Posts from 11/5-11/14

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
- 1 Peter 5:8-9

 Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel A Barker

 And all your future lies beneath your hat.
- John Oldham

 The early bird catches the worm.
- William Camden

 Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W Clement Stone

 Don't try to change people. Just love them. Love is what changes us.
- Author Unknown

 Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
- John Wayne

 Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
- William James

 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

 Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold Geneen

 Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and
business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you
associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
- Brian Tracy

 Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
- 1 John 4:21

 Any man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.
- Jock Ewing

 When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
- Erma Bombeck

 He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- Cesare Pavese

 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Philippians 4:4

 Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
- Ancient Indian Proverb

 When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

 One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing, is doing more.
- Washington Irvin

 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

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

 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
- 1 Peter 3:8

 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
- Philippians 2:1-2

 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13

 The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
- Will Henry

 All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

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

 Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
- James G. Bilkey

 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
- John 14:15

 Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
- Thomas Jefferson

 To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
- Sir John Lubbock

 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- 1 John 4:16

 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy

Posts from 2/26-28/14

Your business is never really good or bad "out there", your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.
- Zig Ziglar

 Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson

 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
- Proverbs 17:9

 If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.
- C.S. Lewis

 Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D Rockefeller

 Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
- Bob Packwood

 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
- 1 Peter 1:13

 A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
- Meher Baba

 Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
- James Alle

 Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises
- Demosthenes

 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
- 1 John 4:18

 A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
- Elmer G. Letterman

 I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen Covey

 Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul impossible.
- Michel Eyquem

 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

 Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C's. They are: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy, and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney

 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
- Ephesians 2:4, 5

So many fail because they don't get started; they don't go.
- W Clement Stone

 Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
- Jim Rohn

 If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.
- Neale Donald Walsch

 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21

 Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead; sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end, it is only with yourself.
- Mary Schmich

Posts from 9/24-25/13

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
- Isaiah 40:28

 Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
- Plato

 You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.
- Scott Sorrell

 We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives. Some lessons are painful, some are painless. But, all are priceless.
- Unknown

 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
- 2 Timothy 1:13-14

 In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
- Charles Buxton

 Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
- C.S. Lewis

 Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W Clement Stone

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
- Proverbs 16:16

 In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining who we are.
- Max DePree

 I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
- Charles Dickens

Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.
- Robert H. Schuller

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
- Matthew 28:18-20

 Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
- Charlotte Bronte

Posts from 1/10/2013

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
- Psalm 104:33-34

 I praise loudly; I blame softly.
- Queen Catherine II

 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

 So many fail because they don't get started; they don't go.
- W Clement Stone

 What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
- Michael Josephson