Posts from 6/25-28/14

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
- John 14:6

 We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with pure, unconditioned awareness.
- Eknath Easwaran

 Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
- Lady Bird Johnson

 If you can't do great big things, do great little things.
- Author Unknown

 Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
- Jimmy Johnson

 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

 Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
- Steven Pressfield

 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.
- Psalm 18:2

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

 Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
- Dale Dauten

 God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
- C.S. Lewis 

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Jim Rohn

 May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
- William Ellery Channing

 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- Psalm 121:1, 2

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

 Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 A thousand disappointments in the past cannot equal the power of one positive action right now.
- Author Unknown

 Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
- Zig Ziglar

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

 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
- 1 Peter 2:24

Posts from 6/21-24/14

Winning is a habit.
- Vincent T Lombardi

 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
- Romans 5:10

 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
- Psalm 103:13

 You are in charge of how you feel.
- Author Unknown

 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:6-8

 It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
- Helen Walton

 You always pass failure on the way to success.
- Mickey Rooney

 Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.
- Sathya Sai Baba

 Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.
- Author Unknown

 For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
- Wallis Simpson

 Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude fair results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.
- M. Russell Ballard

 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
- John 16:33

 You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke

 I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
- H. Jackson Browne

 Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

 Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
- Wayne Dyer

 You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
- Anna Quindlen

Posts from 6/9-10/14

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

 The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Chinese proverb

 A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
- Barbara de Angelis

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

 Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I’ll try again tomorrow.
- Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

 The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James

 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21

 To understand is to forgive, even one self.
- Alexander Chase
 
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
- Brian Tracy

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

 Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
- Jim Rohn

 You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.
- Charles Noble

Posts from 6/5-8/14

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.
- Jeremiah 17:7, 8

 We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
- Tom Blandi

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

 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

 Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
- Robertson Davies

 If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
- Thomas Dewar

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

 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

 No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
- Psalm 62:5-7

 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11

Posts from 6/1-4/14

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- 1 John 4:10

 The optimist see opportunity in every danger, the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill

 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
- Psalm 103:8

 I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.
- Ann B Davis

Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
- Buddha

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15:13

Winning doesn’t always mean being first.
- Bonnie Blair

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

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

 Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

 Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.
- Merle Miller

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
- Galatians 5:22-23

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

 But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.
- Luke 18:27

 Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.
- Deepak Chopra

 To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Author Unknown

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

 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
- 1 Peter 2

 Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley