January 2010
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The most beautiful dialogue Tolkien ever wrote, in...
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
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The most beautiful dialogue Tolkien ever wrote, in...
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
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– J.R.R. Tolkien (via saravargas)
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standyourground:
“Those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again.” -2 Corinthians 5:15
As I am writing these blogs, I noticed a pattern. I talk about following God and letting Him take control, a lot. Well, I guess I should explain what I take from it. How I feel is letting God take control.
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“What would your life look like if you trusted God to give you what you need,...”
– One of the “thinking” questions in my devotional tonight. HELLO smack in the face. (via alyssassyla)
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“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
– Frank Scully
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“Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His
name.”
– Anatole France
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“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily
some feat...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”
– Oscar Wilde (via peace-truth-love)
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“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But...”
– C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity” (via marktheshark)
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“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to...”
– C.S. Lewis (via thingssheloves)
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pesamob:
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. M. F. Tupper.
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