Quote of the Week

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“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is, limited in suffering and subject to sorrows and death, he had the courage to take his own medicine. Whatever the game he is playing at with his creation, he has kept his own rules, and he has played fair. He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He has himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money, to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. When he was a man, he played the man, he was born in poverty and died in disgrace, and he thought it all worthwhile. Hallelujah, what a Savior!”

Note: Zack Saint wanted this brought to the hospital where he was.

About Zack Saint

From: http://www.letu.edu/opencms/export/download/community-and-media/Spring06.pdf

ZACK SAINT

Sept. 17, 1983 – Feb. 3, 2006

Shortly over a month later, the university held another memorial service on Wednesday, Feb. 13, to mourn the loss of Zack Saint, 23, of Morgantown, Penn. Zack died Friday, Feb. 3, of leukemia, having successfully battled the disease as a child. Thirty LETU students were en route by car to Pennsylvania to say goodbye to the senior mechanical engineering major when they learned Zack was gone. Students and alumni from all over the country gathered in Zack’s hometown to comfort his family. One of his nurses came to know Christ through the example of Zack’s life and the prayers of Zack’s friends. Zack requested memorials be made to his senior design project, the LETU Powered Parachute Team. His family is also establishing a scholarship fund in his memory.

Note: I had Dr. Green (advisor to the Powered Parachute Team) as my professor for Fundamentals of Engineering Design (AKA Legos) class.

"As dad always reminds us, we're human beings not human doings. Our worth is not found in what we do, but in what God has done for us."

-- My sister Anna Lofgren on June 11, 2008

Genuine repentance does not turn from one sin while safeguarding others; partial repentance is as incongruous as partial pregnancy.

-- For the Love of God, Volume 2: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God's Word in the reflection on Isaiah 31 for the date of May 30

"His in-laws wonder why a Yale graduate isn't walking the ... halls of power. One reason may be White's frequent prayer that God 'would grant us a heart of wisdom to understand how little we know, and how much we still have to learn, ... The more we grow up in Christ, the more we will understand that the Christian life is not about mastering a body of knowledge, or even about achieving a level of self-sufficiency.

The Christian life is about learning to walk in a continual growing dependence on Jesus Christ

-- WORLD Magazine, Jan 26/Feb 2, 2008

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
--Martha Washington (from: Martha Washington quotes)

The moment you say no to God, something inside you says: "I'm no longer being filled now" ... and you have to begin the process of sanctification

One way to know you're filled with the Holy Spirit is when you just have a giant "Yes" in your heart to God.

-- Pastor Tony Butler on May 11, 2008, during Sunday School at Fountain of Grace.

To start off my "Quote of the week" series:

"If we cut off their tongues and forbid the Christians speech, they love with their hands, with their feet, and with their eyes, they love always and everywhere until their last respiration. Does anyone know how to take out the power of love from these stupid Christians?"

-- Romainian Prison Guard who found both his fulfillment and frustration in torturing Christians

(Quoted in When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships by Eric and Leslie Ludy page 83)