Back Pocket Thoughts

Some people hate it; others, like me, cannot help it. While reading I dog-ear pages all the time. The issue is, the habitual practice is more useless than beneficial..until now.

Often times I read something out of a book or hear something profound and think, "Dang, I sure hope I can remember to write about that later!" This post, and many more like it, will be dedicated to the "worth-a-second-look" collection of meaningful thoughts, ideas or quotes that pop up throughout my daily life. You know, the ones we find ourselves reading again, repeating, or even memorizing. I like to call them "back pocket thoughts."

• "Some men want to sit within the sound of a church or chapel bell; not I, I want to set up a rescue shop within a yard of Hell."  - missionary C.T. Studd (Feb. 2011)
• "As I see it, the evidence is incontestable: Christians risk becoming utterly irrelevant in their own culture if they continue to separate people into 'We, the Saved' and 'They, the Damned.'" - Carlton Pearson (Feb. 2011)
• While reading Making All Things New by Henri J.M. Nouwen - (Dec. 2010)
•    "What would happen if we stopped worrying? If the urge to be entertained so much, to travel so much, to buy so much, and to arm ourselves so much no longer motivated our behavior, could our society as it is today still function? The tragedy is that we are indeed caught in a web of false expectations and contrived needs. Our occupations and preoccupations fill our external and internal lives to the brim. They prevent the Spirit of God from breathing freely in us and thus renewing our lives."
•    "Worrying causes us to be 'all over the place,' but seldom at home. One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there."