Friday Quote Collection | Food For Weekend Thought 5/25/2012

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Friday Quote Collection May 25th, 2012
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" Assembled by R. VARGA

FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS // 2012-05-25
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"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to."
- Unknown

"The tree of revenge does not carry fruit."
- Dutch Proverb

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
- William James

"There is no darkness but ignorance."
- William Shakespeare

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
- Corra Harris

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again."
- Alex Tan

"Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits."
- Paul Eldridge

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
- Saint Augustine

"Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever you do, do well."
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
- Og Mandino

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
- Aldous Huxley

"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."
- Seneca

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Words of Wisdom: Malachi 3:3 - Refiner and Purifier of Silver

Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.

One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver. As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver."

She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.

The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"

He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy - when I see my image in it."

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has His eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.

- Author unknown