Posts from 11/12-18/14

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it.
- Confucius

 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- James 3:13

 Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
- Ben Jonson

 In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

 If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

 Come now, let us reason together,' says the Lord. 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
- Isaiah 1:18

 Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.
- Walt Disney

 The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
- Robert Burton

 I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis 

 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children.
- Ephesians 5:1

 Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.
- Author Unknown

 Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Harper Lee

 Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
- Dalai Lama

 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
- James 1:12

 Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
- Job 37:5-6

 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
- 1 Peter 2:15-16

 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
- Philippians 2:3-4

 The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary, so that the necessary may speak.
- artist Hans Hofmann

 The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie

 He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
- Tyron Edwards

 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Psalm 111:10

 You can't test courage cautiously.
- Annie Dillard

 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
- 1 Peter 3:18