Posts from 4/22-24/14

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13

 Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou

 Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi

 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- 1 John 3:11

 Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 How far you go in your life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Romans 8:35, 37

 Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle

 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost

 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
- John 12:25, 26

 Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
- William Feather

 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- Psalm 63:1

 The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
- Author Unknown

 Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:38-39

 The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Author Unknown

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 2/21/13

For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
- Hebrews 2:18

 Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

 If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Authur Ward

 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- 1 John 3:11

 Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa

 The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
- Thomas Merton