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Showing posts with label C. S. Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C. S. Lewis. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Posts from 9/25-28/15

Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.
- Unknown

 The more we criticize and judge, the less time we have to love and take care of.
- Author Unknown

 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
- Romans 11:33

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

 Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
- Ayn Rand

 Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson

 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
- Psalm 27:4

 We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
- C. S. Lewis

 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
- Psalm 139:23-24

 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
- 1 Corinthians 16:13-14

 One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.
- Napoleon Hill

 The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
- Denis Waitley

 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
- Hebrews 6:10

 Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown

 The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie

 If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman

 The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

4/20-21/15

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh

 There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Denis Waitley

Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
- Isaiah 1:16-17

The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones.
- Chinese Proverb

 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
- Abraham Maslow

 The miracle is this–the more we share, the more we have.
- Leonard Nimoy

 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
- Romans 12:9-10

 No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
- C. S. Lewis

 At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
- Steve Maraboli

 The only difference between a success and a failure is that the successful person is willing to do what the failure is not willing to do.
- J.R. Ridinger

 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
- 1 Peter 1:13

 Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- Henri Matisse

 They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.
- Mrs. Paul M. Ell

 Leaders recognize that great innovation comes from observing the same ideas as everyone else and seeing something different.
- Reed Markham

 The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
- Psalm 103:6

 Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.
- Sam Levenson

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Posts from 12/7-9/14

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:8


 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
- Isaiah 55:6


 I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
- Mark Zuckerberg


 For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
- John Burroughs


 What helps people, helps business.
- Leo Burnett


 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
- Matthew 5:9


 A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
- C. S. Lewis


 Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
- Thomas J. Watson


 In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen


 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
- Isaiah 26:4


 There was a stillness of silence within me, and I heard the bliss whereby I knew myself as I am.
- Allogenes


 The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.
- Robert Collier


 Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
- Jawaharial Nehru


 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21


 If you do what you do well enough, long enough, consistently enough and fast enough, you will win the race.
- Peter Padilla

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Posts from 10/29-31/14

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn


 For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
- Sir Walter Scott


 Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurious


 Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi


 If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
- William James


 There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- C. S. Lewis


 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
- Psalm 143:10


 The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Sir Walter Scott


 Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
- Eric Butterworth


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


 If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- William James


 Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
- Jawaharlal Nehru


 A year from now you may wish you had started today.
- Karen Lamb


 Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Sean O'Casey


 Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
- Proverbs 8:10-11


 Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
- Orison Swett Marden


 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Hebrews 4:12

Monday, November 25, 2013

Posts from 11/21-24/13

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
- Luke 6:27


 You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
- Michael Phelps


 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
- Romans 14:3


 In life you are either a passenger or a pilot, it's your choice.
- Author Unknown


 The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
- Plutarch


 You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis


 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
- 1 Peter 5:8-9


 We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future.
- Steve Maraboli


 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18


 The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
- Zephaniah 3:17

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Posts from 5/20/13

Love is everywhere, it has no distance. All you have to do is stop the resistance.
- Matt Zotti


 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
- Matthew 5:14


 Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey


 There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him & bad when it turns from Him.
- C. S. Lewis


 It is impossible to see the darkness, so long as you are focused on the light.
- The Daily Guru


 If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
- Matthew 18:15


 Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
- Jerry Gillies