After once again riffling through the Great Quote Files, I pulled up the following:
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. –James M. Barrie
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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‘finding neverland’ is that the one where Michael Jackson has a cameo?……..
‘finding neverland’ is that the one where Michael Jackson has a cameo?……..
If he does, I don’t remember it and didn’t even think of him in connection to that film. To the pure all things are pure…. 😉
Joe,
Stop reading the bathroom wall 😉
This quote is clearly false. Are these quotes meant to be good in themselves or just conversation starters? This one is almost as bad as “if you believe in yourself you can do anything.”
This quote is clearly false. Are these quotes meant to be good in themselves or just conversation starters? This one is almost as bad as “if you believe in yourself you can do anything.”
J.R., the quote is no more false than other grandiose promises such as Matthew 19:26 and Philippians 4:13. It just depends on the assumptions you bring to the table while reading the promises.
In all fairness, the quote does have Christian parallels, depending on the interpreter. I’m not familiar with the context but I as a Christian might read it as such:
dream: ‘a hope’
wish: ‘long for’
Therefore: “Something hoped for may come true if it is only longed for enough.” That something for a Christian should be union with god. And if we long for it hard enough, with God’s grace it will be ours.
–Re: “having anything in life” this again, if interpreted by a Christian sounds remarkably similar to the pearl of great price. Of course, anything for a Christian implies that which conforms to the will of God.
Could a pagan intrepet this quote differently? Of course.
Joe,
Yeah, I was thinking Pearl of Great Price, also.
Michelle, Jimmy should have your ‘Quote Of The Day’ posts on this blog every day. We all are in need of a little humor 🙂
Oops, wrong combox. Sorry.
I actually had mixed feelings about the movie Finding Neverland. The man may have been in a stagnant marriage, but even if he did not have a sexual relationship with the other woman, he certainly gave to her the kind of emotional commitment owed solely to his own wife. I will say what I always do about marriage: When you are married, and you feel yourself attracted to someone other than your spouse, avoid them like the plague. Falling in love with someone else, or even developing an emotional attachment to someone else to such a degree that you neglect your own spouse, is not possible if you do not let yourself even entertain the possibility.