Outpost 17

1 Chronicles 6-7 / John 8:21-36 “I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!” ― Steve Maraboli,

1 Chronicles 3-5 / John 8:1-20 “The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.” ― Brennan Manning

1 Chronicles 1-2 / John 7:32-53 “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato

2 Kings 23-25 / John 7: 1-31 “When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” ― Ernest Hemingway

2 Kings 23-25 / John 7:1-31 “It seems altogether probable that we would live with far greater care if we realized that in living out our day we are in fact writing out our history.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

2 Kings 18-19 / John 6:22-44 “We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.” ― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

2 Kings 15-17 / John 6:1-21 “How blind is the delusion that the greatness of a man is measured by his living; rather, it’s always by his giving.” ― Christian Hunt, The Dawn of Grace

2 Kings 12=14 / John 5:25-47 “It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

2 Kings 9-11 / John 5:1-24 “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein

2 Kings 6-8 / John 4:31-54 “The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.” ― Dan B. Allender

2 Kings 4-5 / John 4:1-30 "Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.” ― Jerry Spinelli

2 Kings 1-3 / John 3:22-36 “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” ― William G.T. Shedd

1 Kings 21-22 / John 3:1-21 “God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.” ― Warren W. Wiersbe

1 Kings 19-20 / John 2 “Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.” ― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child

1 Kings 16-18 / John 1:29-51 “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ― Winston S. Churchill

1 Kings 16-18 / John 1:29-51 "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." ― Kahlil Gibran

1 Kings 12-13 / Luke 24:1-50 “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J.K. Rowling

1 Kings 10-11 / Luke 24:1-35 "Are you capable of forgiving and accepting in love a world which has disappointed you by not being perfect, a world in which there is so much unfairness and cruelty, disease and crime, earthquake and accident? Can you forgive its imperfections and love it because it is capable of containing great beauty and goodness, and because it is the only world we have?...And if...

1 Kings 8-9 / Luke 23:39-56 “Yeah. Beethoven was deaf. Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky's got a good chance.” -Adrian, 'Rocky'

1 Kings 6-7 / Luke 23:27-38 “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work” ― Thomas A. Edison

1 Kings 3-5 / Luke 23:1-26 “Our story is not only about exile and oppression and suffering. It is the story of thriving, of triumph, and of great faith. It is the story of a people that laughs in the face of deepest despair, that stubbornly clings to life and to joy even in the face of horror and death. We take our pain and turn it into poetry. We take our misfortune and transform it into opportun...

1 King 1-2 / Luke 22:54-71 “Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

2 Samuel 24 / Luke 22:46-53 “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

2 Samuel 21-22 / Luke 22: 39-46 God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting...

2 Samuel 19-22 / Luke 22: 1-38 “The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.” ― Søren Kierkegaard