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

Posts from 6/27-30/13

One chance is all you need.
- Jesse Owens

 A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:23

 Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D. Rockefeller

Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
- Psalm 90:2,4

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
- Jerry Rice

 The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
- Alan Cohen

 You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
- Napoleon Hill

 The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
- Habakkuk 3:19

 We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- Maya Angelou

 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Psalms 73:23-26

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

 Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
- Markus Zusak

 
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
- Matthew 7:13-14

 You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
- Ken Kesey

 If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.
- Sheng Yen

 If I have a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the explanation is - I was made for another world
- C.S. Lewis

 You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
- Gordie Howe

 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
- Matthew 6:26

 Reflect upon your present blessings.
- Charles Dickens

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
- Colossians 3:13

 It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Hyman G. Rickove

 Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein

 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
- Psalm 46:10

 You must have long-range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-term failures.
- Bob Bales

 You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
- Harry Firestone

 Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
- Proverbs 3:25, 26

 Don't let someone dim your light, simply because it's shining in their eyes.
- Unknown

 All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie

 We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
- Woodrow Wilson

 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
- Psalm 19:1-2

 You have the power to change.
- Les Brown

 To all you who believe in reincarnation, the phrase, “you only live once” is meaningless. So I say to you, go about your life as if you are going to live forever.
- The Daily Guru