see
You're on the verge of a miracle--
Rich Mullins, "Verge of a Miracle"

I want to see miracles
To see the world change
I wrestled the angel
For more than a name
For more than a feeling
For more than a cause
I'm singing Spirit, take me up in arms with you
And you're raising the dead in me . . .--
Switchfoot, "Twenty-Four"

I love quotes so much! ...it's close to addiction, really... and there's lots good ones in this thread!! Here's some from "Real life" people

(we're gonna have nicknames for some of these people, to keep things as un-confused as possible )

"I was there when you evolved! ... You were a cute little cell." --camp's 16yr old boy lifeguard 'arguing' with another friend about who was older. (he was joking though, I mean he doesn't believe in evolution like that, lol)

"I'm busy storing up treasures ... leave me alone!" --my older sister about people texting you when you're busy (helping with tornado stuff at the time)

"My punch is like a tricycle wreck." --boy in the youth group

"That's B.A.D." "No, that's a F." --a youth minister and a friend talking about a spelling test grade. (yepp, it was a he friend. How did you know?? )

"I'm studying my eyelids." --another boy in the youth group, when asked if he was going to sleep in class.

"Let me just ask you to think outside your head for a minute..." --a preacher friend

"Unknown sings everything!!" --Our little cousin and us

"All work and no play makes a person a dull person." --Mama

"Oh well. It's just [lifeguard] and [his 13yr old cousin]. If they're not impressed already, they never will be." --sister (Is my hair ok?)

"I don't have to know a song to know the...never mind." --lifeguard (knowing the words to a bad song...or just know it's bad?)

"'I don't have time for this...I'm expanding my brain. And you're not in it.'" -- a preacher wife's advise to sister about boys/college

"It's dripping outside." --my little brother (it was raining )

"Conquer temptation before it conquers you." --from a devo a friend (we're gonna call him JW ) did at a lock-in

"His blood type is Ragu. That's how much he likes pizza." --another preacher friend about JW

"Always put God and His commandments first and you will conquer peer-pressure." --from a devo another friend (TS) did at the same lock-in

"PERFECT LOVE. PERFECT OBEDIENCE. PERFECT SACRIFICE. PERFECT SUFFERING." --sermon points from a friend about Jesus' example

"Sorry yall, but God gave me the best life. You have the second best." --one of my fb statuses

Why did Jesus go through all the torture? Because "He had an unselfish love & was thinking about YOU." --JW

Some back from when we went to see VDT:
"Ok, so let me get this straight. The rat went to heaven??" --JW

"*sniff* The rat's gone." --JW (when Reep crested the wave at the end)

Hmm... *taps fingers rhythmically*

Oh, I love this one ....

"Shut up." --lifeguard. we say it's his way of say 'I love you'

--cg ♥
sorry it's so long...It won't happen again!