Remember when Maria sang about her favorite things in the Sound of Music?
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
brown paper packages tied up with strings,
these are a few of my favorite things"
(Hard to not sing those lines, isn't it.......go on.......how about "girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes........When the dog bites, when the bee stings....")
I have some of my own favorite things that help when the "dog bites and the bee stings" which are some of my favorite quotes, thoughts, and lines I've culled from Lord-knows-where. They encourage, provoke, reprove, and inspire me as they offer me food for thought.
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For a parent ceases to be his child’s hero when the child knows that at any moment he can, if he chooses, make her his victim. We are indeed his victims when we add to his fit by responding with our own. -- Karen Andreola, A Charlotte Mason Companion
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When you send your children to Caesar to be educated; don’t be surprised when they come back Romans. --Voddie Baucham
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"Blessed are those taught at home, for they shall receive an education." --author unknown
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'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.' --Ronald Reagan
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'Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.' - William Penn
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"We might have landed right on our face, but THIS foundation was solid, and it was there we landed." -- Mary Beth Chapman (After the loss of her 5 yr old daughter)
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To inoculate me from the praise of man, He baptized me in the criticism of man until I died to control of man. ~Francis Frangipane, Exposing the Accuser of the Brethren
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The Lord’s Prayer has 57 words.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg address has 266 words.
The Ten Commandments have 297 words.
The Declaration of Independence has 300 words.
The Department of Agriculture order setting the price of cabbage has 26,911 words.
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When you are not in control, the only thing you can control is how you respond. – Craig Minor
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“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever. – Thomas Jefferson
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“I cannot control others or change others. I can control myself. Others will respond to the change in me.” -- author unknown
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“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you sit still.” ~Will Rogers
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“Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting, died.” ~C.S. Lewis
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“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” - Will Rogers
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"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption." — President James Garfield, July 4, 1876
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“Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” –Katrina Gutleben
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“Is there a better way to advance evil, error and confusion in the Church than to shame and silence the discerners of heresy, blasphemy and scriptural confusion?” --Paul Proctor
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“Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.” – John Dewey ("hero" of American education and Socialist.)
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