The Status Quotes February 2013
Date	Quote	Old Testament Reference	New Testament Reference
Friday, February 1, 2013	"Here! These pipes go down at least thirty feet, if we anchor to them we might have a chance!" -Bill Harding	Psalm 55:8	Hebrews 6:19-20
Friday, February 1, 2013	"It's Laura's fault, she broke the plate. I tried to stop her. She said she had to demonstrate her a-apple chopper. The apple chopper worked just great But chopped right through your bowling plate. It's Laura's fault, she broke the plate, it's true. And that's the tale I have to tell to you!" -Junior Asparagus	Jeremiah 19:10-15	Acts 16:37
Friday, February 1, 2013	"Pop culture is a language all its own. We learn it to 'epagonizomai' for souls that otherwise may be lost forever." -Tranh Slater	Genesis 10:4-8	Acts 2:3-12
Saturday, February 2, 2013	"The waters of evangelism are dicey." -Bob Lively	Proverbs 11:30	Matthew 8:24
Saturday, February 2, 2013	"I think you have a gift for it. It was a splendid mixture of poetry and meanness. ... Don't misunderstand me, I'm just paying you a compliment." -Joe Fox	Psalm 119:97-98	John 3:16
Saturday, February 2, 2013	"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. ...Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? ... Look again." -Morpheus	Zechariah 3:8	Ephesians 2:1-7
Sunday, February 3, 2013	"Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!" -Jesus	Psalm 49:3RSV	Luke 12:24
Monday, February 4, 2013	"[Wisdom] will place on your head a garland of grace; She will present you with a crown of beauty." -Proverbs 4:9	Proverbs 4:9	2 Timothy 2:11-13
Monday, February 4, 2013	"The Lord will fight my battles for me And He has given the victory ... Victory is mine, victory is mine Victory today is mine I told old' Satan 'Get thee behind' Victory today is mine" -Sounds of Blackness	2 Chronicles 29:1--32:22	Hebrews 10:10-14
Tuesday, February 5, 2013	"It's hard to keep my head out of the clouds when I know that's where the True Love will be meeting us someday. On the other hand, He's also a lion tamer who traded His whip for a flamethrower, so I'll be jumping through any hoops He has for me, thank you very much." -Waddeh Veritelz Mitudu	Psalm 5:4-7	1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 Hebrews 13:8-9
Tuesday, February 5, 2013	"My grandfather [General Jack Seely] was riding out of a village past some burning stables, and he describes it very vividly, really. 'As we approached [the stables], another bouquet of shells fell and burst, the nearest only a few yards away. To my amazement, [my horse] Warrior made no attempt to run away. I could feel him tremble a little between my legs as we trotted through the gate, but he pretended to be quite unperturbed. He was trying to be brave, and succeeding in his task.' And ever after that became the great hallmark, that [Warrior] was the horse that would stand still, who would NOT panic, 'cause that would give courage to all [the other horses] around him." -Brough Scott	Psalm 18:29-30	John 14:12
Wednesday, February 6, 2013	"Children, not anything for eating have you?" -Jesus John 21:4-11 Luke 1:53 (... !) Psalm 107:9	Psalm 107:9	Luke 1:53 John 21:4-11
Thursday, February 7, 2013	"Take my hand, take a breath Pull me close and take one step Keep your eyes locked on mine And let the music be your guide" -Vanessa Hudgens	Exodus 31:1-5	Revelation 1:10-11
Thursday, February 7, 2013	"The True Love did lift a finger to help. And far more than this." -Hart N. Greift	Exodus 31:18	John 8:6-8
Friday, February 8, 2013	"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?" -Morpheus Joel 2:26-32 "[ 'Mr. Charles' ] is a gambit designed to turn [a dreamer like] Fischer against his own subconscious. ...it involves telling the mark that he's dreaming, which involves attracting a lot of attention to us. ... Cobb's drawing Fischer's attention to the strangeness of the dream..." -Arthur Acts 2:14-28	Joel 2:26-32	Acts 2:14-28
Friday, February 8, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013	"Life takes on a new sense of urgency when each person is seen as they truly are: a soul that will spend forever somewhere. Only the hellbound wonder where that is." -Ledji Zusslah Vyu	Exodus 3:14	John 8:58 Philippians 3:14
Saturday, February 9, 2013	"Will the car go this time or not? ...Constant suspense." -Jess Kahlmi Murphy	Psalm 20:7	Philippians 4:13
Sunday, February 10, 2013	"[Don't] make decisions based on money. Make decisions based on the will of God." -Dr. Charles Stanley Isaiah 11:1-3 "What you sacrifice in life determines what you become in life." -Dr. J. Kie Bowman Romans 12:1-2	Isaiah 11:1-3	Romans 12:1-2
Sunday, February 10, 2013	"For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ." -Paul the Apostle	Nehemiah 9:20	Colossians 2:5
Monday, February 11, 2013	" 'Thus shall it come to pass: The dying leader shall know the truth of the opera house.' " -Captain Kara Thrace 1 Samuel 10:24 Lamentations 3:14 Ezekiel 19:5 John 4:29 "This is my story, this is my song Praising my Savior all the day long." -Fanny Crosby Isaiah 40:8 John 1:1, 14 John 4:29 Revelation 19:13 "His banner over me... ...is love."	1 Samuel 10:24 Isaiah 40:8 Lamentations 3:14 Ezekiel 19:5	John 1:1 1:14 John 4:29 Revelation 19:13
Tuesday, February 12, 2013	"Well, I AM trying to solve a puzzle. And I just found a big piece." -Dr. Richard Kimble 2 Kings 5:18-19 The Song of Songs 4:3 (LK4.22, JS2.18, RV1.16, MT27.30, HB10.20) The Song of Songs 7:13 Luke 15:2 John 20:30-31	Joshua 2:18 2 Kings 5:18-19 The Song of Songs 4:3 7:13	Matthew 27:30 Luke 4:22 15:2 John 20:30-31 Hebrews 10:20 Revelation 1:16
Tuesday, February 12, 2013	"So this funny checker was ringing up my groceries the other day. He picked up my cedar plank I was going to use for my grilling, knocked on it like he was knocking on the door, and says, 'A little board, today, eh?' : )" -Ramon Isaqui	Proverbs 31:26	Revelation 3:20
Wednesday, February 13, 2013	"I was made for rest, in a world that's striving. To lie down in the fields of green. To set my feet upon this holy ground. To build my life on the things unseen." -Christy Nockels	Psalm 23:2	Matthew 11:29
Wednesday, February 13, 2013	"KUP: The Insecticons are in our way! HOT ROD: Wrong! They're our way in!" -Ron Friedman	Isaiah 29:13-14	1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Wednesday, February 13, 2013	"A great chess game is like a great film and a life well-lived: it has a beginning (or opening), a middle and an end. The opening foreshadows and affects the middle and they both foreshadow and affect the end. The great difference in chess is this: the starting position is ALWAYS the same." -N. Passant Proverbs 22:1-5 "The tongue is the epitome of Divine design; with it we may praise and curse, we may taste and be tasteless, break bones and mend fences, wage war and make peace, make love and break hearts, speak truth and lie, choose life and court death. A paradox: we may stick out our tongue in cheek." -Lynn Gwyst James 3:8-10	Proverbs 22:1-5	James 3:8-10
Thursday, February 14, 2013	"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning Exodus 19:4 The Song of Songs 1:4 Ruth 4:7-12 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." -Jesus John 15:13 Romans 5:8 1 Corinthians 13:13	Exodus 19:4 The Song of Songs 1:4 Ruth 4:7-12	John 15:13 Romans 5:8 1 Corinthians 13:13
Friday, February 15, 2013	music <=> math <=> rhythm <=> pattern <=> time <=> training <=> ministry <=> maxistry <=> mastery
Friday, February 15, 2013	"...There will be no free rides, no excuses. You already have two srikes against you: your name and your complexion. Because of those two strikes, there are some people in this world who will assume that you know less than you do. MATH is the great equalizer... When you go for a job, the person giving you that job will not want to hear your problems; ergo, neither do I. You're going to work harder here than you've ever worked anywhere else. And the only thing I ask from you is GANAS. DESIRE. ...And maybe a haircut. [ ; ) ] ... If you don't have the GANAS, I will give it to you because I'm an expert." -Jaime Escalante	Psalm 119:75	Matthew 28:20 Hebrews 12:6
Friday, February 15, 2013	"I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd." -Jesus	Psalm 23:1	John 10:14-16
Saturday, February 16, 2013	"[The Oracle] is a guide, Neo. She can help you to find the path." -Morpheus Proverbs 3:13-18 "The True Love tells him he's a profit of His, fully to be invested. He strains to ride the stories dancing in his heart and longs to live in the still waters of the whirlpool he's been shown, though he knows not how." -Hugh Stony & Po Tanh Shelley John 21:7	Proverbs 3:13-18	John 21:7
Saturday, February 16, 2013	"Behold the son of our maker!" -Castor/Zuse	Isaiah 11:1-2	John 1:29 Revelation 4:2-5
Saturday, February 16, 2013	- The Magic of Cinematography - The writer in the story writing the story in the story brought to us through her office out to an open room, a waiting place at her table on her right, a waiting pedestal on her left. Thus we are drawn in.
Sunday, February 17, 2013	"Wait. Wait... I'm getting something... Hold on..." "No, no, i-it's not schizophrenia. It's just a voice in my head. I mean... the voice isn't telling me to do anything; it's telling me what I've already done... accurately and with a better vocabulary. ... I'm somehow involved in some sort of story, like I'm a character in my own life. But the problem is that the voice comes and goes, like there are other parts of the story not being told to me, and I need to find out what those other parts are before it's too late." -Harold Crick -Deuteronomy 34:1-12 "I brought you flours." -Harold Crick John 6:51	Deuteronomy 34:1-12	John 6:51
Sunday, February 17, 2013	"I had to keep this boy from being hit [by a bus]." -Harold Crick Proverbs 14:25-27 "It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward. And now--" -Aslan John 17:24 1 Corinthians 15:1-4	Proverbs 14:25-27	John 17:24 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Monday, February 18, 2013	"The Gospel casts a new kind of net. All the sudden a net is not something to be feared. It's a place to encounter the living Lord Jesus Christ." -Beth Moore	Psalm 25:15	Luke 5:9-11
Monday, February 18, 2013	"Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?" -Peter the Apostle	Ezra 3:13	1 Peter 3:13
Tuesday, February 19, 2013	"Lord I'm needing you now Tell me how to stop the rain" -Mariah Carey Exodus 9:33-34 "Don't look at me If you're looking for perfection Don't look at me I will only let you down I'll do my best to point you in the right direction But don't look at me No, no, no Don't look at me, look at Him" -Stacie Orrico 2 Corinthians 13:2-11	Exodus 9:33-34	2 Corinthians 13:2-11
Tuesday, February 19, 2013	"...you say what you mean and... you almost always mean something that's about being straight [with people] and good..." -Melvin Udall	Ruth 3:11	1 Timothy 3:11 2 John 1 Revelation 21:9
Wednesday, February 20, 2013	"You know... sometimes love isn't fireworks. Sometimes love just comes softly." -Sarah Graham 1 Kings 19:11-13 "[None of the teaching you've been giving my daughter Missie is] a waste of time. It adds to the person that you are... and I'm counting on the fact that knowing you is gonna add to the person that Missie will become." -Clark Davis 2 Timothy 1:5	1 Kings 19:11-13	2 Timothy 1:5
Wednesday, February 20, 2013	"Less meat makes all meat tastier; More vegetables makes any meat at all delicious." -Cullen R. E. Parson	Proverbs 27:7	Luke 15:11-32
Thursday, February 21, 2013	"It's tough to live in the shadow of another woman." -Beth Moore	Esther 1:16-21	Matthew 14:8-12
Thursday, February 21, 2013	"You know, 'Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.' " -Selina Kyle " '... but a kiss can be deadlier' ... '...if you mean it,' ..." -Bruce Wayne	Genesis 45:1-15	Luke 13:34
Friday, February 22, 2013	"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it, (y'know?) I just DO things. ... You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan'. Even if the plan is HORRIFYING. If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gangbanger will get shot... or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics. Because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone LOSES THEIR MINDS! Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, then everything becomes KAY-AH-Suh. I'm an agent of Chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about Chaos? It's FAIR." -The Joker Genesis 3:14-15 Job 1:12, 2:6 Jeremiah 29:11 Matthew 4:8-11 (DT6.13) "You didn't think I'd risk losing the battle for Gotham's soul in a fist fight with YOU? No, you need an ace in the hole. Mine's Harvey. ... I took Gotham's white knight... and I brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard--you see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little PUSH. Hahahaheeheehaha[etc.]..." -The Joker 1 Kings 13:18 John 8:42-47	Genesis 3:14-15 1 Kings 13:18 Job 1:12 2:6 Jeremiah 29:11	Matthew 4:8-11 (DT6.13) John 8:42-47
Saturday, February 23, 2013	"He says it's the chance of a lifetime. ..." "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." -Jesus Deuteronomy 32:3-4 Matthew 5:48 "...You don't happen to have eight thousand bucks on you, do you? ... [Well, money] comes in pretty handy down here, bub. I found it out a little late. ..." -George Bailey Psalm 50:10 Matthew 22:15-22	Deuteronomy 32:3-4 Psalm 50:10	Matthew 5:48 22:15-22
Saturday, February 23, 2013	"Father, give us discernment and the discipline to wait. There comes a time. There comes a time to wait. There comes a time to wait on someone else's time. And in the meantime, it. Is. God time. In Jesus' name, amen." -Beth Moore	Esther 5:7-8 Habakkuk 2:3	2 Peter 3:3-9
Sunday, February 24, 2013	"...you could be anxious about a relationship that you have that you know is not right. God's told you it's not right, you know it's not right, and you look at the Scripture, that very clearly in the Bible that what's going on in your life is inappropriate. You have a legitimate reason for being anxious. The truth is: if you're living in sin, you have a very. Very. Legitimate. Reason. For being anxious because that sin is going to catch up with you at some point or the other, and you're going to have to pay the consequences of it." -Dr. Charles Stanley Genesis 34:31<=>1 Corinthians 7:36 The Song of Songs 2:7<=>1 John 4:16-17	Genesis 34:31 The Song of Songs 2:7	1 Corinthians 7:36 1 John 4:16-17
Monday, February 25, 2013	"In my dream home, where our True Love awaits our arrival, there is no enemy; he is long gone. There are only friends there; we are--all of us together--His dream home. You will join us, won't you?" -Kurt N. Strand Exodus 26:1 "You know, I fell asleep this afternoon and had me a dream. I dreamed about Del's mouse. ...I dreamed he got down to that place Boss Howell talked about, that Mouseville place. I dreamed there was kids, and how they laughed at his tricks! My! I dreamed those two little blonde-headed girls were there. They 'us laughing, too. I put my arms around 'em and sat 'em on my knees, and there 'us no blood comin' outta their hair and they 'us fine. We all watch Mr. Jingles roll that spool, and how we did laugh. Fit to bust, we was." -John Coffey 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 Revelation 21:3-7	Exodus 26:1	1 Corinthians 2:9-10 Revelation 21:3-7
Tuesday, February 26, 2013	"This I will tell you and you can take to the spiritual bank: you were not called to be autonomous. Not in the Body of Christ. There is something that you can only complete that God has called you to do in conjunction with other people. At times it will make you mad. Because you'll wish you had all the gifts and all the talents to pull it off yourself. ...it will be along with some others that might surprise you in what they bring out in you. ...And the joy of the partnership is unspeakable." -Beth Moore	Esther 9:29--10:3	Ephesians 4:11-16
Wednesday, February 27, 2013	"It is far easier to be the messenger than it is to be the message. When we follow Jesus, we are inviting a hateful and hurting, lost and dying world to watch us live, and to come with us and live--forever." -Sahmtin Turaitoma Ba'ut	Esther 4:9-10 4:12-13 4:15	Luke 7:18-23 2 Corinthians 3:2-3
Thursday, February 28, 2013	-Paul the Apostle	Isaiah 1:18	Romans 1:16

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