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 9/29-30/13

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
- Thomas J Watson

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

 Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey

 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
- 1 John 2:9, 10

 Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

 If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to... there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
- Psalm 63:1

 

 It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

 I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God.
- Isaiah 43:11-12

 

 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
- Ephesians 5:15, 16

 

 Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
- Willie Nelson

 

 The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
- Napoleon Hill

 

 Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
- Maxwell Maltz

 

 Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
- Proverbs 19:20-21

 

 Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
- Christian D. Larson

Posts from 6/19-23/13

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard
- C.S. Lewis

 The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

 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

 Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- Walter Brunell

 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

 Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell

 The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
- Oprah

 What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Goethe

 Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

 As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
- Psalms 103:12

 When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
- Jared Sparks

 The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
- Andrew Schneider

 So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
- Hebrews 9:28

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Household gods give worthless advice, fortune-tellers predict only lies, and interpreters of dreams pronounce falsehoods that give no comfort. So my people are wandering like lost sheep; they are attacked because they have no shepherd.
- Zechariah 10:2

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Life is a promise, fulfill it...
- Mother Teresa

 Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great!
- Orison Swett Marden

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

 When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Author Unknown

 Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.
- Isaiah 28:23

Posts from 5/21-22/13

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney

 Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
- Confucius

 Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4

 At some point, the illusion breaks down and the opening for the start of the spiritual quest commences. The quest turns from without to within and the search for answers begins.
- David R. Hawkins

 If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Herman Hesse

 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Ephesians 4:32

 If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
- C.S. Lewis

 The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon

 The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise.
- Unknown

 The first step is you have to say that you can.
- Will Smith

 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
- 1 Peter 5:10

 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Proverbs 31:30

 We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin

 Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
- Psalm 139:13-14