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Showing posts with label Voltaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voltaire. Show all posts

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Posts from 4/22-16/15

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
- Orison Swett Marden

 Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Anthony Robbins

 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- Ephesians 5:1-2

 Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

 Life is not the way it’s suppose to be, It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
- Virginia Satir

 Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything.
- Author Unknown

 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- Amos 5:24

 Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
- Brad Henry

 The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon

 One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill

 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
- Amos 5:14-15

 The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- C.G. Jung

 Never underestimate the power of passion.
- Eve Sawyer

 Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire

 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
- Proverbs 21:3

 Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
- Psalm 46:1-3

 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Romans 13:9

 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
- James 2:8

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Posts from 9/10-13/14

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
- Psalm 16:8


 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
- Psalm 34:8


 Age is not a matter of years. It is a state of mind.
- Robert Collier


 Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Ed Cunningham


 Worry is a misuse of imagination.
- Dan Zadra


 Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple - yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
- Bits and Pieces


 If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
- St. Clement of Alexandra


 Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
- Voltaire


 Don't let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.
- Kimberly Jones


 God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
- C.S. Lewis


 The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
- Horace Bushnell


 The moment where you doubt whether you can fly, you seas for ever being able to do it.
- Peter Pan


 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt


 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
- Psalm 139:1-4


 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- E E Cummings


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

Thursday, January 3, 2013

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