‎"The transforming moment in Christian conversion comes when we realize that even God has left us. We then discover that it was not God, but our image of God, that abandoned us. This frees us to discover more of the mystery of God than we knew. Only then is change possible." - M. Craig Barnes

Desserts spelled backwards is "stressed".

‎"So, this policy of torture and abuse, what it did is it
helped al-Qaeda recruit, it lowered our moral standing in
the world, it sacrificed our principles, and ultimately it
cost us more time to find binLaden, and it will take us
longer to defeat violent extremism."

Matthew Alexander, former senior military interrogator in Iraq

He who feels he is too small to make a difference has never been bitten by a mosquito.--unknown

The Wise Old Owl

A Wise Old Owl sat in an oak
The more he heard; the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard
Why aren't we all like that Wise Old Bird?

My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Conley, used to say this all the time.