Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.
Also, if you’ve posted a quote on your blog this past week, feel free to link it here as well. You don’t have to save it for Mondays. 
And please do read and comment even if you’re not posting quotes.
Here are some that caught my eye this week:
A quote at the end of a Good Clean Funnies e-mail:
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” ~ Robert Frost.
Good advice! In many ways! Some fences, both physical and immaterial, are there for very good reasons.
From Diane‘s Facebook status:
“Believe God’s love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.” – Samuel Rutherford
I love the imagery and the truth in that.
I have a few others in my file, but I think I will just keep it short this week.
If you’ve read anything that particularly spoke to you that you’d like to share, please either list it in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below. I do ask that only family-friendly quotes be included.
Stray Thoughts 
I’ve heard the fence quote before and I understand it better and better the older I get. ha. We’ve decided to get an invisible fence soon for our dog; it will make us better neighbors and better dog-owners.
I wrote down a quote last week from our Friday’s Fave Five tour that I wanted to think more about, so I posted something this morning on it.
Thanks, Barbara, for sharing your space for The Week in Words.
That second one is such a good reminder. A woman who was the women’s ministry director at our church for many years used to tell me (during my emotionally tumultuous teenage years!): “My circumstances are not my life, Christ Jesus is my life.” Though storms buffet, I need not be thrown about–for I am in Christ (I Cor 1:30), and He is a solid rock.
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I believe it was Frost who said:
Good fences make good neighbors.
ACK! I came to visit this MORNING… remembered I had a quote I wanted to share… went upstairs to get the book the quote is in… remembered I needed to give Mom a shower… then took a shower myself… then went to the hospital to sign up for a 5K being held in October… then went to lunch and the grocery store… then came home and put groceries away and sat down to come visit with friends… and now here I am – withOUT the book I went upstairs to retrieve… and so I’ll be BACK in a minute! *promise!* 🙂
See… I’m back!
The book I’m reading is by John Ortberg, and it is The Me I Want To Be… Becoming God’s Best Version of You… and there are actually 2 or 3 quotes I will share…
1.) The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life, it is simply your life.
2.) Here is the good news: When you flourish, you become more you. You become more that person God had in mind when He thought you up. You don’t just become holier. You become you-ier.
LOL! I LOVE that! And then he goes on to say – and I thought this was sO SIMPLE and yet SO important…
3.) God wants to redeem you, not exchange you.
(for a minute I felt like a coupon… 🙂 but then I got over it!)
Melli,
I SO relate to your order of the day. ha. I do things like that all the time; start at one point and end up somewhere totally different. I guess as long as we get back to where we started, we’re okay.
Love your quotes. I’m so glad we’re redeemed and not exchanged.
Your quote about the fence really makes me stop and ponder!!
Sorry, no post for your meme this week, Barbara, but I’ll share a favorite quote here:
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echos are truly endless.”~Mother Teresa
Have a blessed day!
e-Mom ღ
I’m in — better late than never!
I especially love the Robert Frost quote! It doesn’t ring any bells, but it sounds like what he says in “Mending Wall.”