The Official Site of Joseph Hinson » Quotes http://josephhinson.com Thoughts and Ramblings of Joseph Hinson Sun, 13 May 2012 13:18:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Reasonably happy in this life… http://josephhinson.com/2011/07/reasonably-happy-in-this-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reasonably-happy-in-this-life http://josephhinson.com/2011/07/reasonably-happy-in-this-life/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:12:52 +0000 Joseph http://josephhinson.com/?p=1534 God, grant me the Serenity

To accept the things I cannot change…

Courage to change the things I can,

And Wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it.

Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will.

That I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with Him forever in the next.

Amen.

- Reinhold Neibuhr

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We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

-C. S. Lewis

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…We have insulated ourselves from miracles. We no longer live with such reckless faith that we need them. There is rarely room for the transcendent in our lives. If we get sick, we go to a doctor. If we need food, we go to a store and buy it. We have eliminated the need for miracles. If we had enough faith to depend on God like the lilies and the sparrows do, we would see miracles. – from Shane Claiborne’s Irresistible Revolution

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