Favorite movie quotes!!

Ben: I'm so sorry I dropped you - I had to save the Declaration!
Abigail: No, don't be. I would have done exactly the same to you.
Ben: Really?
Abigail: Yeah.
Riley: I would've dropped you both. Freaks.
-National Treasure

Holly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
-Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Mia: "I just lost it."
The queen: "Other people lose it. We're supposed to find it."
Mia: "The concept is grasped. It's just that the execution is a little elusive."
-The Princess Diaries

"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."
-Pride and Prejudice

"So let me save you the suspense. You're not perfect, and she's not either. What matters is whether you're perfect for each other".
-Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return".
-Christian in Moulin Rouge

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
-Sayuri, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
-Arwen to Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

"But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain."
-Henri Ducard, Batman Begins

"Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something."
-Dread Pirate Roberts, The Princess Bride

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
-Andy to Red, The Shawshank Redemption

“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!”
-Rocky Balboa

"Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame."
-Robbie Turner, Atonement

“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear you will find yourself one day believing that is all you really are.”
-Marmie to Meg, in the film Little Women starring Susan Sarandon

“… in the movies, we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason, you're behaving like the best friend.”
-The Holiday

Hercules: Pardon me, my good, uh, uh…sir. I’ll have to ask you to release that young…
Megara: Keep movin’, junior.
Hercules: …lady. But you--are-aren’t you a damsel in distress?
Megara: I am a damsel, I am in distress. I can handle this. Have a nice day.
-Walt Disney’s Hercules

1. “In women, courage is often mistaken for insanity.”
   -A doctor, Iron Jawed Angels
3. Elle: I feel perfectly comfortable using legal jargon in every day life
   [wolf whistle]
   Elle: I object!
   -Elle’s Harvard admissions video, Legally Blonde

“Don't stomp your little last season Prada shoes at me, honey.”
-Enrique Salvatore, Legally Blonde

"And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
-Thomas Wayne, Batman Begins

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."
-RENT

1. "I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me." -Cecilia to Robbie, Atonement
   

"How old do you have to be to know the difference between right and wrong? What are you, 18? You have to be 18 before you can bring yourself to own up to a lie--there are soldiers of 18 old enough to be left to die by the side of the road, did you know that?!?!"
-Robbie to Briony, Atonement

To hang between two thieves in the darkness...

...love must believe you are worth it.
-Nichole Nordeman

Ironic outcome, seeing as I was raised a Methodist!

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You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists. Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 89% Neo orthodox 75% Roman Catholic 71% Reformed Evangelical 54% Classical Liberal 43% Charismatic/Pentecostal 36% Emergent/Postmodern 32% Fundamentalist 29% Modern Liberal 18%

When hope is hungry...

everything feeds it.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Regrettably, haven't posted in a while....but have no fear, will resume posting soon!

“Let us sing a new song ...

not with our lips but with our lives…”
-St. Augustine

Here are just some of my thoughts on Mass, which I was just discussing with my boyfriend at dinner tonight. I do not believe that going to Mass because the Church says you have to is necessarily a good thing. How is that choosing to love God, and be with Him, if the only reason you go to Mass is because you're told to? For a God who made us with free will and minds of our own, it just doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps it's because I grew up as a Protestant, where people went to church every Sunday because they loved God and they chose to spend time with Him-- not because they're afraid of breaking the "rules". Because that just leads to--and there are exceptions, I am aware-- a Church full of people who are so intent on following the rules and the letter of the law that they miss the spirit of it. And that just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.





“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
-G. K. Chesterton

"We can believe what we choose...

but we will be judged on what we choose to believe."
-Cardinal Newman

So, back in the swing of things here at school after Christmas vay-cay (full of family, coffee, good books, and Law & Order), and just finished the first week of the new semester. History classes? All good. Especially 20th Century European History- must read from that class for everyone is Regeneration, by Pat Barker, which deals with World War I soldiers and shell-shock and questions of love and hate and life and trauma. The characters are soooo realistic.

Also reading (or plan on reading):

1. Toward a Theology of the Body by Mary Timothy Prokes, FSE (cause Christopher West drives me insane but that's no reason to discount the entire teaching)
2. Beads & Prayers: The Rosary in History and Devotion by John D. Miller
3. Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Antoinette May

And for another list....

Things I love on this Friday in January:

• snow
• cozy hoodies
• Starbucks mild-blend Columbia, taken black.
• being a history nerd (give me a monacle, SMcCleanie!)
• intellectual snobbery-----or not, JStran....how should we phrase it?
• riveting classes
• the Food Network. FASCINATING.
• referring to people by nicknames they will never know ;-)
• Harry Potter. The end.
• pretty dresses

Off to read, or perhaps snooze. More later!

“Has any consideration been given to a fund-raiser with more dignity?” asked Linder.
“Dignity?” sniffed the mayor. “You can’t raise cash money with dignity. It’s hard enough to sell history, much less dignity.”
-A Light in the Window by Jan Karon, pg 366

Life is this simple...

We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through it all the time.
-Thomas Merton

Happiness is...

• fresh, hot coffee in the morning
• cuddling with the boy you care so much about :)
• breakfasts with friends you wouldn't trade for the world
• accomplishing work ahead of time
• learning something while doing said work!
• email- oh, the glory that is technology.
• cozy hoodies
• lilac-scented candles...I personally believe heaven smells like lilacs :)
• the anticipation of vacation
• a God who cared so much about me He became a tiny, helpless baby- and then sacrificed Himself for me
• fluffy, cozy bedclothes
• the Mitford series, by Jan Karon
• kindred spirits

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
- Henry David Thoreau

"What more could he have asked of this life? A job to do, a warm home filled with intoxicating smells, a dog of his own, a growing boy, and all of it covered by the astonishing facts of the nativity."
-Fr. Tim, A Light in the Window by Jan Karon

“Man, on the whole...

does not enjoy prayer.”
-Romano Guardini

Why is it, I wonder, did I gravitate towards the above quote as soon as I read it? Why don't I enjoy prayer? When I saw a book on prayer at the local library by one of my favorite Christian authors, I leaped for it. It's called Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?, and it's written by Philip Yancey, who is a fantastic writer (he's editor-at-large, by the way, at Christianity Today, the link to which I have to the left of this post under favorite links). I'll admit, I struggle with prayer; Yancey says that, "To some people prayer seems, as George Buttrick put it, 'a spasm of words lost in a cosmic indifference'..." and in my darker moments, I'm one of those people (15). However, there's something about his words on prayer that motivate me and make me feel more open to what can ultimately be, at times, such a frustrating exercise:

On why prayer is necessary:
"Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view." (pg 21-22)

On society's condemnation of religion:
"How odd, that prayer seems foolish to some people who base their lives on media trends, superstition, instinct, hormones, social propriety, or even astrology." (pg 22)

"Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question." (51)

On persisting in prayer:
"We pray in faith that our words somehow cross a bridge between visible and invisible worlds, penetrating a reality of which we have no proof. We enter God's milieu, the realm of spirit, which seems much less real to us than it did to Adam." (22-23)

On why we should pray, if God already knows all:
"We are completely known to God, said C.S. Lewis...We can assent with all our will to be so known; we can unveil before God; we can offer ourselves to view. We can invite God into our lives and ourselves into God's. When we do that, putting ourselves on a personal footing with God, so to speak, relationship heats up and a potential for extraordinary friendship stirs to life. For God is a Person, too, and though a person unlike ourselves, One who surely fulfills more of what that word means, not less." (62)

"When I shift direction, I realize that God already cares about my concerns...more than I do. Grace, like water, descends to the lowest part." (23)

I hope you find these quotes as inspiring as I did...and I'll post more later!

Here are some lyrics from two of my favorite musical prayers:
Gratitude by Nichole Nordeman
So grant us peace, Jesus, grant us peace
Move our hearts to hear a single beat
Between alibis and enemies tonight
Or maybe not, not today
Peace might be another world away
And if that's the case . . .
We'll give thanks to You
With gratitude
For lessons learned in how to trust in You
That we are blessed beyond what we could ever dream
In abundance or in need
And if You never grant us peace

Indescribable by Chris Tomlin
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom