Posts from 6/25-28/14

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
- John 14:6

 We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with pure, unconditioned awareness.
- Eknath Easwaran

 Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
- Lady Bird Johnson

 If you can't do great big things, do great little things.
- Author Unknown

 Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
- Jimmy Johnson

 Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.
- Douchan Gersi

 Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
- Steven Pressfield

 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalm 18:2

 It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
- Vaclav Havel

 Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
- Dale Dauten

 God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
- C.S. Lewis 

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Jim Rohn

 May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
- William Ellery Channing

 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- Psalm 121:1, 2

 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

 Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 A thousand disappointments in the past cannot equal the power of one positive action right now.
- Author Unknown

 Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
- Zig Ziglar

 Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
- Bill Gates

 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
- 1 Peter 2:24

Posts from 2/11-17/13

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
- Proverbs 25:28

 The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
- Oscar Wilde

 Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalm 97:10

 If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- Jim Rohn

 A jug fills drop by drop.
- Buddha

 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 5:14-16

 Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.
- Author Unknown

 The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis

 Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
- Eknath Easwaran

 Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
- Miguel Ruiz

 Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.
- Nehemiah 4:14b

 Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
- David Bly

 Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
- Billy Graham 

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
- 1 John 4:18

  Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
- Leo F. Buscaglia

 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.
- Proverbs 5:21

 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
- Lamentations 3:22, 23

 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."
- Job 1:21

 People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
- Earl Nightingale