Posts from 2/26-27/13

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- 2 Peter 3:8

 The noblest search is the search for excellence.
- Lyndon Johnson

 Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
- Bob Brown

 No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
- Matthew 6:24

 The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
- Michael J. Fox

 Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop.
- unknown

 The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
- James Broughton

Posts from 2/22-25/13

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
- Galatians 6:9

 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
- Colossians 3:23-24

 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
- Ezekiel 36:23

 The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed
- Henry Ford

 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Proverbs 18:24

 The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
- Thomas J Peters

 It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

Posts from 2/21/13

For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
- Hebrews 2:18

 Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

 If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Authur Ward

 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- 1 John 3:11

 Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa

 The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
- Thomas Merton

Posts from 2/18-19/13

We love because he first loved us.
- 1 John 4:19

 Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'
- Dr. Robert H. Schuller

Today I choose to live with gratitude for the LOVE that fills my heart,
the PEACE that rests within my spirit
and the voice of HOPE that says all things are possible.
- Unknown

 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
- 1 Corinthians 13: 6-7

 If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
- Psalm 32:8

 Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.
- Phillip Gribble

 Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.
- Theodore M. Burton

 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16

 An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- Buddha

 Any idea held in the mind that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.
- Andrew Carnegie

Posts from 2/11-17/13

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
- Proverbs 25:28

 The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
- Oscar Wilde

 Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalm 97:10

 If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- Jim Rohn

 A jug fills drop by drop.
- Buddha

 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 5:14-16

 Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.
- Author Unknown

 The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis

 Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
- Eknath Easwaran

 Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
- Miguel Ruiz

 Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.
- Nehemiah 4:14b

 Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
- David Bly

 Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
- Billy Graham 

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

  Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
- Leo F. Buscaglia

 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.
- Proverbs 5:21

 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
- Lamentations 3:22, 23

 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."
- Job 1:21

 People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
- Earl Nightingale

Posts from 2/7-10/13

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
- 1 John 4:9

 F. L. Y.
First Love Yourself
Others will come next!
- Unknown

 Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
- Michael Leboeuf

 Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.
- Proverbs 21:21

 Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses...on your powers, instead of your problems.
- Paul J. Meyer

 Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.
- Unknown

 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- 1 John 4:10

 Sometimes, we just need to be amazed by the small things.
- Angela Pacheco

 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
- Proverbs 30:5

 Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievement.
- Mark Victor Hansen

 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
- Psalms 19:1

 Enlightenment is not about imagining figures of light but of making the darkness conscious.
- C.G. Jung

Posts from 2/6/2013

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:8

 Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt

 I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalm 18:1-2

 Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
- Mark Twain

 No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

 You never know when you're making a memory.
- Rickie Lee Jones