There are many people living in the midst of unattractive circumstances, amid hardships, toil, and disease, whose daily life breathes out most gently music that blesses others about them.- J. F. Millar

The world will not be converted when Christ returns. It will be found in the same condition that it was in the day of the flood. When the flood came, men were found "eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage," absorbed in their worldly pursuits, and utterly regardless of Noah's repeated warnings. They saw no likelihood of a flood. They would not believe there was any danger. But at last the flood came suddenly and "took them all away." All that were not with Noah in the ark were drowned. They were all swept away to their last account, unpardoned, unconverted, and unprepared to meet God. And our Lord says, "so will be the coming of the Son of Man." ~ J.C. RyleExpository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986], 326, 327.

Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like. Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps - if we trust it to do so.- Marsha Sinetar

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821 - 1881

Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing! - Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745