Posts from 4/25-28/13

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
- C.S. Lewis

 How to succeed? Try hard enough.
- Malcolm Forbes

 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"—when you have it with you.
- Proverbs 3:27, 28

 There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

 Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- Samuel Johnson

 Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
- Denis Waitley

 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
- Romans 10:9-10

 Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people.
- C. S. Lewis

 I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
- William DeMille

 Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
- Muhammad Ali

 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58

 Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
- Victoria Holt

 Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Jesus Christ was either a liar, a lunatic, or He was who He said He was.
- C.S.Lewis

 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

 In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
- Friedrich Schlegel

 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
- Psalms 60:12

Posts from 4/24/13

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
- Zig Ziglar

 There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers & were glad when you had found them. Become that child again: even now.
- C.S. Lewis

 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?
- 1 Corinthians 15:55

 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon

 Say Yes to Life. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- Henry James

 The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen

 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18

Posts from 4/22-23/13

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
- John 15:4

 You are up and you are happy. You are down and you are sad. All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. This is what life is all about. Once balanced, no more ups and downs, but bliss and joy and silence and gratitude.
- Tishan

 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

 Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
- Psalms 56:4

 It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill.... Let [it] go...and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time.
- C.S. Lewis

 To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Kahlil Gibran

 The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkopf

 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:8

 Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

Posts from 4/18-21/13

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
- Saraha

 Do not be afraid to give up the good for the great.
- Kenny Rogers

 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
- Psalms 139:23, 24

 There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
- C.S. Lewis

 Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
- Mario Fernandez

 Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
- Denis Waitley

 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
- Luke 9:23-24

 Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
- James Allen

 Our power is in our ability to decide.
- Buckminster Fuller

 What you do today can change the course of your life far into the future. Today is critical. Today really counts.
- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:7

 Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
- Denis Waitley

 The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
- C.S. Lewis

 Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
- Horace

 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
- Romans 3:23-24

 When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
- Willie Nelson

 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:25-26

 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 19:3

Posts from 4/17/13

Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that someone will ask me, What's the secret of it? I shall say simply this: I get up when I fall down.
- Paul Harve

 Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

 We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

 Never confuse movement with action.
- Ernest Hemingway

 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
- 1 Peter 2:24

 Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
- Alice MacDougall

Posts from 4/16/13

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
- Roger Von Oech

 Big journeys begin with small steps.
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 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
- Psalms 130:3, 4

 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

 Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.
- Author Unknown

 At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” The lost will say, “We were always in Hell.”
- C.S.Lewis

 What you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals - what you will become is the winner you were born to be!
- Zig Ziglar

 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:6-8

Posts from 4/15/13

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So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
- John 12:35

 Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
- Bill Gates

 I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.
- Robert J. Ringer

 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
- Romans 5:10

 Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett

 Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them.
- Peter Reese

Posts From 4/11-14/13

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Hebrews 12:2

 Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
- Psalms 119:105

 Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford

 The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand

 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
- Ephesians 1:7

 Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to make more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young

 Kites rise against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill

 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14-15

 Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.
- Author Unknown

 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
- Philippians 4:6

 For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
- Jimmy Dean

 Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.
- Douchan Gersi

 It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
- Vaclav Havel

 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Galatians 2:20

 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
- Psalms 119:165

 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
- Psalms 47:7

Posts from 4/10/13

Love is everywhere, it has no distance. All you have to do is stop the resistance.
- Matt Zotti

 Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Rob Gilbert

 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
- Psalms 108:13

 A strong successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions.
- Orisen Swett Marden

 I AM
Two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality.

 Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

Posts from 4/8-9/13

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
- Psalms 42:1

 The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes
- Eckhart Tolle

 Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
- Marilyn Ferguson

 Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21

 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
- Isaiah 53:3-4

 Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
- Henry Ford

 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
- Psalms 139:7, 8

 When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way... if it comes from the heart.
- Debbie Fields

 Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch

 Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!
- Matthew 20:17-19

Posts from 4/4-7/13

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

 The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place".
- Orison Swett Marden

 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
- Acts 1:3

 Peak performance in life isn't about succeeding all the time or even being happy all the time. It's often about compensating, adjusting, and doing the best you can with what you have right now.
- Ken Ravizza

 Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
- Wayne Dyer

 Don't put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you're ever living is in this moment.
- Author Unknown

 My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
- Psalm 62:7

 What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand.
- Spock (Star Trek)

 Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
- Brian Tracy

 The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
- Thomas J Watson

 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
- Psalms 115:1

 It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
- Wilma Rudolph

 There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen

 The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee

 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.
- 1 Timothy 2:5-6

 Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
- Harry Fosdick

 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
- 1 John 4:18

 Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
- Frederick Buechner

 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
- Philippians 4:4

A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what a ship was built for.
-William H Shedd

Posts From 4/3/13

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- 1 John 1:9

 To create more positive results in your life, replace "if only" with "next time".
- Author Unknown

 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
- Matthew 6:33

 Now is the time. Needs are great. But your possibilities are greater.
- Bill Blackman

 Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act.
- Maxwell Maltz

 The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.
- Andrew Carnegie

 Instead of thinking outside the box, just get rid of it.
- Deepak Chopra

 For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,
- Philippians 1:29

Posts From 4/2/13

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
- James 1:12

 We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
- Walter Savage Landor

 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
- Psalms 108:13

 The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
- Laurence Sterne

 You can't get to a place that you don't believe exists.
- Vaibhav Shah

 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:23

 The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- Peter F Drucker

 You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
- Deepak Chopra

Posts From 4/1/13

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.
- Abraham Lincoln

 Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
- Henry J Kaiser

 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
- James 1:19, 20

 Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit
- W. Clement Stone

 I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
- Rosa Parks

 Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
- Francis Gray

 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- Ephesians 6:10-11

 Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
- Zig Ziglar

Posts from 3/30-31/13

Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren't always the people who win, they are the people who don't give up when they lose.

 Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.
- Arthur Pine

 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, "He has risen from the dead," and the last fraud will be worse than the first." Pilate said to them, "You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can." So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
- Matthew 27:64-66

 One half of life is luck, the other half is discipline and that's the important half. For without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with the luck.
- Carl Zuckmeyter

 Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
- Audrey Hepburn

 Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
- Jeremiah 17:7-8

 Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
- Norman Schwarzkopf

 The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

 Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Happy Easter!! - Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you."
- Matthew 28:1-7