I Only Have Eyes For You...: I Am

Thursday, August 27, 2009

I Am

I am black and I am white.
I am filthy; I am pure.
I am lost and I am found.
I am and am not breaking ground.
I am weak and I am strong.
I am depraved and I am clean.
I am nothing; I am all.
A broken, perfect song I sing.
I am war and I am peace.
I am human; I am soul.
I am wicked; I am holy.
I am frail and indestructible.
I am fickle; I am steady.
I am empty; I am full.
I am dark and I am light.
I am ambivalence in whole.
But God is simply “I Am.”

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Quotes

"Someone who sees grace as permission to sin has missed grace entirely. Mercy understood is holiness desired." -Max Lucado
"When the government has its fingers in every pie, it kinda forces religion out of the flavor."--Nathan
"I'm not on your quote wall. Just goes to show, only the most awesome people don't get quoted. I mean look, neither you nor I are up there."--Nathan :)
"The only things that are difficult in life are those things you make difficult for yourself...apart from that, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE."--Nora
"No, they weren't hills...they were MOUNTAINS!"--Jacob
"I wish I was having a kid."--Matthew
"It looks like a rock, but they call it a coaster."--Amanda
"The last five Bagel Bites. That's okay, though. I got lots of Hot Pockets."--Kenneth
Hollie: "What's up with the Santa hat?" Zach: "*shrug* I'm always festively suspicious."
"Grape is the fruit of hope."--Demetri Martin
"I am the unquotable one..."--Cody :)
"Maybe life is like a sour warhead candy.... Think of it like this--let us thank God for our trials and sour layers! They're tests of our faith and trust in the Lord to bring us through and love Him no matter what."--Amber
"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."--President Calvin Coolidge
"If God is the Sun, then friends are the stars."--Anonymous
"Occasionally I'll make fun of myself, because I'm ridiculous, for Jesus."--Mark Driscoll
"Never think for a moment that the sudden surges of poplular culture have no impact on what seems to be the immovable societal pillars of government and religion. The populace wields more power than either of those sturdy branches would ever choose to give away.... Thankfully, we have a sovereign God who reigns over all and is threatened by none."--Esther by Beth Moore
"A puzzle is still a puzzle if the pieces are scattered."--Austin
“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”--Charles L. Allen
“Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.”--Unknown
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. "--Mother Teresa
"Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter."--Author Unknown
"Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him - you try too hard, friend - drop to your knees and listen to him, he'll hear you better that way."--Ever Garrison
"I'm the ultimate time waster. I just waste it with things I consider to be worth my time... it's other people that think the time is being wasted. "--Ellen
"Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room!"--Stanley Kubrick
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."--Einstein
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."--Einstein
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."--Abraham Lincoln
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched… but are felt by the heart."--Helen Keller
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. "--Albert Einstein
"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."--Jonathan Edwards
"Don't beat yourself up, the world can do that just fine."--Dante
"Fries are mutated potatoes. They're awesome, but they are fried and dipped in grease and salt. Not so with divine tots, the blessed food of G-d."--Brandon
"Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall never be unemployed."--Ari
"Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.--It depends upon the character of those who handle it."--Emma by Jane Austen
"I owe to G-d the gifts given to me, to G-d alone. Without Him I am nothing."--Sergei Rachmaninoff
"Procrastinators unite! ...tomorrow."--Unknown
"Happiness is a choice."--My dance teacher
"Maybe one day I will learn to cultivate patience."--Ari
"Many times, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."--Unknown
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."--Bertrand Russell
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”--Oscar Wilde
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”--Robert McCloskey
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes"--Unknown
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."--Mary Kay Ash
"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."--Garret Ford
"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."--Isaac Bashevis Singer
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."--Sir Winston Churchhill, British Politian
"G-d himself could not sink this ship!"--Unknown passenger of the Titanic
"If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research."--Wilson Mizner
"Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one."--Flannery O'Conner
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."--Antonin Artaud
"The only people who grow old were born old to begin with."--Robert E. Sherwood
'When you have nothing left to give, stand."--Unknown
"Oy with the poodles already!"--Gilmore Girls
"I like it not."--Julius Caesar
(my friend to her geese) "I'm gonna kick their [butts] back to the eggs from which they hatched!"
"Nothing should take second place in your heart, because only there does G-d truly reside."--Brandon
"A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her."--Unknown
"Banjos are expensive!"--Mat
"O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, Let pass my weary guiltless ghost, Out of my careful rest." -- George Boleyn
"One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish." -- Romeo and Juliet
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." -- Nick in The Great Gatsby
"Is this a kissing book?"-- boy in "The Princess Bride"
"That's the spirit - one part brave, three parts fool. "-- Brom
"Look! *bang* A un-dead monkey!"-- Cap. Jack Sparrow
"*pulls out sword* And what makes you think I need rescuing?"-- Elizabeth Swann
"I've gotta jar of dirt!! I've gotta jar of dirt!! Guess what's in it!!"-- Cap. Jack Sparrow
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."-- Emily Dickinson
"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."-- Edgar Allen Poe
"Falling doesn't hurt...it's just the sudden stop at the bottom."-- My buddy
"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb."-- Edward
"If you find an adjective, KILL IT. If it survives, you can keep it."-- Mark Twain
"If I didn't love you, why would I tease you?"-- My brother/friend
"Life sucks, so why should fiction?"-- my friend