The Status Quotes
April 2012
Date Quote Old Testament Reference New Testament Reference
Saturday,
April 14, 2012		 "Out of the corner of my eye, I see Peeta extend his hand. I look at him, unsure. 'One more time? For the audience?' he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."

-Katniss Everdeen		 Genesis 27:43-45 Philippians 1:21-24
"A GAME is an ongoing series of complementary ulterior transactions progressing to a well-defined, predictable outcome. Descriptively it is a recurring set of transactions, often repetitious, superficially plausible, with a concealed motivation; or, more colloquially, a series of moves with a snare, or 'gimmick.' ...Every game...is basically dishonest, and the outcome has a dramatic, as distinct from merely exciting, quality."

-Dr. Eric Berne		 Proverbs 14:11 Hebrews 9:11-12
"GOOD! Adaptation. Improvisation. But your weakness is not your technique... How did I beat you? ...Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? ...You think that's air you're breathing now?"

-Morpheus		 Zechariah 4:1-6 Ephesians 6:12
Sunday,
April 15, 2012		 "If you are not one of us, you are one of them. ...Sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system. That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the Matrix they are everyone and they are no one."

-Morpheus		 Daniel 10:10-13 Luke 8:26-33
1 John 4:1-7
"If we want true contentment, peace in our homes, and an end to marital strife
We must live for Jesus Christ, the only Guiding Light, not one, but all the days of our lives"

-Carman		 Song of Songs
2:7		 Philippians
4:11-13
Monday,
April 16, 2012
"Within Yahweh God is the Prime Relationship and the Proper Example for every other relationship. As such, He and HE ALONE is the Beginning and the End of every proper relationship, as well as a Stumbling Block for every improper one."

-Dot Sandlynes
 Genesis 1:26 John 17:20-26
"Maybe, just maybe, our God Yahweh--who is the True Love, and who knows everything--just might have some REALLY good reasons for the order He has established and for the instructions He has furnished. Maybe, just maybe, we should stop dodging His Word, and start doing it instead."

-Stan D'Inanga Zwird		 1 Samuel 15:1-35 1 Corinthians
14:20-40
Tuesday,
April 17, 2012		 "...I am their music."

-Jeremiah the Prophet		 Lamentations
3:55-66		 John 10:32
Wednesday,
April 18, 2012		 "Your teeth are like a flock of [newly] shorn ewes
Which have come up from [their] washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young."

-Song of Songs 4:2		 Song of Songs
4:2		 Matthew
27:27-31

Ephesians
5:17-21

1 Peter 2:1-8



Pomegranate slice...can you see?		"Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
And your mouth is lovely.
Your temples are like a slice of pomegranate
Behind your veil."

-Song of Songs 4:3

(lips - Luke 4:22
scarlet thread - Joshua 2:18
mouth - Revelation 1:16
temples...pomegranate - Matthew 27:30
veil - Hebrews 10:20)
 Joshua 2:18
Song of Songs
4:3		 Luke 4:22
Matthew 27:30
Hebrews 10:20
Revelation 1:16
Thursday,
April 19, 2012		 "The Matrix is everywhere. ...It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. ...That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind."

-Morpheus		 Psalm 14:1
Proverbs 10:21		 Ephesians 2:1-3
Friday,
April 20, 2012		 " 'I volunteer!' I gasp. 'I volunteer as tribute!'

There's some confusion on the stage. District 12 hasn't had a volunteer in decades and the protocol has become rusty. ...in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with corpse, volunteers are all but extinct."

-Katniss Everdeen		 Genesis 22:8 Hebrews 8:6
"Look, it's moving. It's alive. It's alive. It's alive, it's alive! IT'S ALIVE! In the name of God, now I know what it feels like to be God!"

-Henry Frankenstein		 Exodus 32:4 Romans 1:16-25
Saturday,
April 21, 2012		 "ST. JOHN
...and when we got through feeding five thousand hungry men and their families with what that little boy had in his basket--five small barley loaves, a few salt fish--I began to understand: Little could be much in Jesus' hands. He could take the little I was, and make me into something useful for His great purpose. [He could] do the same for you..."

-Don Berrigan		 Ezekiel 17:1-24 Mark 4:30-32
"Let's just ask God to take care of our friends. May they rest in peace... Amen."

-Harry Stamper		 Psalm 23:6 1 Thessalonians
5:5-11
Sunday,
April 22, 2012		 "I've been stung so many times, I have immunity. ...But since you don't, you need to know beeyard etiquette. ...You see, the world's really just one big beeyard. The same rules work in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-lovin' bee wants to sting you. But don't be an idiot. ...And don't swat. ...And above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved."

-August Boatright		 Proverbs 16:24 John 14:2
"They do well who respect the earth and care for it;
They do better who first respect Yahweh who created it, and care more for Him who rests His feet upon it."

-Holly Luya		 Isaiah 66:1 Matthew 5:35
Monday,
April 23, 2012		 "When the music fades, and all is stripped away, and I simply come, longing just to bring something that's of worth that will bless Your heart;
I'll bring You more than a song, for a song in itself is not what You have required; You search much deeper within, through the way things appear; You're looking into my heart; ..."

-Matt Redman		 Deuteronomy
4:23
Proverbs 4:23		 John 4:23
Philippians 4:23
"Won't You look down upon me, Jesus
You've got to help me make a stand
You've just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again"

-James Taylor		 Isaiah 59:1-21 Jude 9
Tuesday,
April 24, 2012		 "Think of the thousands of people in America tonight that serve God with their lips. They go to church and sing 'Oh, How I Love Jesus', but their heart is far from Him. Even while the sermon is being preached, you're thinking about what you're going to eat for lunch, you're thinking about a TV program you saw on Saturday night--if you're thinking about this one, it'll be alright."

-Billy Graham		 Proverbs 6:16, 18
Isaiah 29:11-16		 Matthew 15:1-9
Wednesday,
April 25, 2012		 "I'd rather be in the palm of Your hand
Though rich or poor I may be
Faith can see right through the circumstance
Sees the forest in spite of the trees
Your grace provides for me

...if I trust the One who died for me
Who shed His blood to set me free
If I live my life to trust in You
Your grace will see me through"

-Alison Krauss		 Psalm 18:35 John 10:27-30
"By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,
And a soft tongue breaks the bone."

-King Solomon		 Proverbs 25:15 Romans 2:4
"Father in heaven, You know all things
Thank You for what to us You've shown
Thank You for helping us to persevere
Without knowing all that You've known

Thank You for Faith and the blessing she was
Thank You for Hope and the blessing she will be
Infinite thanks to You for Love and His blessing
Enabling us to ever be free"

-Psonic Alms 22:1-4		 Isaiah 55:1-11 2 Peter 1:1-8
Thursday,
April 26, 2012
"...we will never know the awesome power of the grace of God
Until we let ourselves get swept away into this holy flood
So if you'll take my hand we'll...take the leap of faith, come on let's go

I'm diving in, I'm going deep, in over my head I want to be
Caught in the rush, lost in the flow, in over my head I want to go
The river's deep, the river's wide, the river's water is alive
So sink or swim I'm diving in"

-Steven Curtis Chapman
 Isaiah 58:11 John 4:14
John 7:38
"The True Love deals in forever things. He blesses us with temporal things to help us see.
Once we see, we are response-able to deal with forever things. Can you see?"

-Evan Leemah Yeendehd		 1 Samuel 17:26 Jude 3
Friday,
April 27, 2012		 "When the True Love has you, the microphone is always on:
Think carefully, speak prayerfully, act accordingly."

-Che Kuhchekwantu		 1 Kings 3:3-28 Acts 28:16-24
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

-Winston Churchill		 Nehemiah 4:1-23 1 Timothy 6:12
"And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, 'Man, what are you doin' here?' "

-Billy Joel		 Genesis 39:2-3 Colossians 3:22-25
Saturday,
April 28, 2012		 "I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."

-Morpheus		 Psalm 34:8
Isaiah 49:22-23		 Revelation 3:7-13
Sunday,
April 29, 2012		 "...that's what I'm talkin' about. When I get up in the morning and I'm putting on my uniform, you know what I recognize? I see in that mirror every person that's got this uniform on [has] GOT my back. ...No, no, you don't have to be like me, but you are more than what you are, and you don't see it. ...No, I, no--can't be distracted right now..."

-Col. James Rhodes		 Ecclesiastes 4:12-13 1 Corinthians 12:14-27
"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor."

-Odin Allfather		 Psalm 2:7
Isaiah 42:1		 Matthew 3:13-17
Monday,
April 30, 2012		 "I shouldn't be alive, unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right."

-Tony Stark		 Deuteronomy 30:11-20 Romans 10:8-10
"Captain America! How exciting! I'm a great fan of your films!"

-Johann Schmidt		 Proverbs 26:28 1 Peter 5:8

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