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.

Thanks you for your encouraging comments and votes on last week’s poll about whether The Week In Words should continue. With the exception of one lone negative vote in the poll, it looks like there is enough interest to keep it going.

I hope I didn’t sound like I was feeling sorry for myself or looking for affirmation (though in all honesty I can’t confess to being always entirely free from that….ahem… 😳 ),  but I was thinking that if there were only two or three of us interested in these posts and everyone else was skipping over them, then maybe the time and space might be better used. But I was glad to see that others read them, too. And as someone said, I would probably be posting quotes at some interval anyway, and I enjoy reading quotes you come up with, too — often they are quite convicting, thought-provoking, or entertaining.

I’ve mentioned this before, but if you don’t have a particular post for TWIW but you have a post from the previous week that contained a quote or quotes, please feel free to link that up. There have been times I’ve thought about commenting on someone’s post that “This would be a good entry for TWIW” — but I don’t want to see pushy or self-promotional. So if I ever do say that, please don’t take it that way but rather just see it as a “maybe you hadn’t thought about this, but…” kind of suggestion.

I know some of you like to save quotes from books you’re reading to share when you review or discuss the book. I do that too, except sometimes when I have way too many quotes marked to share in one review. Just occasionally I’ll repeat one here and again in the review if it is particularly striking.

Just as an FYI, my goal is to have TWIW post published Sunday night before I go to bed so it’s here first thing for those who are up early in the morning. But sometimes on Sundays I don’t have much time with the computer so I’m not able to get it up until some time Monday morning.

Okay, now that I’ve used so many of my own words….I am going to post just one quote for you this week. I saw this on Diane‘s Facebook status and loved it:

“When the devil throws our sins up to us and declares we deserve death and hell, we ought to speak thus: ‘I admit that I deserve death and hell. What of it? Does this mean that I shall be sentenced to eternal damnation? By no means. For I know One who suffered and made a satisfaction in my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Where he is, there I shall be also.’”~Martin Luther

I know his “What of it?” is not meant to be flippant but rather an answer to the “Accuser of the brethren” that that accusation is already taken care of.

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.

I hope you’ll visit some of the other participants as well and glean some great thoughts to ponder. And don’t forget to leave a comment here, even if you don’t have any quotes to share! 🙂