Posts from 11/20/13

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
- Luke 15:7

 Nightmares don't last.
- C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lad

 When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
- Confucius

 Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
- Doug Firebaugh

 There's not a lot you can do about the national economy, but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.
- Zig Ziglar

 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
- Ephesians 2:8-9

 All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
- Orison Swett Marden

Posts from 9/18-22/13

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

 No feeling is final.
- Rainer Marie Rilke

 Know or listen to those who know.
- Baltasar Gracian
 
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,
- Psalm 95:6-7

 Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
- Unknown

 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,
- Ephesians 2:19

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
- Joshua 1:9

 No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

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

 A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
- James Allen

 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
- Proverbs 22:6

 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

 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
- Romans 6:11, 12

 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
- Romans 6:14

Posts from 8/29-9/2/13

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
- Art Williams

 Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Jim Rohn

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.
- Luke 6:37

 Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill

 For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
- Jim Rohn

 When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
- Unknown

 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

 There’s no substitute for consistency.
- Author Unknown

 Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

 Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
- Jim Rohn

 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Ephesians 2:10

 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
- Proverbs 3:3, 4

 Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
- Author Unknown

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides

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

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
- Romans 14:8

 Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.
- Author Unknown

 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
- Proverbs 2:6-8

 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."
- John 6:35

 The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become–because He made us.
- C.S. Lewis

 The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be.
- Conversations With God

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90% chance or a 50% chance or a 1% chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
- Lance Armstrong

 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1

 It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau