Quotes

@"Emily H" Yes, we know someone who was really bothered by what the donkey was called in John 12. I just think people should switch to ESV ;D. But the thing that I thought was the funniest was treading on high heels (that's actually what I thought was said at first). I was sitting in the back of my oral round room shaking with laughter; good thing the contestant couldn't see me.

xD Well, I like KJV a whole lot, but ESV is the version I go to if I want to cross check something. xD Haha, you mean in Habakkuk?? xD

Study Group on Tuesday evening

Caleb H: How many days after the Passover was Pentecost?
All the really smart BBers start making strategic guesses and someone finally says "fifty"
Caleb: Yeah guys… Pente cost…as in "fifty"…

Yes, in Habakkuk.
KJV is also very helpful, because it's so old, so there are many resources available for it…but ESV is definitely my favorite :).

I just started experimenting with ESV and I really like it… :P

"The one who gives to me teaches me to give." Danish Proverb

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Unknown

"Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." Henry Ward Beecher

"Gentlemen: Understanding your pulpit is vacant, I should like to apply for the position. I have many qualifications. I've been a preacher with much success and also some success as a writer. Some say I'm a good organizer. I've been a leader most places I've been.
I'm over 50 years of age. I have never preached in one place for more than three years. In some places I have left the town after my work caused riots and disturbances. I must admit I've been in jail three or four times, but not because of any real wrongdoing.
My health is not too good, though I still get a great deal done. The churches I have preached in have been small, though located in several large cities.
I've not gotten along well with religious leaders in towns where I have preached. In fact, some have threatened me and even attacked me physically. I am not too good at keeping records. I have been known to forget whom I have baptized.
However, if you can use me, I shall do my best for you.
The board members looked over the committee. "Well, what do you think? Should we call him?"
The good church folks were aghast. Call an unhealthy, trouble-making, absent-minded, ex-jailbird? Was the board member crazy? Who signed the application? Who had such colossal nerve?
The board member eyed them all keenly before he answered. "It's signed, 'The Apostle Paul.'" Unknown

Orchestra… xP
J. BJ, are you playing in the rests again? You know at [our teacher's house] it costs 25 cents to play in the rest _{{not really, but she always threatens! xD}} so here it's going to cost 25 dollars. Plus for every five second you don't pay, the interest rate goes up, so so right now you owe [an insane amount of money].
B. Hey, well, you played in a rest too!
J. Yeah, well, it doesn't count if you're on the front stand. Beside, maybe that's how it was supposed to go and it was wrong on the music.
Me. Hmm, Joe, sounds like someone like you made up these rules.

"He who sings his own praises is always a soloist." Unknown

"When you sing your own praise, you always get the tune too high" Unknown

"Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time."

Yes!

"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely thing, until they have something to forgive." C. S. Lewis

(not sure that's exactly right…but it's close enough…xP)

"Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time."

Yes. Yes. Just yes. xP

Zach: That quote reminded me of our moping party at the M's house - wouldn't you still say we had the best time, even though we about did nothing? =')

xD Totally. We can even have cry parties together and still have the best of times. x')

Exactly what I was thinking! Definitely one of the best parts about nationals this year.

One of my new favorite quotes xD

"Whenever I think of something, but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."
~Criss Jami

"'But I have never felt any compelling call to give my life for missionary service," the young man told the conference speaker. "Are you sure you are within calling distance?" Was the disquieting reply."Unknown

"Faithless I'd he that says farewell when the road darkens." J. R. R. Tolkein

"Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but since and love nothing but God, and I will shake the gates of hell." John Wesley

"Christian love is…
Silence when words would hurt,
Patience when your neighbor's Curt,
Deafness when scandal flows,
Thoughtfulness for another's woes,
Promptness when a stern duty calls,
Courage when misfortune falls." Unknown

Good quote: Never regret something that once made you smile.

"Christians should always strive to be like a good watch - open face, busy hands, pure gold, well regulated, and full of good works." Unknown

"If a man stands up and cheers for a football team in a stadium, he is called a "fan." But if he stands and cheers for the cause of Jesus Christ, he is labeled a "fanatic." Unknown

"Fan" is technically just short for "fanatic", although the respective meanings have migrated slightly. Just sayin'. :P

I know. It's just a fanatic sounds like a terrible thing. But fan is more excusable.

"Oh, cakes and friends we should choose with care,
Not always the fanciest cake that's there
Is the best to eat! And the plainest friend
Is sometimes the finest one in the end!"
Margaret E. Sangster

"When life gets blurry adjust your focus"

xD

"Mighty potentates have raged against this book, and sought to destroy and uproot it—Alexander the Great and princes of Egypt and Babylon, the monarchs of Persia, of Greece and of Rome, the Emperors Julius and Augustus—but they prevailed nothing. They are gone while the book remains, and it will remain forever and ever, perfect and entire, as it was declared at first. Who has thus helped it—who has protected it against such mighty forces? No one, surely, but God Himself, who is master of all things."
~ Martin Luther

"You cannot buy heaven with gold. Why, they have paved the streets up there with it." Charles H. Surgeon

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."
"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."

-Corrie ten Boom

That's a good one Eirene! I love it :)

Corrie ten Boom so inspires me.

"If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon."
Johannes Brahms

Haha, just played two Brahms pieces at our last concert…sounds like quite an interesting character.

To be a musician is a curse. To NOT be one is even worse." Jack Daney

"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Just guess where you think my ships are."
"Oh, okay. Uh… Two, B."
"Uh, not 2B".
"Drat. Uh, your turn."

That moment when you finally get a joke from a Veggietales (or really, from any movie) you've watched for as long as you can remember… xP Lol

Hamlet! :P

Yup! Except, in Veggietales, it's Omelet. :P

"Better watch out when you buy online, it don't turn out good all the time." Tim Hawkins – Pretty Pink Tractor

Ben: "…but if it doesn't work out, we'll walk out of here with just the shirts on our backs."
silence…
Joe: "You mean I get to keep this shirt!!"

Me: Oh, I think daddy took the car.
Mom: Uh, we're in the car.
Me: Uhhh, oh, right.
Mom: I know, you're tired…
Me: Yeahhh…me too.

facedesk

"Prepare well before striking." -Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery

(Or something like that.)

So I'm having a new adventure right now doing sound booth for church. It's a lot of fun and so many hilarious things happen. Today, the service was about to start but the family who was supposed to read the opening Scripture passage was nowhere to be found…
Everett to the sound board guy: Just run up there and grab a couple random kids and go read the passage.
Caleb: Yeah, right. And I'll get Emily to come up with me.
Me: Yeah, right…"Hi, uh, we're the stunt doubles for the D. family…"