Posts from 6/26/13

Do you value life? Then waste not time, for that is the stuff of which life is made.
- Brian Tracy

 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalms 18:2

 Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

 The price of excellence is discipline.
The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
- William Arthur Ward

 So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
- Ephesians 3:17-19

 When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
- Dakota proverb

 It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
- Albert Einstein

 It is observed that successful people get ahead in the time that other people waste.
- Henry Ford

Posts from 6/24-25/13

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
- Romans 12:19

 I will say this about being an optimist: Even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.
- Frank Hughes

 When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
- Byron Katie

 None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Japanese Proverb

 Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11

 Failures are part of life.
If you don't fail, you don't learn.
If you don't learn, you'll never change.
- Unknown

 The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- Anthony Robbins

 Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein

 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.
- 1 John 3:18

 Luck is believing you're lucky.
- Tennessee Williams

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
- Katherine Paterson

 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

 Real wealth equals ideas plus energy.
- Buckminster Fuller

 You are free to believe what you choose and what you do attests to what you believe.
- A Course of Miracles

Posts from 6/19-23/13

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard
- C.S. Lewis

 The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- Jeremiah 29:11

 Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- Walter Brunell

 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

 Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell

 The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
- Oprah

 What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Goethe

 Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

 As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
- Psalms 103:12

 When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
- Jared Sparks

 The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
- Andrew Schneider

 So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
- Hebrews 9:28

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Household gods give worthless advice, fortune-tellers predict only lies, and interpreters of dreams pronounce falsehoods that give no comfort. So my people are wandering like lost sheep; they are attacked because they have no shepherd.
- Zechariah 10:2

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Life is a promise, fulfill it...
- Mother Teresa

 Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great!
- Orison Swett Marden

 gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Proverbs 15:1

 When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Author Unknown

 Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.
- Isaiah 28:23

Posts from 6/18/13

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Isaiah 61:10

 You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
- Neil Gaiman

 No one can tell whether they are richer or poor by turning to their ledger. It is the heart that makes a person rich. One is rich according to what one is, not according to what one has.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
- William Boetcker

 In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
- Psalm 56:4

 The grass is greener where you water it.
- Neil Barringham

Posts from 6/?-17/13

Sorry for the slacking on posts these, I will try to do better at this.  So here is the past few days.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God
- Micah 6:8

 Happy Fathers Day!!
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Ephesians 6:4

But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
- Psalm 103:17-18

 If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

 You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
- Neil Gaiman

 I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
- Maya Angelou

 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
- Hosea 14:9

 Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken.
- Shakti Gawain

 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
- Romans 12:16

 Everything is practice.
- Pele

 People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peal

 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
- Acts 20:24

 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
- Romans 1:20

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
- Nolan Bushnell

 Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you're appreciating, you are planning. What are you planning?
- Abraham

Posts from 6/6-7/13

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
- Hebrews 11:3

 Your are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: You get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.
- Karen Salmansohn

 The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

 The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
- A Course in Miracles

 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
- Galatians 5:13

 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
- Romans 6:3, 4

 Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

 The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

 The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain succes
- B.C. Forbes

 Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.
- Romans 15:2

Posts from 6/5/13

Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
- Proverbs 14:4

 We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Dr. Stephen Covey

 The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
- Peter Drucker

 I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
- 1 Corinthians 1:10

 You are your choices.
- Seneca

Posts from 6/3-4/13

But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
- Psalms 94:22

 You will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
- C.S. Lewis

 The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
- John E. Southard

 Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
- Horace Mann

 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
- Hebrews 6:10

 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
- Isaiah 40:30, 31

 Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
- Ayn Rand

 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

 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 15:5-6

 The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller