Ungrateful Wretch

"The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Doing Something

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."

~ Neil Gaiman

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Change of Mind

Can God change His mind?

Clearly He can, because there are several times in the Bible when He either "repented of" what He was doing planning on doing, or allowing to happen; or when prayer changed the same.

But the Bible also says that God cannot change. So is this a contradiction?

The Bible says that God can't change. God Himself will always be the same, "yesterday, and today, and for ever." (Hebrews 13:8) When someone changes his mind, that doesn't necessarily change who he is; only what his is doing, saying etc. God is love, God is good, God is just, God is merciful, God can do no wrong... Those things will never change. But because God is merciful, He will sometimes change His mind--for the good of His people, or simply because He loves us.

So, yes, God can change His mind. No, this is not a contradiction, but rather another facet of Who our loving, almighty Father is.

~ Jessy

Source: my Facebook > 22 April 2013

Writing and Living

"'Silly Mel. Writing is about life. Living is just preparing for writing.' I grin at her convinced I've said something deep that will be handed down to future generations.

"She does something with her hair and some clips she took out of her pocket, 'Then why,' she says around the one she's holding in her teeth, 'Don't you do it more often?'"

~ the Anne-girl

Source: Scribblings of My Pen and Tappings of My Keyboard > 2013 > January > Did You Know?

Character Index

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

~ Abigail van Buren

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Thursday, 9 January 2014

A Song

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song"

~ Maya Angelou

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Friday, 4 April 2014

The Heart

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."

~ Jeremiah

Source: Bible Gateway VOTD, 2 July 2014; The King James Bible > Jeremiah 17:9-10