Posts from 4/24/13

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
- Zig Ziglar

 There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers & were glad when you had found them. Become that child again: even now.
- C.S. Lewis

 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?
- 1 Corinthians 15:55

 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon

 Say Yes to Life. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- Henry James

 The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen

 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18

Posts from 4/22-23/13

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
- John 15:4

 You are up and you are happy. You are down and you are sad. All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. This is what life is all about. Once balanced, no more ups and downs, but bliss and joy and silence and gratitude.
- Tishan

 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

 Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
- Psalms 56:4

 It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill.... Let [it] go...and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time.
- C.S. Lewis

 To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Kahlil Gibran

 The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkopf

 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:8

 Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

Posts from 4/18-21/13

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
- Saraha

 Do not be afraid to give up the good for the great.
- Kenny Rogers

 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
- Psalms 139:23, 24

 There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
- C.S. Lewis

 Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
- Mario Fernandez

 Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
- Denis Waitley

 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
- Luke 9:23-24

 Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
- James Allen

 Our power is in our ability to decide.
- Buckminster Fuller

 What you do today can change the course of your life far into the future. Today is critical. Today really counts.
- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

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

 Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
- Denis Waitley

 The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
- C.S. Lewis

 Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
- Horace

 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
- Romans 3:23-24

 When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
- Willie Nelson

 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:25-26

 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 19:3

Posts from 4/17/13

Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that someone will ask me, What's the secret of it? I shall say simply this: I get up when I fall down.
- Paul Harve

 Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

 We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

 Never confuse movement with action.
- Ernest Hemingway

 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
- 1 Peter 2:24

 Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
- Alice MacDougall

Posts from 4/16/13

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
- Roger Von Oech

 Big journeys begin with small steps.
#SimpleQuotes

 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
- Psalms 130:3, 4

 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

 Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.
- Author Unknown

 At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” The lost will say, “We were always in Hell.”
- C.S.Lewis

 What you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals - what you will become is the winner you were born to be!
- Zig Ziglar

 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:6-8

Posts from 4/15/13

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So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
- John 12:35

 Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
- Bill Gates

 I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.
- Robert J. Ringer

 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
- Romans 5:10

 Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett

 Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them.
- Peter Reese

Posts From 4/11-14/13

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Hebrews 12:2

 Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
- Psalms 119:105

 Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford

 The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand

 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
- Ephesians 1:7

 Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to make more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young

 Kites rise against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill

 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14-15

 Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.
- Author Unknown

 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
- Philippians 4:6

 For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
- Jimmy Dean

 Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.
- Douchan Gersi

 It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
- Vaclav Havel

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

 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
- Psalms 119:165

 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
- Psalms 47:7