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Showing posts with label Tobias Wolff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tobias Wolff. Show all posts

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Posts from 9/15-20/15

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
- Bob Goff

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

 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
- Hebrews 7:25

 It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
- Alvin Toffler

 The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be.
- Author Unknown

 Never, never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- Romans 12:21

 To become new means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go.
- C.S. Lewis

 Make time to accept responsibility. Your life is exactly that – It’s your life. It is created by you. You are constantly making choices, constantly creating new experiences. And although we an be affected by circumstances which can seem to be completely out of our control. Essentially, we decide the direction in which we walk.
- Nicholas Watkins

 The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
- Luke 19:10

 No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake

 No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

 Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.
- L.J. Cardina Suenens

 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Galatians 2:20

 No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

 No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
- Andrew Carnegie

 Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas

 If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
- Matthew 18:15

 Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
- Paul J. Meyer

 We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff

 No pressure, no diamonds.
- Mary Case

 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

 All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

 You must listen to your heart and follow it or it will find a million ways to remind you that there is something missing.
- Author Unknown

 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Ephesians 4:32

 The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

 You're awake, you're awesome. Live like it.
- Kid President

 The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
- Thomas Paine

 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
- 1 Chronicles 16:11

 Beauty is measured by the ability to be yourself, not what the world expects you to be.
- Author Unknown

 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- James 4:7

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Posts from 5/2-5/13

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey


 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
- Galatians 6:7


 The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
- Zig Ziglar


 Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas


 Never, never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill


 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


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


 Success can't be forced.
- Loretta Young


 We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff


 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:7


 We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
- C.S. Lewis


 No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo


 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


 The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
- Robert G. Ingersoll


May the forth be with you.

 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
- Philippians 4:8