Posts from 8/5-6/13

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
- Luke 6:41, 42

 An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding, and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

 Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 1:6

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

 Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
- Author Unknown

 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
- Luke 9:24, 25

 Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in the fish he seeks; with each cast properly made, we will bring what we need to us, but first we must hurl ourselves into the depths without knowing just what lies beneath us.
- David Spangler

 Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.
- C.S. Lewis

 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach

 Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
- Jeremiah 32:17

 I am a slow walker...but I never walk backwards.
- Abraham Lincoln

Posts from 7/30-31/13

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. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
- Matthew 22:37-40

 Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill

 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
- Proverbs 14:34

 Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
- William A. Ward

 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.
- Psalm 33:12

 If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
- Abigail Van Buren

 Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointment.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.
- Luke 6:45

The best revenge is massive success.
- Frank Sinatra

 In that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.
- Isaiah 12:4

 Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
- Farrah Gray

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Posts from 2/2-4/2013

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end. Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
- Psalm 119:33-34

 The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles

 I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
- James Cash Penney

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
- Proverbs 19:11

 Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
- Malcolm Cowley

 Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
- David Bly

 You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.
- Psalm 86:5

 Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
- Bernard Meltzer

 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
- 1 John 4:7

 Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.
- Sonia Choquette

 The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
- Lee Iacocca

 However, as it is written:“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him.
- 1 Corinthians 2:9

 Everyday, God gives us the sun - and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything..."
- Paulo Coelho

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

 Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something…hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
- Roger Staubach