Outpost 17

1 SAMUEL 30-31 / LUKE 17:20-37

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”

― Thomas Paine

1 SAMUEL 27-29 / LUKE 17:1-19

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”

― Joss Whedon

1 SAMUEL 25-26 / LUKE 16:19-31

“It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.”

― James E. Faust

1 SAMUEL 22-24 / LUKE 16:1-18

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

1 SAMUEL 4-6 / LUKE 12:35-59

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

- Virginia Wolf

1 SAMUEL 1-3 / LUKE 12:1-34

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

― Viktor E. Frank

JOSHUA 1-3 / LUKE 1:57-80

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

― John C. Maxwell

DEUTERONOMY 33-34 / LUKE 1:24-56

“If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.”

― A.W. Tozer

DEUTERONOMY 25-26 / MARK 15:1-32

"You’re cheating yourself out of today. 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

NUMBERS 21-25 / MARK 7:14-8:21

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

― Abraham Lincoln