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Song Title: Fum, Fum, Fum
Album: Christmas Celebration
Artist: Mannheim Steamroller

And this life sentence that I’m serving
I admit, that I’m every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
-from Be My Escape by Relient K

To be aware of one's lack of knowledge is to be merely untutored. A true ignorant is unaware of this lack.
-Vidanric, from Court Duel by Sherwood Smith

This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
-1 John 4:10 (NLT)

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
-John 15:4-5 (NIV)

If we suffer our people to be ill-educated and their manners corrupt from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education exposed them, what else can be concluded but that we first make thieves and then punish them?
-Utopia by Thomas Moore

Lord grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
-Psalm 139:7-8 (NIV)

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much - all of it wrong.
-Veralidaine Sarrasri, called Daine, from Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce

“One good deed is not enough to save a man from a lifetime of evil!”
“But it seems enough to condemn him...”
-Commodore Norrington and Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

Live every moment as though it was your last before the Thief of Always steals tomorrow from your grasp. Before the chance to know his love has somehow passed away. Let your heart reach out right here right now for the Lord to touch your life.
-Thief of Always by Jaci Valesquez

What am I going to be when I grow up? How am I going to make my mark on history? What are they going to write about me when I'm gone? These are the questions that shape the way I think about what matters. But there's no guarantee of my next heartbeat. The world's too big to make a name for myself. What if no one wants to read about me when I'm gone? Seems to me that right now's the only moment that matters.
-The Power of a Moment by Chris Rice

When the Storm Has Left the Sea

When the storm has left the sea
And the wind lays down its knife
The world will heave a sigh
But onward goes the strife

For now we must repair;
All the damage has been done
But some is lost forever
Broken hearts look t’ward the sun

It is much the same
When a battle has been waged
The battle of emotions
For God cannot be caged

So when the storm has left your heart
And the battle has been won
Surrender to Lord Jesus
Holy Spirit, Father, Son.

-May 1, 2002