Posts from 9/8/15

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
- Martin Luther

 Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
- Alice MacDougall

 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
- Romans 1:20

 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon

 The road to success for 99% of people isn't a jump, it's a steady incline from one successful project to the next.
- Lee Morris

 Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

 How to succeed? Try hard enough.
- Malcolm Forbes

Posts from 7/9-11/14

Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
- Romans 14:10-12

 Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
- Susan M. Dodd

 Never give up. Never ever give up. Why? Because just when you are about to give up is when things are about to turn around in a grand way. Hold on. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.
- Sonia Ricotti

 Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.
- Mila Bron

 What one approves, another scorns,
And thus his nature each discloses:
You find the rosebush full of thorns,
I find the thornbush full of roses.
- Arthur Guiterman

 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon

 When you truly believe in what you are doing, it shows. And it pays. Winners in life are those who are excited about where they're going.
- Author Unknown

 How to succeed? Try hard enough.
- Malcolm Forbes

 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19

 The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
- Scott Hamilton

 Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
- Oprah Winfrey

 A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
- Chinese Proverb

 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25-27

 Fill your mind with truth, your heart with love, your life with service.
- Author Unknown

 You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb

 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
- Colossians 1:27-28

 In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
- Thomas Carlyle

 A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
- Mencius

 Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
- Proverbs 29:23

 Making mistakes is something everyone does. Learning from them is not.
- Author Unknown

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 5/16-19/13

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
- Malcolm Forbes

 You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

 But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Luke 6:27, 28

 Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

 In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

 Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
- Earl Nightingale

 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Colossians 4:5-6

 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.
- Ecclesiastes 3:14

 If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.
- Will Rogers

 Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie

 I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela

 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 8:1-2

 Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James

Posts from 4/25-28/13

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
- C.S. Lewis

 How to succeed? Try hard enough.
- Malcolm Forbes

 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"—when you have it with you.
- Proverbs 3:27, 28

 There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

 Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- Samuel Johnson

 Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
- Denis Waitley

 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
- Romans 10:9-10

 Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people.
- C. S. Lewis

 I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
- William DeMille

 Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
- Muhammad Ali

 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58

 Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
- Victoria Holt

 Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Jesus Christ was either a liar, a lunatic, or He was who He said He was.
- C.S.Lewis

 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

 In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
- Friedrich Schlegel

 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
- Psalms 60:12