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SPECIAL REQUEST FOR A VERY SPECIAL WRITER, BLOGGER AND A FRIEND. LET'S ALL JOIN OUR HANDS TOGETHER IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND PRAY.

Thanks all for joining in.

Probably all of us are truly feeling sad today for the passing of a great friend. Simmo.

May I please request all of us to say a prayer for him.

I'm still shocked and as I've been very busy with other things lately I didn't even learn until the blog of Teddy. Thank You Teddy for the info.

I know most of us here that had been for a while knew what happened last year.

Another member on here whom I will not mention her name, broke his heart so he requested my help with another good member to help him in the research of that person. We didn't succeed but him and I had been communicating in our personal mail but never mentioned if he was sick or not. He was absolutely one of the best bloggers on here and I will terribly miss him.

Please join me in a prayer for his soul.

Thank you all so much.

Our dear Simmo wherever you are, we love you.

May you rest in peace.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalms 91:1 KJV

A compilation Jun 02, 2015

You can always drop a little love into the hearts of those on your way, and they will know that God has loved them that day.—David Brandt Berg

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The smallest bark on life’s tumultuous ocean
Will leave a track behind for evermore;
The slightest wave of influence set in motion
Extends and widens to the eternal shore.

Every one of us casts a shadow. There hangs about us a sort of penumbra1—a strange, indefinable something—which we call personal influence, which has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it, and then lay it aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our life, like light from a lamp, like heat from flame, like perfume from a flower.

No one can live, and not have influence. Says Elihu Burritt: “No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness, not only of the present, but of every subsequent age of humanity. No one can detach himself from this connection. There is no sequestered spot in the universe, no dark niche along the disk of non-existence, to which he can retreat from his relations to others, where he can withdraw the influence of his existence upon the moral destiny of the world; everywhere his presence or absence will be felt, everywhere he will have companions who will be better or worse for his influence.” These are true words. To be at all is to have influence, either for good or evil, over other lives.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that goes out from us. Others watch us and their actions are modified by ours. Many a life has been started on a career of beauty and blessing by the influence of one noble act. The disciples saw their Master praying, and were so impressed by his earnestness, or by the radiancy they saw on his face, as he communed with his Father, that when he joined them again they asked him to teach them how to pray. Every true soul is impressed continually by the glimpses it has of loveliness, of holiness, or of nobleness in others.

Every good life leaves in the world a twofold ministry: that of the things it does directly to bless others, and that of the silent influence it exerts, through which others are made better, or are inspired to do like good things.—J. R. Miller2

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There is a silent personal influence, like a shadow, which goes out from everyone, and this influence is always leaving results and impressions wherever it touches. You cannot live a day and not touch some other life. Wherever you go, your shadow falls on others, and they are either better or worse for your presence. Our influence depends upon what we are more than upon what we do. It is by living a beautiful life that we bless the world. I do not underestimate holy activities. Good deeds must characterize every true life. Our hands must do mighty works. But if the life itself is noble, beautiful, holy, Christ-like, one that is itself a blessing, an inspiration, the worth of the influence is many times multiplied.

Every Christian can preach sermons every day—at home and among neighbors and friends—by the beauty of holiness in his own common life. Wherever a true Christian goes, his life ought to be an inspiration. Our silent influence ought to touch other lives with blessing. People ought to feel stronger, happier, more earnest after meeting us. Our very faces ought to shed light, shining like holy lamps into sad and weary hearts. Our lives ought to be blessings to human sorrow and need all about us.—J. R. Miller





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As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16 KJV

Says a thoughtful writer, speaking of influence: “Let a man press nearer to Christ, and open his nature more widely to admit the energy of Christ, and, whether he knows it or not—it is better, perhaps, if he does not know it—he will certainly be growing in power for God with men, and for men with God.” We get power for Christ only as we become filled with the very life of Christ.

Everywhere about us there are lives, cold, cheerless, and dull, which by the touch of our hand, in loving warmth, in Christ’s name, would be wondrously blessed and transformed. Someone tells of going into a jeweler’s store to look at certain gems. Among other stones he was shown an opal. As it lay there, however, it appeared dull and altogether lusterless. Then the jeweler took it in his hand and held it for some moments, and again showed it to his customer. Now it gleamed and flashed with all the glories of the rainbow. It needed the touch and warmth of a human hand to bring out its iridescence.

There are human lives everywhere about us that are rich in their possibilities of beauty and glory. No gems or jewels are so precious; but as we see them in their earthly condition, they are dull and lusterless, without brightness or loveliness. Perhaps they are even covered with stain and denied by sin. Yet they need only the touch of the hand of Christ to bring out the radiance, the loveliness, the beauty of the divine image in them. And you and I must be the hand of Christ to these lusterless or stained lives. Touching them with our warm love, the sleeping splendor that is in them … will yet shine out, the beginning of glory for them.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold us.

Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life the implicit is never conscious; if it is conscious, it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.—Oswald Chambers

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Everybody has influence! “No man liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.” Your life is bound to affect others! “No man is an island!” Sometimes just a word or a glance or a smile can make a big difference—how you look or sound or seem. If it’s not cheerful and victorious and uplifting, it’s bound to hurt somebody and pull them down with you. You’re either going to pull people up to your level or drag them down to yours—one or the other!—David Berg

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There is never an end of opportunities for personal helpfulness... There is a rich, possible wayside ministry, for instance, made up of countless small courtesies, gentle words, mere passing touches on the lives of those we casually meet! Impulses given by putting a little more warmth into our ordinary salutations; influences flowing directly or indirectly from the things we do, and the words we speak.

We naturally crave gentleness. It is like a genial summer to our life. Beneath its warm, nourishing influence, beautiful things in us grow.—J. R. Miller

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You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.—Mat. 5:13–16





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I wrote this for my family when my father passed in 2001. I've shared it many, many times since.


Dear family,
God has held my face in his hands..no need to worry, no need to be sad.
I've looked into a beautiful angel's eyes. I'm surrounded by pure love, your heart no longer needs to cry.
I now live in this amazing place. I walk on streets of white clouds, in the same path of Jesus' grace.
I am always with you. Sometimes I whisper in your ear. I love you so much, now lay to rest your fears.
I'm strong in spirit but I still feel your pain. I am always with you. I reach out to touch you with every drop of rain.
I call out your name as the wind blows. I am always with you, so let your sorrow go.
I shine for you with the stars in the sky. I am always with you. I warm your heart with every sunrise.
And when your days are no longer cold you'll feel me hold you close with spread wings of gold.
My body may be gone but my heart still roams. I know you think I was taken too soon, but now I am truly home.

THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTES ON THE SUBJECT OF HEAVEN!

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Cartoonist Arthur Brisbane once pictured a crowd of grieving caterpillars carrying the corpse of a cocoon to its final resting place. The poor, distressed caterpillars, clad in black raiment, were weeping, and all the while the beautiful butterfly fluttered happily above the muck and the mire of Earth, forever freed from its earthly shell.

Needless to say, Brisbane had the average funeral in mind and sought to convey the idea that when our loved ones pass, it is foolish to remember only the cocoon and concentrate our attention on the remains, while forgetting the bright butterfly.

Dr. Werner von Braun, well-known for his part in pioneering the U.S. space program, said that he had "essentially scientific" reasons for believing in life after death. He explained: "Science has found that nothing can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies the fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of the universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation--the human soul? I think it does."

The English scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) is considered to have been one of the greatest experimental physicists. When Faraday was questioned on his speculations of a life after death, he replied:
"Speculations? I know nothing about speculations. I'm resting on certainties. I know that my Redeemer lives, and because He lives, I shall live also."

"We shall not rest from our work but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work. --Anonymous

"Heaven is not all rest. On the door is inscribed: 'No admission except on business.'--Anonymous

"You grow to heaven. You don't go to heaven. "--Edgar Cayce

"Heaven would be a very hell to a wicked person."--David Berg

"I'm not afraid of death. It's just that I don't want to be there when it happens."-- Woody Allen

"To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil."--Socrates

"The best way to get to heaven is to take it with you. " --Henry Drummond

"Your religion is where your love is." --Henry David Thoreau

"No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today." -- Fra Giovanni

"Heaven-- the treasury of everlasting life.--William Shakespeare

"Love rules the camp, the court, the grove -- for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.--Lord Byron

"Be assured that just as an hour is only part of a day, so life on Earth is only part of eternity.--C.L. Allen

"Surely it is not wrong for us to think and talk about Heaven. I like to find out all I can about it. I expect to live there through all eternity. If I were going to dwell in any place in this country, if I were going to make it my home, I would inquire about its climate, about the neighbors I would have -- about everything, in fact, that I could learn concerning it. If soon you were going to emigrate, that is the way you would feel. Well, we are all going to emigrate in a very little while. We are going to spend eternity in another world. Is it not natural that we should look and listen and try to find out who is already there and what is the route to take?--Dwight L. Moody

"It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that's where we're going to spend eternity. It's an important place -- our eternal home. So it's only natural to want to know what it's like and what we're going to be like when we get there.--David Berg





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"Love is a good disposition of the soul by which one prefers no being to the knowledge of God. It is impossible to reach the habit of this love if one has any attachment to earthly things." 400 Chapters on Love, 1.1
"If the soul is better than the body, and God is incomparably better than the world which He created, the one who prefers the body to the soul and the world to God who created it is no different from idolaters." 400 Chapters on Love, 1.7
"The work of love is the deliberate doing of good to one's neighbor as well as long-suffering and patience and the use of all things in the proper way." 400 Chapters on Love, 1.40
"What anyone loves he surely holds on to, and looks down on everything that hinders his way to it so as not to be deprived of it. And the one who loves God cultivates pure prayer and throws off from himself every passion which hinders him." 400 Chapters on Love, 2.7
"If you hate some people and some you neither love nor hate, while others you love only moderately and still others you love very much, know from this inequality that you are far from perfect love, which lays down that you must love everyone equally." 400 Chapters on Love, 2.10
"When a person loves someone, he is naturally eager to be of service. So if one loves God, he is naturally eager to do what is pleasing to Him. But if he loves his flesh, he is eager to accomplish what delights it." 400 Chapters on Love, 3.10
"Not so much out of necessity has gold become enviable by men as that with it most of them can provide for their pleasures.
"There are three reasons for the love of money: pleasure-seeking, vainglory, and lack of faith. And more serious than the other two is lack of faith.
"The hedonist loves money because with it he lives in luxury; the vain person because with it he can be praised; the person who lacks faith because he can hide it and keep it while in fear of hunger, or old age, or illness, or exile. He lays his hope on it rather than on God the Maker and Provider of the whole creation, even of the last and least of living things."
"There are found kinds of people who acquire money, the three just mentioned and the financial administrator. Obviously only he acquires it for the right reason: so that he might never run short in relieving each one's need." 400 Chapters on Love, 3.16-19
"In bringing into existence a rational and intelligent nature, God in His supreme goodness had communicated ot it four of the divine attributes by which He maintains, guards, and preserves creatures: being, eternal being, goodness, and wisdom. The first two He grants to the essence, the second two to its faculty of will; that is, to the essene He gives being and eternla being, and to the volitive faculty He gives goodness and wisdom in order that what He is by essence the creature might become by participation. For this reason man is said to be made 'to the image and likeness of God': to the image of His being by our being, to the image of His eternal being by our eternal being (even though not without a beginning, it is yet without end); to the likeness of His goodness by our goodness, to the image of His wisdom by our wisdom. The first is by nature, the second by grace. Every rational nature indeed is made to the image of God; but only those who are good and wise are made to His likeness." 400 Chapters on Love, 3.25
"Love of God is always fond of flying off to hold converse with Him; love of neighbor prepares the mind to think always well of him." 400 Chapters on Love, 4.40
"Many people have said much about love, but only in seeking it among Christ's disciples will you find it, for only they have the true love, the teacher of love, of whom it is written, 'If I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge but do not have love, it profits me nothing.' Therefore, the one who possesses love possesses God Himself, since 'God is love.' To Him be glory forever. Amen. 400 Chapters on love, 4.100

For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren... Hebrews 2:11(KJV)

We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it.--David Berg

ON THE JOYS OF HEAVEN. There is no good in this life but what is mingled with some evil; honors perplex, riches disquiet, and pleasures ruin health. But in heaven we shall find blessings in their purity, without any ingredient to embitter, with everything to sweeten them. O! who is able to conceive the inexpressible, inconceivable joys that are there? None but they who have tasted of them. Lord, help us to put such a value upon them here, that in order to prepare ourselves for them, we may be willing to forego the loss of all those deluding pleasures here.

How will the heavens echo of joy, when the bride, the Lamb's wife, shall come to dwell with her husband for ever! Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father; what solace then must that soul be filled with that hath the possession of him to all eternity? O! what acclamations of joy will there be when all the children of God shall meet together, without fear of being disturbed by the Antichrist and Cainish brood! Is there not a time coming when the godly may ask the wicked what profit they have in their pleasure? what comfort in their greatness? and what knit in all their labor? If you would be better satisfied what the beautiful vision means, my request is that you would live holy, and go and see.--John Bunyan, author of Pilgrims Progress

"Heaven is a city without a cemetery--Anonymous

"Heaven is something that we can easily get excited and thrilled about and look forward to. It will be like Christmas is for children, only it will be the greatest Christmas we've ever had!--David Berg

"Heaven and the spirit world are much more real, beautiful and lasting than the world which you can see with your natural eyes at this very moment.--David Berg

"Where is there a country without sin, crime, lawlessness, bloodshed, disease, death, sorrow and heartache? Heaven is a country in which there is the absence of all that is common to any land, for in God's country there are no barriers, no walls or curtains to divide; no race barrier; no soldiers because there are no wars; no policemen because there is no crime or sin; no undertakers because there are no graves; no physicians because germs, fevers, pestilences, diseases are unknown; no thieves because there is no darkness. Who would not yearn for this better and more desirable country in which there are no separations, no broken homes, no drunkards, no prisons, no hospitals, no beggars, no persons who are blind, deaf, dumb or destitute? What a country! Are you not homesick for Heaven?--H. Lockyer

"Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks -- with all the assets but none of the liabilities.--David Berg

"In Heaven, you're going to get just about whatever you want. Heaven's the place where all your heart's desires will be fulfilled -- if they're good ones. Put in your order now!--David Berg

"The more of Heaven we cherish, the less of Earth we covet.--David Berg

"If we really understood Heaven, we would be most unhappy and unsatisfied with life on Earth. We would rebel against our earthly limitations. If we saw Heaven, we could not bear this earth. That's why Heaven is forever: we cannot bear to leave it after we get there.--C.L. Allen





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For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes - Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. 1 Corinthians 11:26 & Matthew 28:20 KJV

No Disappointment In Heaven

"Heaven is a permanent residence, a place where we unpack our bags and stay forever. What a glorious thought to wake up in Heaven and realize it is home!--C.L. Allen

Life After Life!

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.--Rabindranath Tagore

"Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.--David Berg

Let us believe that when death comes, and it will come sooner or later to every human being, we can be assured it will come as a friend who lovingly leads us to our eternal home, Heaven.--C.L. Allen

"Death is but a passage out of a prison into a palace.--Anonymous

"Living is death; dying is life. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans, on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, freemen; on this side, disguised, unknown; on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God. --Henry Ward Beecher

"What we call life is a journey to death. What we call death is the gateway to life.--Anonymous

"I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.--Lyman Abbott

"To die is to go and live in another home.--C.L. Allen

"I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, "She is gone." Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, "She is gone," there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" That is dying. --Henry Scott Holland

"This world is to be likened to the porch; the world to come unto the palace." --The Talmud

"When Robert Browning's father lay dying -- he was past eighty at the time -- his cheerfulness alarmed the attending physician. "Does the old gentleman know he is dying?" the doctor inquired of his daughter in a low voice. The father overheard him and smiled, "Death is no enemy in my eyes."

"Peace, peace! He is not dead, he does not sleep --He hath wakened from the dream of life. --Percy Bysshe Shelley, writing about the death of his friend John Keats

"The Apostle Paul wrote, "The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18). The physical dies away, but the spiritual is forever."--David Berg

"[In the day of death:] Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.--King Solomon Ecclesiastes 12:7

"Your body is not the real you. It's just the physical house you live in. The real you is your spirit, which will live on forever.--David Berg

"From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.--H.W. Longfellow

"God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for He shall receive me. (Psalm 49:15)--King David

"When I die, do not sound taps over my grave, but reveille -- the morning call, the summons to rise."-- A soldier

"The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here. ... Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the Author.-- Epitaph of Benjamin Franklin






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If reality does not exist without observation...Do we exist because we are "observed?"...

Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Matthew 2:2-3 KJV

"Death is not something to be feared, but rather anticipated. Of course, we are not to precipitate it ourselves, as suicide is surrender and defeat of the worst kind. But if each of us can have the patience to wait and die in God's time, when His time has come for us, that's the day we're going to be the most thankful. We're going to arrive in our heavenly home and see that it was really worth it all!--David Berg

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." (1 Corinthians 15:26)--St Paul

"Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.--David Berg

"Even though we have so much to live for on this earth, there is even more to live for in the next life. Death does not cheat a person out of life; death enriches life.--C.L. Allen

"When Christ calls me Home I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school.--Adoniram Judson, first Christian missionary to Burma

"I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. (John 11:25,26)--Jesus

"Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone up higher, that is all; out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal, a body that death cannot touch."-- Dwight L. Moody

"Because I live, ye shall live also."--Jesus, (John 14:19)

"I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.--John Donne

"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.--2 Corinthians 5:1

"God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.--Jesus, Matthew 22:32

"Jesus said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed" (Matthew 13:31). Just as the seed is the beginning of growth, so this life is the beginning but not the end. We continue living the moment our spirits are released from our bodies.--C.L. Allen

Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you" (John14:2). We do not enter the next life as strangers. We are expected and prepared for. We are eagerly desired.--C.L. Allen
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MAN'S BEST IS THE WORST POSSIBLE WITHOUT GOD!

God knows what He's doing! He's letting man go to the end of his rope just to show man he can't solve his own problems and he can't get along without God. Just like He did with Adam and Eve, He'll let man have his way and free will until he nearly wrecks the whole world! That's the only way He can work out His purpose and His illustrated message of the good and the bad as an everlasting example to us all!

But at the same time, He'll show how wonderful creations of His can be who are not compelled to worship Him but choose to do so voluntarily--us, His chosen people who have chosen Him. He'll bring out of that mess a people unto Himself that He can really love and show His love for! The final scene shines so bright against all that black background! And that's what we have to look forward to, the light at the end of the tunnel! Thank You, Lord! DM




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