Quotations
Saturday, October 06, 2007
In the midst of preparing for Os, how about doing English exercises?
I have made up my mind to tackle argumentative essays rather than rather a story based on a single word for Os, something which I can't really do well, so I rather not take the risk.
Well, that means I need to increase my general knowledge in order to score for that component, damn, I feel like I'm doing a General Paper.
Wikiquote is sure helpful when it comes to searching for quotes, rather than searching blindly using Search Engines.
Mere Christianity
Imagine yourself as a living house.
God comes in to rebuild that house.
At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing.
He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.
But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense.
What on earth is He up to?
The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of — throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards.
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace.
He intends to come and live in it Himself.
The Four Loves
Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: "We give thanks to thee for thy great glory."
Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection — if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
C.S Lewis
Ain't that cool? Hearing those words from a Man of God, hearing those words of wisdom, those knowledge, those understanding.
These words are not something said to wow people and show off how much they know and understand, it was meant to convey messages to the people out there. These words said are meant to teach the people out there.
Sometimes it's really hard to define the true meaning of love. Every one has their own interpretation of this most commonly used word.
What happened to all those marriages where they vowed to love each other till death do them apart and ended up in divorce? What happened to all those relationships where they claimed that they would love each other forever and ever, and ended up breaking up, ended up drowning themselves in sorrow and tears? What is true love?
How exactly should we define love? Is it something which makes you you or something which breaks you? The success of love is in the loving- it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what they have done.
No one can define love, for only God can. He first loved us, and there is no other place best to learn about love other than the bible, the Word of God. [ 1 Corinthians 13 ]
The lines between true love, infatuation, puppy-love, crush, have all been blurred throughout the generations. What can be done to restore them that the lines may become thick and visible? Seriously, nothing on a large scale, but effective on to an individual.
Go and think about it: What is love to you? How do you define love? Is there any difference between love, crushes and infatuation?
My my, studying puts me in the thinking mode.
Labels: Daily rant
posted by Rod @ 6:19 PM,
