How did man get the way he is today?
- 10.15.2009
- Article Number: 14
| | For me, one of the most important things to come to grips with is our ultimate beginnings. How did man get to be the way he is today? What was man’s purpose from the beginning? If a person does not understand this, he will struggle with his whole life and interpretation of life's events and purposes. If we go back to the very beginning, man was made for a functioning union with God. This is never just an option, like a hobby for the “religious” human. It is the way man is made, and without it he is not fully functioning as a human unless he totally embraces and is wrapped in a Love greater than his own. |
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Finding Love
- 05.18.2009
- Article Number: 13
| Have you ever found yourself wondering what this life is all about. Why are we here? How does it all work? Who is working the buttons and levers behind the scenes, behind what we can see? What are you here for? Why are you doing what you doing, when so much of it seems like a repetitive waste of time? These and many other questions like them, sometimes bug me.
When that happens I often take a walk along a nature trail near my home, and try to make sense of it all. Not so easy, but it does help to clear my head, and frame the questions I really have versus just the ones I don't have the answers tot he questions. You understand, not all questions are equally valuable. But others are questions I have a deep desire to be answered. Are you like that too?
Well this morning, it happened again, and I came away with fresh perspective about what are core issues for my life. I was reminded that God love's me and wants me to experience sharing love, so I'll know his pleasure in loving me. After all why should this humungous BIG GOD bother about me, never mind actually notice me, want good things for me and want to love me!!
It's like intimacy, it answers question you can't even articulate, but you know your needs that have been pushing you, have been satisfied. I can't explain it, but intimacy with God just does that for me, leaving me at peace, feeling Okay with Him and the universe for a while. Cool. |
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More Love Quotes
- 12.23.2008
- Article Number: 11
| "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." Moses (Deut. 6:5).
"You can't love God without having faith in Him, & you certainly can't have faith in Him without loving Him."
"I don't love the Lord any more on Sunday than I do every other day of the week! I worship Him everyday!"
"Our best belongs to our Beloved. Second-rate gifts are an offence to love."
"You don't have to understand God in order to love Him!"
"To love God and love the Truth are one and the same."
"Never give someone 'all your love'
Save it for the Lord Above."
"A part of our love for God has to be a healthy respect & fear of Him, & when we are sinful or have done something wrong, to really be afraid of the consequences, but yet to know He still loves us."
"God's answers to the problems of today as well as to the problems of the past have always been so simple, so childlike, so easy that many could not even believe it!
That the simple love for God & each other can solve all of our problems."
"It doesn't matter a damn bit where you worship, here or in Jerusalem, in a church or out of church, under the trees or in the nearest bar or bawdy house, as long as you worship God in your heart, in spirit, in truth & in love."
"God created you to enjoy the life He's given you & to love & enjoy Him forever & to try to help others to do the same."
Quotes from the Bible about Love.
Psalm 16:8 I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalm 42:1 As the deer panteth after the water brooks, so pants my soul after Thee.
Psalm 91.14 Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known My Name.
Matthew 22:37,38 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. This is the first and great commandment.
John 6:68,69 Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the Words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
John 14:21 He that has My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me: and he that loves Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will reveal Myself to him.
John 16:27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.
I Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of Him.
I JOhn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not difficult. |
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Favorite Love Quotes
- 12.10.2008
- Article Number: 10
| Favorite Love Quotes
Love quotes inspire people to press on thru life despite the hardships. Here are some favorite love quotes.
'Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.'
Mahatma Ghandi
'Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.'
Robert A. Heinlein
'Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.'
Corinthians
'My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; Well lock them up together, And throw away the key.'
Frederick Saunders
'Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.'
Ed Hird
'Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.'
Samuel Lover
'Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.'
Oscar Wilde
'Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.'
Charles Stanley
This quote doesn’t really need much explanation since it describes what Men and Women want when it comes to love. For Men, let’s admit it, our first instinct when looking for our first girlfriend is for us to be her first. We want that girl or woman to be pure and virgin and for some, tend to get possessive and not let go of her which can be attributed to a man’s primal instinct of being territorial not only for territory, but also for his mate. The feeling of being the first one into a woman’s life is always special just like owning and riding a brand new car.
Women, on the other hand, are more sensitive and subtle towards love and romance. Most, if not all, are more patient and don’t mind being the first, second, third, or so on, for their partners, as long as they are the last love of their partner’s life, pertaining to the quote '’til death do us part.'
'Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.' Which is true and this quote does not only refer to men, but to women as well.
There is no denying that first impressions last when a man or a woman sees a physically attractive person and becomes interested with her or him. However, to most people, it’s the personality that counts when it comes to falling in love with someone. Love starts with the interaction and relation of two people and bonded by time. Even if a man’s partner is aesthetically challenged, his better half will always be beautiful to his eyes because he’s in love with her.
'As for me, what I would quote is that “Love will always be a part of our lives. It is the emotion that God has given us to use for him and to other people.'
Anonymous
'You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.'
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Best Real Love Quotes
- 11.26.2008
- Article Number: 9
| "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
by Ingrid Bergmen
"I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
by Roy Croft
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
by Robert Heinlein
"It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands."
by Jaka
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
by Helen Keller
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
by Mignon McLaughlin
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
by George Sand
"The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."
by William Shakespeare
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
by Alexander Smith
"Love is friendship set on fire."
by Jeremy Taylor
Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you."
by Unknown
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
by Josiah G. Holland
"The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."
by Sir Hugh Walpole
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
by Erich Fromm
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
by Sam Keen
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
by Victor Hugo
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals."
by J. Isham
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
by Lao Tzu
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
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Have you been Bitten by the Love Bug?
- 11.25.2008
- Article Number: 8
| Have you got it? Have you been bitten by the love bug?
Every disease has it’s own unique set of symptoms. We often diagnose what we have by identifying them in our body. Can you diagnose love in your life and the lives of others –I’m sure you can. What are the symptoms of getting love?
1. Our Feelings
We most commonly detect love via our FEELINGS – tingly, exciting, happy feelings when it comes, it thrills us and brings us joy. These feelings color our experience of life and it’s ups and downs. We feel great and struggle to account for it. These feelings make life worth rejoicing in, we feel so connected, ready for anything.
But then when love is absent it brings us feelings of loneliness, emptiness, sadness and sometimes depression. Notice what the current popular songs singing about – mostly the feelings that surround having, getting or losing love. Consider how much time we spend listening to these songs, because they reflect how special love is to us, and how closely we identify with these feelings.
2. Love makes us Grow
We can recognize love’s special-ness by the growth it stimulates in our lives: rejuvenation, rebirth and energy come as result of being loved and loving back. We have love's energy, motivation and zip! When we are intensely loved we can often experience bursts of inspiration, creativity and personality growth. We have the confidence and belief to tackle things that previously seemed beyond us.
3. Love gives us Acceptance
A comforting sense of acceptance and security, a state of belonging, and knowing that we are okay in the presence of that someone special – a friend, a lover or special family member. When we are really loved we feel as though we truly belong and are always welcome, just as we are. We don’t need to watch all our p’s and q’s, and be on best performance, love takes us past that.
4. Love adds meaning to Life
We often recognize love, because we are suddenly discovering new meaning and purpose to our lives, an altering sense of significance and hope. We feel special, appreciated, and somehow important. We feel that our contribution is valuable, people are believing in us and we feel needed.
5. Love evokes sacrificial giving
Love changes us - we find ourselves wanting to give. We seem to come out of our comfort cocoon and want to share so much more (often without even consciously purposing to do so). This deep love within is leads to our sacrificial giving to the beloved, of our time, our energy, our money, our affections, our acceptance and forgiveness, etc. Love evokes special commitment and sensitivity to the beloved needs, and we want to pour out ourselves to bless them with our love.
6. Love makes us see-through
Love makes us transparent, we feel we have less to hide, or what we used to hide is no longer so ugly or unacceptable now. We recognize love’s effects when we see in ourselves a greater openness, and willingness to be known for who we are. An increasing awareness and expression of how we feel about ourselves and our world and what we personally desire. A refreshing transparency and honesty.
7. Love notices others more.
Love makes us more aware of the relationships happening around us. We notice more whenever someone else is giving attention or seeking attention – either positive or negative.
Love is amazing special in so many ways. An elixir. A tonic. A gift of living.
If you’ve got this love bug, there is a cure! It takes a little time sometimes, but it always works.
On rising in the morning take two medicine measures of complaints, preferably the kind that focus on what others have done wrong to you to restore your sense self-importance and pride. Then regularly at four hourly intervals one small spoon of doubt (doubt in the genuineness of other’s motives and what lies behind their actions). Taken regularly this medicine leads to worry and finally fear. This is guaranteed to close up the heart to the invasion of this love bug, as it has been shown in clinical tests to clog up the flow of love.
My friends be aware of the symptoms of the love bug, they can affect you quite seriously.
Until next time this is Pierre Basson saying …
“love till it hurts, and then enjoy it some more.”
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It’s Love makes the world go around
- 11.25.2008
- Article Number: 7
| It’s Love makes the world go around
The universal expectation to be treated decently and fairly is the most glaring evidence that love is the one irreducible moral absolute.
Everyone knows that they ought to love and that it is the right thing to do. When you ask people how they ought to live, they will usually come up with the right answer: Do to others, as you would have them do to you.
Proof: simple observation of human nature indicates that all people everywhere hope and expect to be loved. Everyone wants to be treated with fairness, respect, courtesy, and honesty. People who are mentally and emotionally stable are not happy when they are assaulted, abused, slandered, lied to, cheated, robbed, belittled, or ignored. Rather, when treated in an unloving manner, most people react negatively. They become angry, distraught, disillusioned, or hurt, revealing that the unloving treatment was an unwelcome intrusion rather than a cherished expectation. People universally act as if they deserve the respect and dignity inherent in love, which proves that it is right to love, and that we all need it.
It seems safe to conclude that all people expect to be loved and therefore ought to love others. Refusing or failing to love others either denies that they are persons or reveals us to be inconsistent with our own moral expectations.
The Golden Rule simply summarizes what human behavior and personal expectations convincingly witness. Since we expect to be loved, we ought to love others. To deny love to others is to deny their personhood. And if all people call for love, then love cannot be consistently limited only to some people who we wish to love. If you acknowledge that you hope for and expect loving treatment from others, then your expectation demands that you also love others.
Love can be used to sell anything – by simple association.
Love can be used to sell anything by simply associating good feelings of love to the person or product. The offer of loving attention or lovable-ness, attached to having or using a certain product, has been a lucrative selling technique since way back. Today it is used to sell almost anything, from toothpaste and smelly cigarettes to fashion wear and automobiles!
Love gives meaning to our lives.
Love is undoubtedly the most fulfilling and satisfying experience in the world. It is indeed the one and only state that can satisfy us and meeting our deepest needs for a sense of significance and personal worth.
When people lose the love of their closest and dearest, it is almost always accompanied by a great sense of loss, and for the remaining spouse or family members, it can often mean a deep loss of meaning. They may temporarily lose the reason to carry on living. Unless they re-orient themselves, to other loves, they will wither and the joy of life will slip away from them.
It is a life and death commodity – it is not optional.
Medical research has shown that when small babies are given medical care in hospitals, but deprived of physical affection and attention they are most likely to die before age two. Hundreds have died in unloving clinical environments just from a lack of physical love. Love is vital to our survival.
The “love challenged” abound in our society – desperately needing love - the poor, the homeless, the aged, the handicapped are the most obvious, because they usually cannot buy it when they need it most. Often when they are eventually loved by a caring somebody, then their personalities blossom and flourish.
Yes, none of us can live without love, for else we wither, become mean and self-centered (and quite un-love-ly).
Love is Basic to Life.
It is a proven medical fact that love is vital to the survival and sanity of every human being. Medical case studies in maternity wards of hospitals have shown that, human babies who are given all they need (physically) but who are denied love and physical affection very often die! Everybody needs loving attention! As we grow older, perhaps even more so! We may not show the need as much (often as a result of hurt and disappointment), but we are all desperate to be loved.
Everybody needs Loving and wants Love.
Love is a “must have” not an optional extra. Without it we experience emotional pain, loneliness, insecurity and a sense of worthlessness. But when we are loved and feeling in love, living can be a constant high, a secure place, accompanied by a deep sense of significance and special-ness. It fills the emptiness within. It is a universal need we all have.
Love is the only moral absolute that is not self-defeating. Everyone wants to be loved, so everyone must love.
Until next time this is Pierre Basson saying …
“It may be love that makes the world go round, BUT it’s YOU that makes the love go round”
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What is so special or unique about Love?
- 11.25.2008
- Article Number: 6
| What is so special or unique about Love?
Stop. Look at your thumb, now take a closer look. It looks like any other thumb right. Wrong.
Love is as unique as your thumbprint, there are no other copies in the entire world.
Have you considered what it is about love that is so unique?
Love is custom made, unique experience for each of us. Our experience of love is unique for each one of us. It cannot be objectively compared. It’s meaning is affected by our mood, our current needs, our past experience, and our interpretation of what constitutes loving action in different situations and depending on what we are focusing on.
Love is in short supply and is often elusive
Love is not a tangible, it cannot be stored up for a rainy day. You can’t put it in the bank for a rainy day. Circumstances change, and people change, they also move on and they all eventually pass away. Love is dependent on other people’s responses and their moods. Love is worth most when we receive it unearned and unasked for. Love is hard to define, and it’s impossible to measure, it is personal, and it cannot be controlled. Love means more to us in a time of need, and that’s when we least feel at liberty to ask for it. When we have to ask for love, it often seems less valuable, as though it had been demanded, rather than freely offered.
People will do anything to get love
They will try to buy , bash, beg or beguile to get it.
Many of us are chasing after riches and success, without realizing that it is actually love that we are wanting from our success. People will try to “buy” the love of others with gifts and favors. They will try to impress, or even manipulate or seduce, to get people, to love them back. Sometimes they will even humiliate themselves in order to obtain compassion or pity. Others will demand love, and try to control others, in order to secure their attentions and in so doing secure their love too.
Love is greatly misunderstood and often misused.
In the name of love many crimes and personal atrocities are committed each day. Some people even use our duty to love them, against us, to control us, to obligate us, or to abuse us, so that they get what they want. Selfish lust is often sold to us as “love”, and unless we know what real love is, we will become confused and/or deceived. Even religious people may at times be guilty of leveraging our obligation to love God and the church, for their personal gain and status. It boils down to someone saying “ If you are really loving, you will do what I ask of you.” Be very careful of that one.
Love drives our feelings – big time
Few other experiences can produce the emotional high that “falling in love” does. It makes everything seem like heaven. And losing it, can just as easily make everything seem like hell. Love can make princes out of paupers, but love that is lost can crush even its strongest victims like a marshmallow in a vice. The insecurity of an approaching love relationship can take even the strongest amongst us on an emotional roller-coaster ride, second to none.
Love evokes all kinds of feelings – satisfying, exciting, happy feelings when it comes. Thrills that bring joy, juice and jubilation. It makes life’s difficulties seem so much easier to bear, and life worth rejoicing in, but when it leaves or is absent it may leave behind feelings of loneliness, emptiness, sadness and even depression. Just listen to the current popular songs and notice what they sing about – all the feelings that surround love and the desire for it, or they bemoan the loss of love.
Love seeks to sets us free
Love’s goal is always to seek the increasing freedom of the beloved. And the goal of freedom is always to allow people the freedom to choose, to love or not to love. Love that tries to capture or control a person against their will is not really love at all, is it?
Love is special and unique for you, appreciate it that way. Take a moment to thank God now for giving you your unique experience of love .
Until next time this is Pierre Basson saying
“No-one feels love quite like you do, you_ are _special”
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God to Stephen Hawking: Really? That's all you've got?
Ironically, by disputing God, Hawking may get us all killed by God. read more
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:50:35 -0700
The Pygmies of Pocket God Land on Verizon Wireless
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God vs. Daylights Savings Time
When God said "let there be light", little did he realize the fight it would start one day in the Holy Land - the fight over Daylight Saving Time.
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:30:05 -0700
God is no longer male, says Scottish Episcopal church
References to god such as 'Lord, he, his, him' and 'mankind' during services have been replaced by the church to acknowledge that God is 'beyond human gender'.
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