Random quotes to ponder
Posted: August 4th, 2009, 10:19 am
by Pastor Gary
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum to the women and men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Re: Random quotes to ponder
Posted: August 4th, 2009, 11:14 am
by paul
Pastor Gary wrote:"If you want to build a ship, don't drum to the women and men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Have pondered them all so many times and still ponder them over and over to one degree or the other.
Posted: August 4th, 2009, 11:57 am
by dolfan
Hmmmm. Not that I disagree. I don't think you can. But, it's one of those things that makes you go 'hmmmm.' What do you do about that? How do you go about it? Or, more to the point --- what is it you really, rock bottom, yearn for? I suppose if you can just get that down to something specific, you can actually start doing it. What is our vast and endless sea? And let's spare platitudes and generalities as much as we can (I know it really is hard).
I'll take a stab:
I would like to live in a community where a few people are actually doing the following things: loving neighbors, giving immediate and long-term and complete aid to the poor, widow, sick, orphan, and visiting the prisoners, all because Jesus said to do it and because He was killed for being serious about it.