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I'm 19 years old, so I've been writing for only seriously for a few years off and on, this may sound off but i use to hate, hate poetry i dreaded having an assignment in class. One year in school, we had assignment i was well quite wonder-some and very i suppose depressed in sight of the world and everything else, and well after i did the assignment, the teacher said out of ther 200 students she has 1 of the 2 people said you had 'real talent, and yours definitely stood out' i was shocked, and didn't think much of it until well a year and half later'at the touch of love' i became a sincere poet , and my writing as a carried on a bit from there, Thanks for your reading and kind words, they are much appreciated, I hope you shall enjoy all of them as time permits. I shall check out more of yours as so do you likewise. =)
Aaron

Below are my favorite quotes:

"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl."

"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness."

"The sermon cannot rise in its life-giving forces above the man. Dead men give out dead sermons, and dead sermons kill. Everything depends on the spiritual character of the preacher. Under the Jewish dispensation the high priest had inscribed in jeweled letters on a golden frontlet: "Holiness to the Lord." So every preacher in Christ's ministry must be molded into and mastered by this same holy motto. It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of character and holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood. Jonathan Edwards said: "I went on with
my eager pursuit after more holiness and conformity to Christ. The heaven I desired was a heaven of holiness." The gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves. It has no self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of it move. The preacher must impersonate the gospel. Its divine, most distinctive features must be embodied in him. The constraining power of love must be in the preacher as a projecting, eccentric, an all-commanding, self-oblivious force. The
energy of self-denial must be his being, his heart and blood and bones. He must go forth as a man among men, clothed with humility, abiding in meekness, wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove; the bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child. The preacher must throw himself, with all the abandon of a perfect, self-emptying faith and a self-consuming zeal, into his work for the salvation of men. Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God. If they be timid timeservers, place seekers, if they be men pleasers or men fearers, if their faith has a weak hold on God or his Word, if their denial be broken by any phase of self or the world, they cannot take hold of the Church nor the world for God. The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. The training of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for Godmen always preaching by holy
sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
After this order, the early Christians were formed. Men they were of solid mold, preachers after the heavenly typeheroic, stalwart, soldierly, saintly. Preaching with them meant self-denying, self-crucifying, serious, toilsome, martyr business. They applied themselves to it in a way that told on their generation, and formed in its womb a generation yet unborn for God. The preaching man is to be the praying man. Prayer is the preacher's mightiest weapon. An almighty force in itself, it gives life and force to all. The real sermon is made in the closet. The manGod's manis made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God. The burdened and tearful agony of his spirit, his weightiest and sweetest messages were got when alone with God. Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor. The pulpit of this day is weak in praying. The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. Prayer is with the pulpit too often only officiala performance for the routine of service. Prayer is not to the modern pulpit the mighty force it was in Paul's life or Paul's ministry. Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world."

" Poverty is not being without money, but being without hope."

"Present is all lit up with eternal rays."

" Love is God’s greatest gift. But if it remains distant, unwrapped, seen only from the outside in, it is a gift hard to
understand. Love is different words in every language, but in deeds it’s the same in any language. It is everything to
Christians and nothing to tennis players. It is celebrated and misunderstood. Like a child staring at a wrapped Christmas
gift, love can be an unfathomable mystery. Philosophers wax about it. Singers croon it. Poets lament it. Capitalists market
it. Hollywood exploits it. Evolutionary biologists analyze it. Kings demand it. Performers crave it. Demons fear it. Stoics
ignore it. Skeptics deny it. Psychiatrists prescribe it. Geneticists identify it. Historians record it. Novelists depicts it. Artists
illustrate it. Parsons preach it. Playboys diminish
Movies plot it. Cynics mock it. Governments tax it. Politicians
showcase it. Nobility refines it. Children need it. But the mystery of it is best understood by saints from the inside out, for
only when it is unwrapped and used is it ever understood. Saints live it…because God is it."


"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither."

“Light a candle rather than curse the darkness.”


"Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

“One must desire something to be alive”

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

"Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the heart"

"I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me"

"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up"

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realize it sooner"

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

"Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principals"


“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”

“I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things. I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy. I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life. I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

"The Devil promises you the whole world but doesn't own a grain of sand"

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

"Be the change you wish to see in the world"

"I try to live my life as if tomorrow is never promised. When I'm dead and gone, I would hope people would say "There's a guy who lived life. Life didn't live him.""

"Never Leave the One You Love for the One You Like. Cause the One You Like Will Leave You for the One They Love "

"Someday your life will flash before your eyes, Make sure it's worth watching."

"There is a difference between religion and salvation.
Religion is man trying to do something for God
-salvation is God doing something for man."

"Law condemns the best man; grace saves the worst man."

"God saves us, not for what we are, but what can he make us."

"Those who live right won't get left"

"A sunset is heaven's gate ajar"

"For a Christian, death is a last shadow before heaven's dawn"

When I say..."I am a Christian"
I'm not shouting "I am saved"
I'm whispering "I get lost!"
"That is why I chose this way."

When I say..."I am a Christian"
don't speak of this with pride.
I'm confessing that I stumble
and need someone to be my guide.

When I say..."I am a Christian"
I'm not trying to be strong.
I'm professing that I'm weak
and pray for strength to carry on.

When I say..."I am a Christian"
I'm not bragging of success.
I'm admitting I have failed
and cannot ever pay the debt.

When I say..."I am a Christian"
I'm not claiming to be perfect,
my flaws are too visible
but God believes I'm worth it.

When I say..."I am a Christian"
I still feel the sting of pain
I have my share of heartaches
which is why I seek His name.

When I say..."I am a Christian"
I do not wish to judge.
I have no authority.
I only know I'm loved

"Character is what a person is in the dark."

"Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ's 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity."

"From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same - majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle. Throughout a life passed under the public eye, He never gives occasion to find fault. The prudence of His conduct compels our admiration by its union of force and gentleness. Alike in speech and action, He is enlightened, consistent, and calm. Sublimity is said to be an attribute of divinity: what name, then, shall we gave Him in whose character were united every element of the sublime?"

"I know Men; and I will tell you that Jesus is not a man. Everything in him amazes me. His spirit outreaches mine, and His will confounds me. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other being in the world. He is truly a being by Himself. His ideas and His sentiments; the truth that He announces; His manner of convincing; are all beyond humanity and the natural order of things.

"His birth, and the story of His life; the profoundness of His doctrine, which overturns all difficulties, ans is their most complete solution; His Gospel; The singularity of his mysterious being; His appearance; His empire; His progress through all centuries and kingdoms; all this is to me a prodigy, an unfathomable mystery."

"I see nothing here of man. Near as I may approach, closely as I may examine, all remains above my comprehension-great with a greatness that crushes me. It is vain that I reflect- all remains unaccountable!"

" I defy you to cite another life like Jesus Christ"