Quotation Saturday

FAITH

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
~B.C. Forbes

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine. 
~Henry S. Haskins

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
~Author Unknown
 
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
~Victor Hugo

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us.
~W. Ralph Ward

BOLDNESS

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
 
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. 
~Francis Bacon

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
~Michel de Montaigne, translated
 
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
~Theodore Roosevelt

IGNORANCE

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
~Steve Polyak
 
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
~Norman Juster

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
~Mark Twain

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~P.J. O'Rourke

THE WICKED

Gen. 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
 
Ex. 23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
 
2 Sam. 4: 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
 
2 Sam 22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

RIGHTEOUS

1 Tim 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
 
Phil 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
 
Tit. 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
 
Rev. 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

Wicked Wednesday

Isa. 14: 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
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Well I’m finding it’s a writers dream out there. There’s a market that is surging with promise and hope. I call it the Wicked Market. The market is in for witches, thanks to Harry Potter, and vampires and werewolves thanks to Twilight. A market that has taken over the world and brought out the dark evil force that lies deep within everyone’s psyche.

Well I’ve had a run in with this ‘dark force’ but most would just call it a stroke of bad luck, bad timing, whatever they want to call it. Me, I call it a dark force. It has blossomed with the advent of the tales. And as some might say, “Oh they’re just fictional stories”, “They’re not real!” Some might even believe that in their minds.

I wonder if the Wiccan religion is finding a surge in residency? I wonder if Harry Potter has made that religion a laughing stock or enabled them to remain in control of their growth and squelch those ‘non-believers’ who feel their religion is just  fiction or un-real!

I come from a world where my God created heaven and hell. And as many people would like to think that when He created hell, He left it in a silent slumber until the return of heaven on earth? Isn't that just silly?

Many books have been written on the matter, many have slapped my Jesus in the face boldly, thank you Dan Brown. And many writers have made a mockery of the very evil that keeps us being a hateful, ignorant, and selfish society. We relish our own vanity and there is no room for God or the impending doom that He will wreak on us. But then again does man care? Of course not.

Many a t.v. shows have beautified the darkness, blew it up to cosmetic proportions, and have left some of us Christians wondering just how quickly He will return to wipe all the smirks off of their faces.

I remember as a kid watching Bewitched and it fascinated me so much that *I* wanted to be a witch. I went to the library and read all about REAL witchery and come to find out, the witches that CHARMED the pants off of people, are witches! The Witches of Eastwick, are witches! The phoniness, or fictionalizing, comes in when they get cosmetically enhanced men and women to bring the story all the falsity that it needs, but in the end, there are men and women who actually fell for the deviants work and succumbed.

Just so you know, where there is DARK there is Light. There is no in between. Sure the Bible was written thousands of years ago, but God has not and will not change the demands, covenants, LAWS that He made on us humans! He is the same as he was in the beginning, now and ever shall be, world without end, amen, AMEN!

Job 18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Something Wicked this way Comes

Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
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Something Wicked this way Comes...

Just so you know, I write spiritual stuff. I embrace the light and everything that means to you and me. I try my darnedest to walk in an upright manner sharing and giving love where it might lack. But as for my writing, now that’s a totally different story. (Pardon the pun.)

Most of the time when I’m writing a short story, I start off with my heroine as this upstanding epitome of the highest perfection, then as I’m sitting there writing, something takes over my character and things start to happen. It is as if she has been overcome by the dark force and then my story heads down a path of unknown.

A discussion began in the f2k class when a woman asked if she was the only one where her ‘people’ seem to take charge and the story basically writes itself or is written by these people (aka characters.) Many of us writers piped in to assure her that not only do our characters claim full reign but that what we had intended on the story being took a turn somewhere along the line and we came up with something utterly different than what we proposed the story line to be about.

I’m wondering if this ghost that takes over is our conscious turning off the internal editor. You see, we all write with the internal editor on. We backtrack every paragraph, we spellcheck a page, we’re constantly checking for consistencies and inconsistencies. With that mind, remember, you lose something along the way. You’re so worried about everything being right, you miss the point of where you went wrong.

As writers we can not try so hard that we lose sight of the story. I’m telling you, when you try to write a story, when you try to get it perfect, when you keep trying so hard to make everything right, it is at this point that you’ve lost the basis of your story. You’ve allowed the characters to quiet down and hide in the shadows. You have essentially put tape over their mouth’s and you, the writer creator of the work, has taken over to make your work perfect.

Guess what? Nobody is perfect! I bet that was enlightening wasn’t it? You need to put tape over your brain! ha ha. Turn the internal editor off. Don’t tell me, but, but, but it is too hard. Tell me, okay I will and see what kind of story you write. You’re characters will come out of the shadows, they will become people who are shaped by your fingers but their conscious. They will carry an air of mystery with them as good verses evil challenge each other to a duel. The characters will become people, no longer cardboard cut-outs. Living breathing entities.

In essence, something wicked this way comes.