Posts from 2/11-12/14

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
- African Proverb

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- Mark Twain

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin

 I love you, O Lord, my strength. 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 18:1, 2

 Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

 No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
- Hosea Ballou

 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 11:28

 A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
- William Arthur Ward

 A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White

 Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Author Unknown

 Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
- Proverbs 21:21

 Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

 Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke

 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
- John 14:1-3

 There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
- Ben Williams

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 1/2/2013

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
- Hebrews 12:28-29

 Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
- Voltaire

 Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- Samuel Butler

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 11:28

 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- Mary Ann Evans

 Leaders recognize that great innovation comes from observing the same ideas as everyone else and seeing something different.
- Reed Markham

 The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot