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 10/17-20/14

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn

 The future is open; we decide what’s in it.
- Wolfgang Sonnenburg

 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
- 1 John 5:12

 Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

 The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.
- American Proverb

 Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
- Jim Rohn

 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalm 27:1

 Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
- Author Unknown

 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:7-8

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

 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
- Proverbs 12:16

 To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success.
- Anna Pavlova

 The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
- Karen S. Magee

 For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- Psalm 16:8

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 1/5-8/14

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 7/27-29/13

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
- Les Brown

 What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
- Saint Augustine

 Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha

 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
- Romans 10:13

 Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
- Zig Ziglar

 Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine

 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
- Romans 12:3

 It was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
- C.S. Lewis

 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
- Luke 5:30-32

 I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Psalm 142:5

 Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
- Steve Job

 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
- Jeremiah 17:9-10

 I never waste time looking back.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
- Walt Disney

Posts from 1/11/2013

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

 When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
- Nido Qubein

 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21

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

 Set some goals, then demolish them!
- Unknown

 When placed in command - take charge.
- Norman Schwarzkopf