Are you a shut-in, or can't make it to Church because of coronavirus closures? Great news: make plans to join Crossroads Community Church on Sunday, August 9, at 10:00 a.m. PST for a special live stream 'being Fearless Series' Matthew 6:33-34 'FearBusters' message by Pastor Dan MacAulay, taped live at CMC in Davis Bay (normally services are held at Ravens Cry Theatre in Sechelt, B.C.): Go to
www.CrossroadsSechelt.com on the main page, scroll down to the live video and you should be all set.
QuotaBillsOne joy scatters a hundred griefs. - Chinese Proverb
A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning. - Viktor Frankl
Prayer - the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Homer Simpson
You have as much laughter as you have faith. - Martin Luther
He who fears dangers will not perish by them. - Leonardo da Vinci
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers. - Colin Powell
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. - Ed Asner
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence. - Mark Batterson
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Tennyson
Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave. - Mark Batterson
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. - William Newton Clark
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich
Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do. - Barack Obama
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. - Philip Yancey
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. - C S Lewis
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age. - Chinese Proverb
Without faith, a man can do nothing; with it, all things are possible. - William Osler
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - Bible
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard
There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. - Michael Ende
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. - Mark Twain
Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. - William Temple
I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around. - Ravi Zacharias
At the sum of all fears, the only thing that is painted... is a reflection of you. - Lionel Suggs
We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Holy Bible
Don't postpone joy until you've learned all your lessons. Joy is your lesson. - Alan Cohen
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. - Josh Billings
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas
may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles H Spurgeon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. - Helen Rowland
Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. - Terry T Williams
The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. - J D Salinger
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. - Christopher Paolini
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. - Liam Neeson
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. - Harper Lee
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. - Norman Cousins
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. - Floyd W Tomkins
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. - Elbert Hubbard
Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. - C.T. Studd
God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith. - Max Lucado
In today's rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just being. - Eckhart Tolle
The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job, and try to do the best you can, the money will come. - Lawrence Welk
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in Church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. - Fred Allen
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mohandas Gandhi
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. - William James
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle. - Neil Armstrong
One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans. - Kelli Jae Baeli