The Status Quotes
May 2012
Date Quote Old Testament Reference New Testament Reference
Tuesday,
May 1, 2012		 "Tony? You're too young to understand this right now, so I thought I would put it on film for you. I built this for you. ...It represents my life's work. This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world. What is and always will be my greatest creation is YOU."

-Howard Stark		 Exodus 25:40 Hebrews 11:39-40
"...And Tony, remember, I got my EYE on you."

-SHIELD Director Nick Fury		 Psalm 33:18-19 Revelation 2:18-29
"You're not really thinking about picking Rogers, are you?
...When you brought a 90-pound asthmatic onto my army base, I let it slide, I thought...maybe he'd be useful to you, like a gerbil. I never thought you'd pick him!
...Look at that. He's making me cry!
...You don't win wars with niceness, doctor. You win wars with guts. GRENADE!
...He's still skinny."

-Colonel Chester Phillips		 2 Samuel 11:11 John 15:13
Wednesday,
May 2, 2012		 "[Don't make me...hungry. You wouldn't like me when I'm...hungry?]
No, no, that's not right..."

-Dr. Bruce Banner		 Deuteronomy 3:24-28 Mark 11:12-17
"Peggy...I'm going to need a rain check on that dance.
...You know, I still don't know how to dance.
...We'll have the band play something slow.
...I'd hate to step on your--"

-Captain Steve Rogers		 The Song of Songs 5:6 Acts 1:9-12
"Mr. Stark, thank you for such an exceptionally distinguished performance. You deserve this. (pricks STARK with medal) Oh, sorry. Funny how annoying a little prick can be, isn't it?"

-Senator Stern		 Numbers 33:55-56 Acts 26:14-15
Thursday,
May 3, 2012		 "No. There is always hope. ...Yes. ...She searches for you."

-Heimdall		 Proverbs 1:20-21 Matthew 28:5-7
"Know this, son of Coul. You and I, we fight for the same cause: the protection of this world. From this day forward, you can count me in as your ally, if you return the items you have taken from Jane."

-Thor Odinson		 Nehemiah 5:1-13 Luke 19:1-10
2 Peter 3:14-18
"The truth is... I am Iron Man."

-Tony Stark		 Proverbs 27:17 John 8:31-32
" 'I am Iron Man.' You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet. ...I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative."

-SHIELD Director Nick Fury		 2 Kings 6:16 1 Corinthians
13:12
"Trouble sleeping? ...I am [here with a mission]. ...Trying to save [the world]. ...Gentlemen? You're up."

-SHIELD Director Nick Fury		 Ezekiel 3:17 John 3:17
Friday,
May 4, 2012		 "There's only one God, ma'am, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that."

-Captain America		 Deuteronomy 6:4 John 8:58
"Just as 'u' and 'i' can be found together in 'Guide',
So also you and I can be found together in Guide."

-The A-Men		 Exodus 32:25-26 Ephesians 2:4-7
Saturday,
May 5, 2012		 "Son, it's pure and realized
Liberation idealized
Now you're ad liberty to discuss
Now add lib what was memorized
Now hold us help us free us Jesus"

-Rich & Emma Terry Elways		 1 Kings 18:44 Acts 17:24-28
Jarvis, could you kindly Vac-U-Form a digital wire frame? I need a manipulatable projection. ...What does that look like to you, Jarvis? Not unlike an atom. In which case the nucleus would be here. ...I'm discovering--correction, rediscovering--a new element, I believe. ...Structure the protons and neutrons using the pavilions as a framework. ...Dad..."

-Tony Stark
 Zephaniah 1:7 Mark
1 2 : 3 4
"You are all so petty...and TINY!"

-Thor Odinson		 Exodus 19:16 John 18:6
"Puny god."

-The Hulk		 1 Kings 18:27 1 John 4:1
"It's really not complicated. I've got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out."

-Natasha Romanoff		 Isaiah 1:18 Hebrews
9:11-14
Sunday,
May 6, 2012		 "Estimated worldwide opening weekend box office gross for Marvel's The Avengers: $641.8 million. If average ticket for all shows was $12 and average number of tickets purchased per person was 1.07, then approximately 49,984,420 people PAID to entertain a 2-and-a-half hour presentation all about superheroes. Now THAT is a big audience. (If average number of tickets purchased per person was 2.17, then 24,646,700 people; if 3.16, then 16,925,110; if 4.12, then 12,298,139. Big audiences all. : / )

Can you see?"

-I. O. Penner		 Joel 1:1-11 Matthew 9:36-38
"That's my secret, Cap: I'm ALWAYS angry."

-Dr. Bruce Banner		 Psalm 79:5 Ephesians 4:26-27
Monday,
May 7, 2012		 "We're not your enemies, Banner! Try to think!"

-Thor Odinson		 Genesis 45:1-5 Galatians 2:9-21
"Yes, for the moment, I'm not dying. Thank you. ...I was going to tell you. I didn't want to alarm you. ...You didn't let me. ...I was gonna make you an omelet and tell you! ...Pepper? I am fine. Don't be mad. ...We could have been in Venice..."

-Tony Stark		 Job 32:8-22
"I don't want to talk about this again."

-Frank Farmer		 1 Thessalonians
5:19-22
"So, is there any hope of earthly recovery, or are we doomed to be defeated by the excess baggage and emptiness that wrong relationships left behind? The believer in Christ ALWAYS has hope, but God means for hope to become vivid reality through complete restoration. We are called to some radical responses with guaranteed results: we must repent wholeheartedly, receive the Lord's loving discipline, and cooperate fully with His plan for recovery."

-Beth Moore		 Psalm
51:10-13		 Acts
9:21-22
"You're assuming that Nero knows how events are predicted to unfold. The contrary, Nero's very presence has altered the flow of history, beginning with the attack on the USS Kelvin, culminating in the events of today, thereby creating an entire new chain of incidents that cannot be anticipated by either party. ...Precisely."

-Captain Spock		 Job 2:4-5 Revelation 20:7-10
Tuesday,
May 8, 2012		 "Here we remain as a beacon of hope, shining out across the stars. ...But the day will come when one of you will have to defend that peace. ...A wise king never seeks out war. But he must always be ready for it."

-Odin Allfather		 Psalm 34:8-18 1 Peter 3:8-16
"All of us who have been called to communicate to the Body of Christ must be radically cautious to remember that God doesn't just want to talk THROUGH us. He wants to talk TO us. Intimately. Sometimes in ways that are none of anyone else's business. When we cease letting God speak to us, it is only a matter of time before He will cease speaking through us."

-Beth Moore		 Proverbs 30:5-9 2 Timothy 3:16-17
"Mourned the moments that slipped through my fist
Trying not to be so...so really mad
Dad's open hand consoling like the sand
His Sonny Breeze a balm to my soul
Praying tears over what was stolen
His praying tears through my sole soul and
Our praying tears through the shadow land
For I am gone and He is I AM in me."

-Awlai Noweswadi Shozmi		 Jeremiah 8:18-22 Matthew 27:45-51
Wednesday,
May 9, 2012		 "I'm so sorry. I swear I'm not doing this on purpose."

-Jane Foster		 Leviticus 4:22-23 Luke 23:34
"There are, literally, no 'accidents' in the Bible."

-C. Fayasef		 1 Samuel 20:26 Romans 8:28
"With great power comes great responsibility."

-Ben Parker		 Exodus 33:11 John 15:15
Thursday,
May 10, 2012		 "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, [even] the least [of them], you did it to Me."

-King Jesus		 1 Kings 17:8-16 Matthew 25:34-40
"I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene--walk!"

-Peter the Apostle		 Proverbs 10:20 Acts 3:6
"I only ask to say what I have come to say. After that, do what you want and I won't try and stop you. ...The program called Smith has grown beyond your control. Soon he will spread through this city as he spread through the Matrix. You cannot stop him. But I can."

-Neo		 Genesis 6:11-12
Isaiah 53:5		 Romans 8:22
2 Corinthians
5:21
"Where would we all be if Ananias had said, 'No'?"

-O. I. Wunder		 1 Kings 13:19 Acts 9:10-18
"Far from it."

-Morpheus		 Exodus 15:1 John 2:21
"Put on the suit."

-Captain America		 Hosea 11:1 Matthew 2:15
Friday,
May 11, 2012		 "Have you experienced a season in your life when you knew what would rescue you but you ran from it? Like me, you may rank these memories among your greatest regrets. Virtually everyone has run from the real answers at one time or another."

-Beth Moore		 Isaiah 30:15-16
"There are countless millions just like Grace
Who need a merciful embrace
They won't believe our God is real
Until they feel His touch."

-Terry Jones		 Romans
10:13-15
"I went under, the world was at war, I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost."

-Captain Steve Rogers		 Leviticus
16:29-34		 Romans 14:5
Hebrews
4:1-16
Saturday,
May 12, 2012		 "Behold, God does all these oftentimes with men,
To bring back his soul from the pit,
That he may be enlightened with the light of life."

-GodOfHim, Son of GodHasBlessed		 Job 33:14-33 Ephesians 1:9-12
"Son, behold your mother!"

-Jesus the Son		 Ruth 1:1-18 John
19:26-27
Sunday,
May 13, 2012		 She looked curiously at what would be her final birthday gift, the metal-etched art--the empty cross with the red-violet stole wrapped behind its vertical and before its horizontals--and asked in her weakened voice, "Where's Jesus?"

We answered, "He's not on the cross anymore, Mom. He's alive. Forever."
Monday,
May 14, 2012		 "This isn't about personality profiles anymore."

-SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson		 Exodus 3:10 John 21:22
"We reach for the fruit of forbidden trees because we're getting a little bored with a steady diet of nothing but apples and bananas. Some of us haven't widened our spiritual horizons in decades. We are doing exactly the same things to fuel our Christian faith that we did years ago, and we're in a rut. A spiritual rut is fertile ground for seduction. It's time to wake up and smell the guava!"

-Beth Moore		 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 John 4:31-38
"You can't go BACK to the drawing board if you don't HAVE a drawing board! : )"

-Dee Zeiner		 Habakkuk
2:18-19		 1 Corinthians
2:14-16
"The True Love's precious story is a gift full of wonder, that can be wrapped in stories of all genres, so that it can be freely given as a wonderful mystery, even by the petrified, to anyone who enjoys any story at all. Beloved, start wrapping."

-Ward Smith		 Psalm 78:1-4 Matthew
13:51-53
Tuesday,
May 15, 2012		 "Then, suddenly, Harold remembered. He remembered where his bedroom window was, when there was a moon. It was always right around the moon. And then Harold made his bed. He got in and drew up the covers. The purple crayon dropped to the floor. And Harold dropped off to sleep."

-Crockett Johnson		 Genesis 2:1-3 Mark 4:37-41
"...one night I got up there, and that Presence didn't come, and it was almost like a spirit of panic, and I thought, 'I don't feel [God's Presence].' And it was as though He whispered, 'But I'm here. I'm right here. You trust Me, not feelings.' "

-James Robison		 Job 17:11 Mark 7:20-23
Wednesday,
May 16, 2012		 "Narnia is founded on a Deep Magic more powerful than either of us. It dictates that now, as in the beginning, it must be a Man who sits as High King. ...But there is a magic deeper still, older than Narnia itself, a magic that goes beyond rules, to truth. To what is right and what is wrong."

-Aslan		 Psalm 78:1-4 Matthew
13:51-53
"Check y'selves close that you don't catch a Splitter yeast infection, Splitter under-acting. ...I'm speaking to you as dear friends. Don't be bluffed into silence or insincerity by the threats of religious bullies. True, they can kill you, but THEN what can they do? There's nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life--body and soul--in His hands."

-Jesus the Anointed One		 1 Samuel 28:3-20 Luke 12:1-5
2 Timothy
3:6-7
"A furrowed brow and a firm rebuke
Given to family that is far afield IS kind,
Just as a pleasant smile and a positive thought
Given to acquaintance on the highway to hell is another kind."

-Hugh R. Luft		 Proverbs
16:14-15		 James
2:15-16
Thursday,
May 17, 2012
His Banner over me is love
"You may not enjoy that."

-Dr. Bruce Banner
 Proverbs
31:15, 25, 26		 Luke
12:47-48
1 Corinthians
12:31, 14:1
"Oh, yeah. 'Oooh, ahhh,' that's how it always starts. Then later there's running...and screaming."

-Dr. Ian Malcolm		 Numbers 16:30-35
"You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You're in one."

-Captain Barbossa		 Romans 12:21
"You-- you've got me?! Who's got you?!!"

-Lois Lane
 Psalm 68:18 Luke 24:50-53
Saturday,
May 19, 2012

"I shall return."

-General Douglas MacArthur		 Isaiah 53:10-12 Acts 1:9-11
Monday,
May 21, 2012		 ( : Beloved, start wrapping : )


- Parabling -
To tell the Precious Story through any story, spell out PATMOS (1 of 6): Protagonist
Find the character in your story that is on their journey.
In the Precious Story, the protagonist is your audience.
( : Beloved, start wrapping : )		 Psalm 78:2 Matthew 13:52
Tuesday,
May 22, 2012		 - Parabling -
To tell the Precious Story through any story, spell out PATMOS (2 of 6): Antagonist
Find the person or thing in your story that is the main opposition to the journey of the protagonist.
In the Precious Story, the antagonist is sin.
( : Beloved, start wrapping : )		 Psalm 78:2 Matthew 13:52
Wednesday,
May 23, 2012		 - Parabling -
To tell the Precious Story through any story, spell out PATMOS (3 of 6): Tribulation or Trouble
Find the thing in your story that is the problem posed to the protagonist.
In the Precious Story, the trouble is our sin will kill us. Forever.
( : Beloved, start wrapping : )		 Psalm 78:2 Matthew 13:52
Thursday,
May 24, 2012		 - Parabling -
To tell the Precious Story through any story, spell out PATMOS (4 of 6): Miracleworker
Find the person or thing in your story that brings help to solve the problem.
In the Precious Story, the Miracleworker is Jesus Christ.
( : Beloved, start wrapping : )		 Psalm 78:2 Matthew 13:52
Friday,
May 25, 2012		 - Parabling -
To tell the Precious Story through any story, spell out PATMOS (5 of 6): Operation
Find the thing in your story that the Miracleworker does to solve the problem.
In the Precious Story, the operation is Jesus died on a cross and rose from the dead.
( : Beloved, start wrapping : )		 Psalm 78:2 Matthew 13:52
Saturday,
May 26, 2012		 - Parabling -
To tell the Precious Story through any story, spell out PATMOS (6 of 6): Solution
Find the thing in your story that is the bottom line. How does it all end up?
In the Precious Story, the solution is Romans 10:9.
( : Beloved, start wrapping : )		 Psalm 78:2 Matthew 13:52

Romans 10:9


Thank you, USA military, for our freedom! You ROCK! We salute you.
Sunday,
May 27, 2012		 "Yes, that is all. That is all!
Bears! Who is your king?!"

-Iorek Byrnison		 Judges 15:16 Luke 12:4-12
"Duck."

-Anh Mai Neece
Joel 2:1-32 Acts 2:1-47
Sunday,
May 27, 2012
"God does not look on the outward appearance of things. He makes His decisions based upon what He sees in the heart (1 Sam. 16:7). He may set some people aside for no apparent reason, leaving the Body baffled. Others He uses more mightily than ever after something we think is utterly terminal, and the Body is horrified. Why? God knows things we don't know. He looks upon the heart. And, by the way, He doesn't take very kindly to people telling Him how to do His job."

-Beth Moore
 1 Samuel 16:7 Hebrews 4:12
Monday,
May 28, 2012
"If you continue to love Jesus, nothing much can go wrong with you, and I hope you may always do so. I'm so thankful that you realized the 'hidden story' in the Narnian books. It is odd, children nearly always do, grown ups hardly ever."

-C. S. Lewis
 Isaiah 11:6 Luke 18:16
"In all things let Yahweh be your Guide, and you will enjoy His rewards;
In everything follow Jesus or you will endure His consequences."

-N. Ty Moutt		 Song of Songs
2:7, 3:5, 8:4, 9		 John 21:17
Tuesday,
May 29, 2012		 "Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn.
My God, do you learn."

-C. S. Lewis		 Ecclesiastes
7:1-6		 2 Corinthians
11:16-12:10
"There must be several young women in your patient's neighbourhood who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them. Please send me a report on this when you next write. In the meantime, get it quite clear in your own mind that this state of falling in love is not, in itself, necessarily favourable either to us or to the other side. It is simply an occasion which we and the Enemy are both trying to exploit. Like most of the other things which humans are excited about, such as health and sickness, age and youth, or war and peace, it is, from the point of view of the spiritual life, mainly raw material,

Your affectionate uncle

SCREWTAPE"

-Screwtape
 Jeremiah
17:9-10		 Matthew 6:33
Wednesday,
May 30, 2012		 "Stand up; I too am [just] a man."

-The Apostle Peter		 Exodus
25:40-26:1

2 Samuel
11:14-15		 Acts 10:26

Philippians
3:17
"Dancing with the devil is like spending time with someone of whom your Dad didn't approve, for he WILL step on your toes and laugh at your pain, but you'll keep allowing it because he's just so pretty. Sometimes it's prudent to sit out a dance."

-Taye K. Bough		 Daniel
3:10-12		 1 John
2:17
Thursday,
May 31, 2012		 "Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you in that day."

-The Prophet Samuel		 1 Samuel
8:1-22		 Romans
12:21-13:14
CUSTOMER: How did stamps get so expensive?
CHECKER: We allowed it...
"Be sure to put on your left hand the gauntlet of steadfastness as you take up your shield of faith; and above ALL, put the gauntlet of love on your right hand as you take up the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God."

-Evan Lee Black-Smith
 Psalm
149:1-6		 Ephesians
6:16-17

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