Posts from 1/28-29/14

You can't change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future.
- The Daily Guru

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.
- C.S. Lewis

 So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
- Matthew 7:12

 Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
- John 8:12

 The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts you perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.
- Dr. Robert Holden

 I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
- Goldie Hawn

 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
- James 1:2, 3

 The most important question to ask on the job is not "what am I getting?" The most important question to ask is "what am I becoming?"
- Jim Rohn

 The customer is never wrong.
- Cesar Ritz

 Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

 I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
- John 10:14-15

 Whatever you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
- Bernard Baruch

Posts from 1/5-8/14

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
- Romans 1:16

 One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn

 Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
- Maya Angelou

 Give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
- Author Unknown

 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 most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work...if you won't.
- Zig Ziglar

 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it's only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings

 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
- Colossians 3:15

 Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 God gives every bird it's worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.
- Proverb

 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- John 3:3

 He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
- Miguel De Cervantes

 The purpose of life, after all, is to love it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- Colossians 2:6-7

 Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

 Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
- Dell Crossword

 If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond

 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- James 4:7

 Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
- William J. Bennett – (The Book of Virtues)

 If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.
- Padmasambhava

 A goal without a plan is just a wish.
- Author Unknown

 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- Colossians 3:17

 It's easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.
- Zig Ziglar

Posts from 1/1-4/14

So since I have been slacking on these, I am gonna start off fresh for the new year...

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

 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 1:14

 We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
- Charles C. West

 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier

 Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Euripides

 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
- Psalm 95:1-2

As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
- 2 Corinthians 4:18

 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
- Psalm 80:19