Posts from 5/4-7/15

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther

 I praise loudly; I blame softly.
- Queen Catherine I

 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13

 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

 In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
- C. S. Lewis - The Four Loves

 When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
- Chinese Proverb

 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 1:8

 I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle
- E E Cummings

 Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
- Francis Chan

 It's not about time, it's about choices. How are you spending your choices?
- Beverly Adamo

 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
- Matthew 7:12

 You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
- Lee Iacocca

 With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 You have to accept whatever comes and the only thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 4:6-7

 If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar

 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
- James 1:2-3

 I know that you can do the impossible.
- Terry Fox

 To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

 If you think of vision and mission as an organization's head and heart, the values it holds are its soul.
- Buzotta

 Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
- Rene Descardes

 I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
- Jung

 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
- Galatians 6:7-8

 You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life.
- John Addison

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

Posts from 9/10-13/14

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
- Psalm 16:8

 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
- Psalm 34:8

 Age is not a matter of years. It is a state of mind.
- Robert Collier

 Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Ed Cunningham

 Worry is a misuse of imagination.
- Dan Zadra

 Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple - yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
- Bits and Pieces

 If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
- St. Clement of Alexandra

 Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
- Voltaire

 Don't let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.
- Kimberly Jones

 God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
- C.S. Lewis

 The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
- Horace Bushnell

 The moment where you doubt whether you can fly, you seas for ever being able to do it.
- Peter Pan

 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
- Psalm 139:1-4

 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- E E Cummings

 Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
- Isaiah 46:4

Posts from 1/14/2013

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

 You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life.
- John Addison

 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy."
- 1 Peter 1:15-16

 Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
- Les Brown

 I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle
- E E Cummings