Posts from 10/21-26/14

When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
- Psalm 94:18-19

 Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams.
- Author Unknown

 A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
- Elbert Hubbard

 Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Herman Cain

 By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalm 42:8

 One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You’re the one who’ll decide what you want to be.
- Jaime Escalante

 If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
- Buddhist Proverb

 Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
- Baltasar Gracian

 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- 2 Corinthians 13:11

 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

 The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
- Larry Flynt

 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.
- Psalm 116:1-2

 The best dreams happen when you're awake.
- Author Unknown

 When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Confucious

 I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln

 Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.
- Psalm 119:165

 Success is ninety-nine percent failure.
- Soichiro Honda

 Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
- Anonymous

 Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
- C.S. Lewis 

 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
- John 6:29

 Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
- William Penn

 Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman

 I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen Covey

 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:28

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

 An unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

 If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
- Latin Proverb

 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 22:6

 Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have.
- Zig Ziglar

 To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is.
- Proverbs 15:23

 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
- Proverbs 9:10

9/17-20/14

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
- Marion Wright Edelman

 The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor, and style.
- Maya Angelou

 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

 It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Erma Bombeck

 Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Effie Jones

 Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes ~ it is not something physical.
- Sophia Loren

 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
- Romans 1:16

 Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
- Arthur Ransome

 If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
- Joseph Addison

 The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary.
- May B Smith

 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
- Ephesians 6:13

 It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
- Italian Proverb

 All the happiness you ever find lies in you.
- Anonymous

 The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

 The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence.
- Jim Rohn

 I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.
- Psalm 119:7

 It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do.
- Brian Tracy

 Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
- Henry David Thoreau

 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:10

 He who laughs, lasts.
- Mary Poole

 You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Anonymous

 The starting point of all achievement is desire… Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
- Napoleon Hill

 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.
- Psalm 119:30

 Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
- Blaise Pascal

 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- Psalm 23:4

Posts from 6/1-4/14

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- 1 John 4:10

 The optimist see opportunity in every danger, the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill

 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
- Psalm 103:8

 I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.
- Ann B Davis

Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
- Buddha

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15:13

Winning doesn’t always mean being first.
- Bonnie Blair

 Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
- Norman Schwarzkopf

 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Proverbs 15:1

 Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

 Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.
- Merle Miller

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
- Galatians 5:22-23

 Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
- Henry J Kaiser

 But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.
- Luke 18:27

 Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.
- Deepak Chopra

 To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Author Unknown

 The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
- Laurence Sterne

 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
- 1 Peter 2

 Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Posts from 3/1-4/14

We love because he first loved us.
- 1 John 4:19

 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

 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
- Matthew 22:37-39

 The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time.
- Franklin Field

 What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

 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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran

 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
- 1 John 4:9

 Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes

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

 Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Posts from 11/16-19/13

So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
- Hebrews 13:6

 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
- Mark 8:34

 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
- Romans 14:8

 Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.
- Emil Zatopek

 We were born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.
- 1 Peter 1:24-25

 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier

 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
- Matthew 11:28-30

 If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’
- Brian Tracy

 It's not about having the skill to do something. It's about having the will, desire and commitment to be your best.
- Robert Hernandez

 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
- Romans 12:1

 The only way around is through.
- Robert Frost

Posts from 9/6-9/13

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Psalm 23:1

 For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.
- Psalm 92:4

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

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence. For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
- Psalm 9:3, 4

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
- Jean Paul Sartre

 Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- Aristotle

 The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
- Larry Flynt

 Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Posts from 8/26-28/13

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.
- Proverbs 15:16

 If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
- Jim Rohn

 It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
- Barbara Sher

 Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
- Author Unknown

 For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.
- Psalm 149:4

 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
- 1 Timothy 6:12

 Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

 To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
- Jim Rohn

 If you are always dwelling in trouble, change your address.
- American Proverb

 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- Luke 12:6-7

 If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
- John Maxwell

 An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu

 The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
- Jim Rohn

 The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
- Proverbs 16:9

 Set small goals for yourself and meet them. You are responsible to take care of yourself.
- Author Unknown

 The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
- Psalm 46:1

 A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold Glasgow

 The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
- Jim Rohn

Posts from 6/19-23/13

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard
- C.S. Lewis

 The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- Jeremiah 29:11

 Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- Walter Brunell

 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

 Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell

 The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
- Oprah

 What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Goethe

 Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

 As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
- Psalms 103:12

 When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
- Jared Sparks

 The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
- Andrew Schneider

 So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
- Hebrews 9:28

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Household gods give worthless advice, fortune-tellers predict only lies, and interpreters of dreams pronounce falsehoods that give no comfort. So my people are wandering like lost sheep; they are attacked because they have no shepherd.
- Zechariah 10:2

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Life is a promise, fulfill it...
- Mother Teresa

 Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great!
- Orison Swett Marden

 gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Proverbs 15:1

 When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Author Unknown

 Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.
- Isaiah 28:23

Posts from 2/28-3/3/13

Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
- Exodus 15:6

 Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. You next day will go much more smoothly.
- Tom Hopkins

 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- Romans 13:9-10

 If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
- Peace Pilgrim

 Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

 The only way around is through.
- Robert Frost

 Regardless of what you are or what you have been, you can still become what you may want to be.
- W. Clement Stone

 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
- Isaiah 41:10, 11

 Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.
- Julia Morgan

 Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
- Denis Waitley

 To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
- John H Patterson

 He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
- Psalms 18:16, 17

 For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you."
- Isaiah 41:13

 For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be. What is once well done, is well done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Posts from 2/18-19/13

We love because he first loved us.
- 1 John 4:19

 Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'
- Dr. Robert H. Schuller

Today I choose to live with gratitude for the LOVE that fills my heart,
the PEACE that rests within my spirit
and the voice of HOPE that says all things are possible.
- Unknown

 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
- 1 Corinthians 13: 6-7

 If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
- Psalm 32:8

 Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.
- Phillip Gribble

 Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.
- Theodore M. Burton

 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16

 An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- Buddha

 Any idea held in the mind that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.
- Andrew Carnegie

Posts from 1/10/2013

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
- Psalm 104:33-34

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

 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- Ephesians 5:1-2

 So many fail because they don't get started; they don't go.
- W Clement Stone

 What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
- Michael Josephson