We’re back from three weeks in India and Nepal, and I’ve been feverishly and happily processing about 10,000 new photos which I hope to begin sharing with you soon. Meanwhile, I recently finished Timothy Campbell’s book, Everywhere You Go There’s a Zacchaeus Up a Tree, and it’s so full of pithy sayings that I wanted to pass some along:
“I have one blind eye and one deaf ear, and they are the best ear and eye that I have.” C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
“The anvil breaks a host of hammers by quietly bearing their blows.” Charles Spurgeon
“Never question in the dark what God has shown you in the light.” Reinnie Barth
“Loose lips sink ships.” World War II adage
“The most important thing to me is how I walk with God, whether I please Him or not. My family is second and my job third. I try to keep things in perspective.” Ernie Harwell, Detroit Free Press, April 14, 1991.
“No physician ever weighed out medicine to his patients with half so much care and exactness as God weighs out to us every trial. Not one grain too much does He ever permit to be put on the scale.” Henry Ward Beecher
“If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails. Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten the day or delay, we will fear nothing.” Martin Luther
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; great faith will bring heaven to your soul.” Charles Spurgeon
The following quotations are all gleaned from Timothy Campbell’s father, Roger Campbell, from this same book:
“The Lord didn’t come to rub it in; He came to rub it out.”
“In every problem faith sees an opportunity, and in every opportunity doubt sees a problem.”
“Paying too much attention to negatives can cause one to become an expert at faultfinding. And if you build your life on faults, expect earthquakes.”
“A watching world is far more likely to remember your lapse than your light.”
“Sympathy sees and says, ‘I’m sorry.’ Compassion sees and says, ‘I’ll help.'”
“Doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs.”
“Fear robs us of the adventure of living, even when the fears are imaginary.”
“Lord, I’m impossible; make me possible.”…”Your dream of personal freedom is achievable.”
“What can you do to lessen your loneliness? Try reaching out to other lonely people.”
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
Summer Setting 