The Status Quotes
August 2011
Date Quote Old Testament Reference New Testament Reference
Monday,
August 1, 2011		 "...but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."
-Joshua Nunson
Joshua 24:14-15

"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household."
-Paul the Apostle & Silas
Acts 16:30-31		 Joshua
24:14-15		 Acts
16:30-31
Tuesday,
August 2, 2011		 "Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His Glory and Grace."

-Helen H. Lemmel		 Daniel
12:3		 Matthew
13:43-46
Wednesday,
August 3, 2011		 "Yahweh, when You did go out from Seir, when You did march from the field of Edom,
The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped, even the clouds dripped water."
-Mrs. Lappidoth & Barak Abinoamson
Judges 5:4

"If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay."
-Lydia of Thyatira
Acts 16:13-15		 Judges
5:4		 Acts
16:13-15
Thursday,
August 4, 2011		 "...[Jesus is] the loftiest idea in literature.
...He guards and He guides,
...He's the Head of the heroes,
...I wish I could describe Him to you, but He's indescribable;
...you can't outlive Him, and you can't live without Him.
...Pilate couldn't find any fault in Him.
...Herod couldn't kill Him,
Death couldn't handle Him,
and the Grave couldn't hold Him.

That's my King! ..."

-S. M. Lockridge		 Psalm
73:24		 Luke
23:42
Friday,
August 5, 2011		 "This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer and fasting."
-Jesus the LORD
Nehemiah 9:1-38
Mark 9:29

"How am I supposed to show love to somebody over and over and over who constantly rejects me?"
-Caleb Holt
Daniel 2:22
1 Corinthians 13:4-7		 Nehemiah
9:1-38

Daniel
2:22		 Mark
9:29

1 Corinthians
13:4-7
Saturday,
August 6, 2011		 "As I went down in the river to pray,
Studyin' about that Good Old Way and
Who shall wear the starry crown,
Good Lord, show me the way;
O fathers, let's go down, let's go down, come on down;
O fathers, let's go down, down in the river to pray."

-Alison Krauss
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
Ephesians 4:1

Always in Christ's Love,

Daniel Cross: Beaconlight		"Truth and justice make hope possible."

-Daniel Cross
Psalm 117:2
Amos 5:24
Colossians 1:27
 2 Chronicles
7:13-14

Psalm
117:2

Amos
5:24
 Ephesians
4:1

Colossians
1:27
Sunday,
August 7, 2011		 "Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three;
And although there were so many, the net was not torn."

-John the Apostle		 Psalm
107:9		 Luke
1:53

John
21:11
Monday,
August 8, 2011		 "In Your love I find release
A haven from my unbelief
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer, my God, to Thee"

-Alison Krauss		 2 Kings
6:17		 Mark
9:24
Tuesday,
August 9, 2011		 "Blessed is the one who comes in the name of Yahweh;
We have blessed you from the house of Yahweh."
-Psalm 118:26

"On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast,
When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Took the branches of the palm trees and went to meet Him,
And began to shout,
'Hosanna!
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD,
Even the King of Israel."
-John the Apostle
John 12:12-13		 Psalm
118:26		 John
12:12-13
Wednesday,
August 10, 2011		 "I must have a commitment to egg-cellence,
Because the yolk's often on me."

-Sonny Siedupp		 Job
12:4		 Luke
23:35-38
Thursday,
August 11, 2011		 "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout [in triumph], O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
He is just and endowed with salvation, humble,
And mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

-Zechariah 9:9		 Zechariah
9:9		 Matthew
20:5

John
12:14-15
Friday,
August 12, 2011		 "When you come to a fork in the road, pick it up and keep moving."

-Juan Rodonli		 Ecclesiastes
5:2		 John
14:4
Saturday,
August 13, 2011		 "He caused the storm to be still,
So that the waves of the sea were hushed."
-Psalm 107:29

"He says to them, 'Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?'
Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm."
-Matthew Levi the Apostle
Matthew 8:26		 Psalm
107:29		 Matthew
8:26
Sunday,
August 14, 2011		 "May Yahweh rain in our drought, rein in our doubt, and reign in our hearts."

-Juana Rainey Dey		 1 Kings
8:35-36		 Ephesians
2:12-13
Monday,
August 15, 2011		 "...'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' ..."

-Vizzini		 Proverbs
14:1		 Matthew
7:26-27
Tuesday,
August 16, 2011		 "Don't concern yourself with being right in others' eyes. And don't secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don't have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you."

-Josh Harris		 Jeremiah
1:17		 Acts
20:27
Wednesday,
August 17, 2011		 " 'When she saw, as she waited, [that] her hope was lost,
She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.' "

-Yahweh		 Ezekiel
19:5		 Matthew
11:2-6
Thursday,
August 18, 2011		 "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
If you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup;
You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle;
You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now, water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend."

-Bruce Lee		 Psalm
34:8

Isaiah
59:19		 John
7:37-38

1 Corinthians
9:19-23
Friday,
August 19, 2011		 "He's calling loud and clearly,
He's saying, 'Won't you hear Me?'
We see Him everywhere
And still we roll on by."

-Rebecca St. James		 Numbers
22:22-35		 Romans
1:20
Saturday,
August 20, 2011		 "She was a wise Young woman who trusted in the perfectness of His plan;
Even the lady whose intended place she didn't understand."
-Divine C. Kerr
Psalm 127:1
Luke 13:4

"Just as spelling can make all the difference in the word,
So also a preposition can bring overstanding and previously unrealized insight."
-Abel Graham Marion
Isaiah 6:4
Matthew 15:18		 Psalm
127:1

Isaiah
6:4		 Matthew
15:18

Luke
13:4
Sunday,
August 21, 2011		 "And you shall keep [your lamb] until the fourteenth of the same month,
Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight."

-Yahweh		 Exodus
12:6		 Matthew
27:25
Monday,
August 22, 2011		 "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

-Queen Gertrude		 Proverbs
29:5		 Matthew
6:1
Tuesday,
August 23, 2011		 "Like fruit picked green or a flower plucked before it blossoms, our attempts to rush God's timing can spoil the beauty of His plan for our lives. Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing."

-Josh Harris		 Ecclesiastes
3:1-11		 John
2:4
Wednesday,
August 24, 2011		 "[Joshua interjects] Where the Lord leads, there is no risk."

-Lionel Chetwynd		 Joshua
3:1--4:24		 Acts
6:8--7:60
Thursday,
August 25, 2011		 "...I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side...as a condemned soul...than enter heaven without you.
Because of your love...I will never be a lonely spirit."

-Master Li Mu Bai		 Proverbs
18:24		 Philippians
1:21
Friday,
August 26, 2011		 "Faith is knowing there is an ocean
When you can only see the stream."
-Pho Chunh Kuh Ki

"Stop it, Lizzie! Mr. Darcy's not half as high and mighty as YOU sometimes."
-Lydia Wickham
The Song of Songs 8:9
Luke 13:34

"...You need practice. I can teach you to fight with the Green Destiny,
But first you must learn to hold it in stillness."
-Master Li Mu Bai
Isaiah 49:2
Ephesians 6:12, 17		 The Song of Songs
8:9

Isaiah
49:2		 Luke
13:34

Ephesians
6:12, 17
Saturday,
August 27, 2011		 "God is indeed love;
For with but a thought He could bring everything in this sin-corrupted world to dust,
And with an afterthought bring that dust to nothing,
And yet He does not.

Tremble at His love and
Treble the praise of His Excellency."

-Terry Fayed-Baihem		 Psalm
150		 1 Corinthians
13
Sunday,
August 28, 2011		 "Are you really my son Esau?"

-Isaac the Patriarch		 Genesis
27		 Matthew
24:23
Monday,
August 29, 2011		 "You are what I want, Lord
You are what I ask for
You are what I'm longing for
'Cause at the end of the day
You alone will remain"

-Rebecca St. James		 Exodus
20:3		 Matthew
4:10
Tuesday,
August 30, 2011		 "And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much as usual--I loathe the slightest effort. Not only writing but even reading a letter is too much. Even shaving. What does it matter now whether my cheek is rough or smooth?"

-C. S. Lewis		 2 Samuel
12:22-23		 John
11:35
Wednesday,
August 31, 2011		 "If you find the world imitating you along the path whereon the True Love is leading,
Keep on the path with abandon,
And keep your guard up!"

-Tayston Sythillor Dyzgud		 Psalm
118:22-23		 Acts
4:7-12

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