Rochelle Wentz:  

a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Braul "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.~Martha Washington Í say móre: the just man justices; Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces; 10 Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is— Chríst—for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men’s faces. ~Gerard Manley Hopkins On Christmas: An ordinary night with ordinary sheep and ordinary shepherds. And were it not for a God who loves to hook an “extra” on the front of ordinary, the night would have gone unnoticed. The sheep would have been forgotten, and the shepherds would have slept the night away. But God dances amidst the common. And that night he did a waltz… The night was ordinary no more.~Max Lucado Henri Nouwen said concerning compassion, "to not reach down from our high position to pull up those less fortunate but to go and make our home with them. For we have a God who did not pull us up but came and made His home with us" ~attributed to Henri Nouwen on a blog “You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.” ~Henri Nouwen "A lot of what the church is afraid will offend the world, actually attracts the world and only offends the religious" Bill Johnson May all your expectations be frustrated May all your plans be thwarted May all your desires be withered into nothingness that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child ...and sing and dance in the love of God who IS the Father Son and Spirit~ Carlos Whittaker "Maybe it's time to stop putting God in a box the size of your cerebral cortex. Maybe it's time to stop creating God in your image and let Him create you in His"~Mark Batterson "If you watch what you think, you won't have to watch what you say."~ Bill Johnson “There is a teasing irony: we spend our lives evading our own redemption. And this is naturally so because something in us knows that to be fully human we must experience pain and loss. Therefore, we are at ceaseless effort to elude this high cost, whatever the cost, until at last it overtakes us. And then in spite of ourselves we do realize our humanity. We are put in worthier possession of our souls. Then we look back and know that even our grief contained our blessing.”~George Sherman To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. [...] And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.~Howard Zinn "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." — C.S. Lewis "If this is going to be a Christian nation that DOESN'T help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to LOVE the poor and serve the needy WITHOUT CONDITION, and then admit that we just don't want to do it."~ Stephen Colbert "To know the peace that passes all understanding you must lose your right to understand." - Bill Johnson For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ~Paul in his letter to the Romans "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."~Steve Job "If its true that the value of something is measured by what someone will pay for it, then we need to rethink our worth." - Bill Johnson". More about Rochelle:"Kansas native who, like Dorothy, has been blown around the country a bit. The yellow brick road has led me to Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and now Texas--all very different, yet all uniquely beautiful.".