More quotes for today

From Mister Rodgers

The real issue is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some people have few and give them away.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today

You rarely have time for everything you want in life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully those choices come from a deep sense of who you are.

The thing I remember about sucessful people that I have met through the years is their obvious delight in what they are doing...and it seems very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they are doing, and they love it in front of others.

From Life Together with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone (131-2)

the expressed acknowleged sin has lost all its power (134)

It is not the experience of life but the experience of the cross that makes one a worthy hearer of confessions (137)

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another or it collapses. (96)

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone (85)

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but the strong cannot exists without the weak (108)

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. (111-112)