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 10/1/13

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
- Romans 12:1, 2

 What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.
- Albert Einstein

 A life without cause is a life without effect.
- Barbarella

 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
- Titus 2:2

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
- Confucius

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
- Isaiah 46:4

 Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
- Lou Holtz

Posts from 9/13-15/13

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

 Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

 For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
- Ecclesiastes 5:7

 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
- Romans 12:4-5

All you can do is all you can do. But all you can do is enough.
- Art Williams

 You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
- Isaiah 26:3

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown

 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
- Philippians 1:21

Posts from 7/27-29/13

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
- Les Brown

 What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
- Saint Augustine

 Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha

 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
- Romans 10:13

 Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
- Zig Ziglar

 Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine

 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
- Romans 12:3

 It was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
- C.S. Lewis

 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
- Luke 5:30-32

 I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Psalm 142:5

 Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
- Steve Job

 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
- Jeremiah 17:9-10

 I never waste time looking back.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Posts from 6/24-25/13

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
- Romans 12:19

 I will say this about being an optimist: Even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.
- Frank Hughes

 When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
- Byron Katie

 None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Japanese Proverb

 Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11

 Failures are part of life.
If you don't fail, you don't learn.
If you don't learn, you'll never change.
- Unknown

 The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- Anthony Robbins

 Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein

 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.
- 1 John 3:18

 Luck is believing you're lucky.
- Tennessee Williams

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
- Katherine Paterson

 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

 Real wealth equals ideas plus energy.
- Buckminster Fuller

 You are free to believe what you choose and what you do attests to what you believe.
- A Course of Miracles

Posts from 6/?-17/13

Sorry for the slacking on posts these, I will try to do better at this.  So here is the past few days.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God
- Micah 6:8

 Happy Fathers Day!!
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Ephesians 6:4

But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
- Psalm 103:17-18

 If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

 You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
- Neil Gaiman

 I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
- Maya Angelou

 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
- Hosea 14:9

 Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken.
- Shakti Gawain

 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
- Romans 12:16

 Everything is practice.
- Pele

 People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peal

 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
- Acts 20:24

 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
- Romans 1:20

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
- Nolan Bushnell

 Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you're appreciating, you are planning. What are you planning?
- Abraham

Posts from 5/13/13

He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
- Psalms 103:9-12

 Make each day your masterpiece.
- John Wooden

 I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
- Albert Einstein

 One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.
- Napoleon Hill

 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
- Romans 12:12

 We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.
- Pema Chodron