Verses and Quotes on Love

Happy Valentine's Day!  

Verses and Quotes on Love

 If we work upon marble, it will perish.  If we work upon brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust.  But, if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God, with love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. –Daniel

Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service and from solitude to kinship with all mankind. –Anonymous

Could we with ink the oceans fill and were the skies of parchment made and every stalk on earth quill and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the oceans dry, nor could that scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky. --Scribbled on an asylum wall, also found in the hymn “The Love of God” & inspired the movie Indescribable, –a good family friendly movie!

Love is the only service that power cannot command and money cannot buy. –Anonymous

What we love we grow to resemble. --Bernard of Clairvaux

The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure. --Bernard of Clairvaux

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. --Feodor Dostoevski

You will find as you look back on your life that the moments that stand out above everything else are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. --Henry Drummond

Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow; seek goodness in others, love more persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return.  The return, never fear, will take care of itself. –Drummond

Love is the purification of the heart from self.  It strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and worthier aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman courageous.  The power to love truly and devotedly is the highest gift with which a human being can be endowed. –Endsor

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. --John Knox

The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. --Saadia Ben Joseph

If the tender, profound, and sympathizing love, practiced and recommended by Jesus, were paramount in every heart, the loftiest and most glorious idea of human society would be realized, and little be wanting to make this world a kingdom of heaven. --Friedrick Wilhelm Krummacher

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. -La Rouchefoucauld

When any church will inscribe over its altars, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement for the substance of both law and gospel, "Thou shalt love the Lord the God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and "... thy neighbor as thyself," that church will I join with all my heart and soul. --Abraham Lincoln

Nor father or mother has loved you as God has, for it was that you might be happy when He gave His only Son.  When He bowed His head in the death hour, love solemnized its triumph; the sacrifice there was completed. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love can hope where reason would despair. –Lyttelton

If you neglect your love to your neighbor, in vain you profess your love to God; for by your love to God, the love to your neighbor is begotten, and by the love to your neighbor, your love to God is nourished. --Francis Quarles

They are the true disciples of Christ, not who know most, but who love most. --Frederich Spanheim the Elder

In math, if you divide an infinite number by any number, no matter how large, you still have an infinite quotient.  So Jesus' love, being infinite, even though it is divided up for every person on earth, is still infinitely poured out on each one of us! –Spurgeon

If you make doctrine the main thing, you are very likely to grow narrow-minded.  If you make your own experience the main thing, you will become gloomy and critical of others.  If you make ordinances the main thing, you will be apt to grow merely formal.  But you can never make too much of the living Christ Jesus.  Remember that all things else are for his sake.  Doctrines and ordinances are the planets, but Christ is the sun.  Get to love him best of all. –Spurgeon

I cannot bear it that we should love Jesus little.  It seems to me horrible.  Let us love him to the utmost.  Let us ask him to give us larger hearts, and to fire them with the flame that is in his own, that we may love him to the utmost possibilities of affection. –Spurgeon

The heart will commonly govern the head; and any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men; therefore, the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections.

-Waterland

1 Corinthians 13

 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 (NKJV)

De 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Matthew 22

 37 Jesus said to him," 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

 38 "This is the first and great commandment.

 39 "And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

 40 "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

 (NKJV)

Busy, busy, busy!!!!!!!

Long overdue update!!!!!

We purchased an OLD farm house on 12 acres the beginning of May in southern, MI.  It feels like we haven't stopped since then. We have been working on fixing it up.  We have gutted the oldest section of the plaster and lathe and we're redoing the wiring and insulating it, since it didn't have any.  We hope to have our current house on the housing market by Feb. as soon as we can tie up some loose ends on our remodel of the upstairs bathroom.  The Lord has blessed us mightily with our Church family and friends.  We are currently around 45 minutes from our Church.  When we move we will be closer to most of the families.  Unfortunateley I will have a further drive to work.  The upside to all of this is when we sell our house that we are currently living in.  We will be DEBT FREE!!!!!  Then we can start being more self sufficient with livestock and a much larger garden and an orchard of fruit trees.  It will take some time and money to build the infra-structure for our Hobby Farm.  Our end goal is for me coming home to a home based business.  I hope this finds you all well! 

In Christ<><
Tim

100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the TItanic

The time that this post (written by Kaleb) is posted marks the time 100 years ago that the Titanic struck the Iceberg.

Titanic

By Kaleb M. Cadle

On April 14, 1912 A large ship gracefully glided over the rough water of the Atlantic Ocean. It was near a dark and moonless night. The passengers slumbered in their cabins, while the captain and crew navigated the large ice flow before them. The air was silent and the sea was calm.

Then suddenly, the alarm was sounded. The Titanic was heading straight for a large iceberg! Quickly the officer on the bridge ordered that the wheel would be turned as far as it would go. He also sent an order to the engine room to reverse the engines. The iceberg moved closer, the ship started to turn, but it was to late!

The iceberg struck the Titanic’s starboard bow. Several chunks of ice fell onto the ship’s deck while the iceberg slid by. A couple minutes later, the ”unsinkable“ ship came to a halt. Many of the passengers awoke to see what had happened. On deck nothing looked amiss, but in the bottom things were very different.

When the iceberg struck, it left behind a large gash. When this had happened, a large noise like the firing of a canon had erupted through the lower decks. Water gushed in like a whirlwind and in twenty minutes had filled the mailroom, and was pouring into some of the forward holds and two of the boiler rooms.

The ships captain (Captain E. J. Smith) and the ships builder (Thomas Andrews) quickly moved down to the bottom of the ship. They rapidly inspected the damage the iceberg had done, and it was not good.

The Titanic’s hull was divided into many watertight compartments. The ship had been designed so that it could still float while only four of these compartments were full. But water was spewing into five compartments, and would eventually start filling the other compartments.

Andrews judged that the Titanic might last one hour, one and a half of an hour at most.

Then a light was seen in the distance, it could have been the Californian’s. Captain Smith immediately ordered the crew to fire up distress rockets, which would get the attention of the ship in the distance. The order was obeyed but the distant ship did not answer.

The Titanic desperately radioed for help. They reached many other ships, but they were to far away to reach them in time. They franticly radioed one ship (the Carpathia) that was not very distant. The Carpathia radioed back immediately that they were heading to the desperate Titanic’s location full steam. But would they be there in time.

After an hour most of the passengers still did not know the seriousness of the situation. Captain Smith however, knew everything about the situation, and he was worried. There were only barely enough lifeboats for half of the estimated 2,200 passengers. He tried to think up a solution, but he couldn’t find one that would leave enough boats for all the passengers.

He gave the order to start loading the lifeboats with the women and children first. The women and children were escorted to the Lifeboats, and after saying their emotional final farewells, reluctantly piled onto the boats. The boats were lowered down and then disappeared into the moonless night.

By 2:05 a.m. there were still more than 1,500 passengers on-board the sinking ship. All the lifeboats were gone and a stillness overtook the remaining passengers. The Titanic was now listing very badly, and water started to creep up the deck.

While the Titanic slowly sank below the waves John Harper, a pastor and a strong Christian preached to the passengers. The Titanic slowly sunk lower and lower beneath the water. John Harper spoke his last words as the quote ”unsinkable“ ship slipped beneath the waves.

The Carpathia arrived at the scene, but it was to late. Only 705 of the Titanic’s passengers remained in the lifeboats. Most of the men had drowned, or been eaten alive by sharks. The women and children were haunted for the rest of their lives by the memories of their deceased husbands and fathers.

The men who died that night of April 14 were true men. We should never forget these dead men’s stories of Chivalry and Courage. Those men sacrificed their lives, for the women and children instead of saving themselves. Never forget these mens’ legacies. Never forget that Women and Children are first.

   

     

This movie is showing one night only (March 27th) across the country!   You can look up theater locations in your area here .  Our family is looking forward to seeing this.

I Love This Book!

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour." --Matthew 5:43

"Love thy neighbour." Perhaps he rolls in riches, and thou art poor, and living in thy little cot side-by-side with his lordly mansion; thou seest every day his estates, his fine linen, and his sumptuous banquets; God has given him these gifts, covet not his wealth, and think no hard thoughts concerning him. Be content with thine own lot, if thou canst not better it, but do not look upon thy neighbour, and wish that he were as thyself. Love him, and then thou wilt not envy him.

Mayhap, on the other hand, thou art rich, and near thee reside the poor. Do not scorn to call them neighbour. Own that thou art bound to love them. The world calls them thy inferiors. In what are they inferior? They are far more thine equals than thine inferiors, for "God hath made of one blood all people that dwell upon the face of the earth." It is thy coat which is better than theirs, but thou art by no means better than they. They are men, and what art thou more than that? Take heed that thou love thy neighbour even though he be in rags, or sunken in the depths of poverty.

But, perhaps, you say, "I cannot love my neighbours, because for all I do they return ingratitude and contempt." So much the more room for the heroism of love. Wouldst thou be a feather-bed warrior, instead of bearing the rough fight of love? He who dares the most, shall win the most; and if rough be thy path of love, tread it boldly, still loving thy neighbours through thick and thin. Heap coals of fire on their heads, and if they be hard to please, seek not to please them, but to please thy Master; and remember if they spurn thy love, thy Master hath not spurned it, and thy deed is as acceptable to Him as if it had been acceptable to them. Love thy neighbour, for in so doing thou art following the footsteps of Christ" ~ "Morning and Evening Readings" by Charles Spurgeon

This was the morning reading today.  Awesome!  I love this book.  So many times it is just the right message that I need for the day. 

In Christ,
Lisa <><

Tiffany's editorial post

Tiffany has recently rebutted a letter to the editor from the Adrian MI Daily Telegram.
Below are copies of the letter to the editor that she was writing in response to, and hers. It is very nice to be able to get your voice heard out there with very little effort.  We all need to stand for Truth and have our voices heard about ALL the current issues that we are facing.  Letters to the editor are FREE and  usually pretty easy to write. While much of the media is liberal it is always nice to read the LTE page when there are conservative Christian values expressed.


In Christ <><
Tim

What we've been doing

Hello Everyone!


Sorry it has been rather dead around here for the last few months; the Holidays where busy, busy, busy! I’ll try to fill you in on the latest.

1. We have one new indoor cat and three new outdoor cats! The indoor one is a black male that was already neutered and declawed when he showed up around Thanksgiving. The vet says he is only about a year old, yet he seems to have already been through some rough scrapes. One of his ears is torn but nicely healed and his tail has had some damage as well. We named him Jackson (as in Stonewall Jackson!) The three outdoor ones are kittens (one female and two males) who showed up while we were putting up the Christmas lights. They are currently braving the winter out on our patio (not a hard feat with the strangely mild winter we’ve had)and go by the names of Nutmeg, Eggnog and Chestnut! (What can I say? It was Christmas time!) I took pictures of them to post but I can’t find the SD card. :-(

2. Mommy’s birthday was earlier this month, so we took some short day trips to celebrate. The first was up to Frankenmuth MI, the next to Columbus, OH, and the last to Fort Wayne, IN!

Other than that it has pretty much been home life as usual. Getting school work done, cleaning the house, building and keeping up fires in the wood burner and cook stove, and all the other elements of everyday life!

In Christ,

For the family,

Tiffany

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!


Hope you all have a great day!

“Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.” – William Bradford

Vision Forum has a great series of articles and a couple of video clips posted on Doug’s Blog! Be sure to check it out!!

In Christ,

For the Family,

Tiffany

Free Movie From ParentalRights.com & Up-Coming Offer

A new docudrama on the state of Parental Rights in America premiered online this past Thursday!  You can watch it online at http://www.overruledmovie.com/.  It is very well done and only 35 minutes long.  I hope everyone gets a chance to see it!

For anyone interested in the Teach Them Diligently conference this coming March, they are going to be offering their best deal of the year to everybody subscribed to their newsletter!  The admission is already amazingly low ($40 for the whole family), and they had a $25 deal earlier this year.  All you need to do is sign up for their newsletter here before November 22!

In Christ,
Tiffany

Cranberry Sauce

    I love to try new things!  Every so often I'll see something and ask myself if I can make it cheaper or better.  Sometimes it's just fun to try something new.  I was flipping through a Ball canning book and somehow decided I would can cranberry sauce this year.  I don't know why as it is not cheaper and I don't usually care to have much of it.  Everyone else in my family loves it on turkey sandwiches after Thanksgiving.
    I found out that making cranberry sauce is SO EASY and tastes MUCH BETTER than store bought.  The recipe had an option to spice it up with cinnamon and cloves in a cheese cloth bag.  I tried it and it came out so good; though this recipe was a little too sweet for me.  Next time I want to use Splenda or a little less sugar.  This recipe is from the "Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving" 

                                     Jellied Cranberry Sauce

             - 4 1/4 cups of cranberries                
             - 1 3/4 cups of water                                  
             - 2 cups of sugar                                         

             - (Opt.) 1 cinnamon stick broken into pieces and

               1 tsp. whole cloves tied in cheese cloth bag
              ( dispose of spice bag when cooking is complete)



1. Prepare canner, jars and lids (if canning).
2. In a large stainless steel saucepan, combine cranberries, water and optional spice bag if using.  Bring to boil over medium-high heat.  Reduce heat and boil gently, stirring occasionally, until skins burst (about 5 minutes). 
3. Working in batches, transfer cranberry mixture to a food mill or a food processor fitted with a metal blade and puree until smooth. 
4. Return cranberry puree to saucepan.  Add sugar and bring to boil over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.  Increase heat to high and boil hard until mixture begins to "sheet" from a metal spoon.  Remove from heat and test gel.  If gel stage has been reached, skim off foam. 

If Canning:
5. Ladle hot sauce into jars, leaving 1/4" headspace.  Wipe rim.  Center lid on jar.  Screw band down until resistance is met then increase to finger tight.
6. Place jars in canner, insuring they are completely covered in water.  Bring to a boil and process for 15 minutes.  Remove canner lid.  Wait 5 minutes, then remove jars, cool and store.

Tips from the book:
1. Fresh or frozen cranberries can be used in this recipe.  If using frozen, be sure to partially thaw cranberries in the refrigerator before getting started.
2.  To serve jellied sauce as a mold, pack sauce in straight sided canning jars.  To serve, hold jar under warm running water.  With a plastic spatula, loosen edges and tip jellied sauce on a serving plate.

    There is a lot of information online and many different recipes.  It is very easy, especially if you are not canning it.  If  not canning, you can refrigerate the sauce for up to 2 weeks or freeze 12 -18 months.  Fresh cranberries can be frozen for 12 months.  Some recipes use orange juice and other spices such as ginger, allspice, cardamom and nutmeg.  You can substitute different sweeteners and sweeten to taste.  I can't wait to experiment some more! 

                                            Blessings,
                                               Lisa