Posts from 5/20-21/14

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
- Psalm 139:23-24

 You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier

 Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
- Psalm 139:14

 Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
- James R. Cook

 The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
- Zephaniah 3:17

 Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
- Michael Jordan

 I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be; for I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

 You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
- Jim Rohn

 The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.
- 2 Timothy 1:9

Posts from 5/17-19/14

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

 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
- Ephesians 4:32

 Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw

 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Hebrews 4:12

 Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

 If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
- Jim Rohn

 Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
- Denis Waitley

 Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.
- Isaiah 25:4

 When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it.
- Jim Rohn

 The Soul always knows what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is to silence the mind.
- Caroline Myss

Posts from 4/30-5/4/14

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

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

 There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
- Elbert Hubbard

 To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
- Gautama Buddha

 Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
- Matthew 7:24, 25

 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

 Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.
- Terri Guillemets

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
- Job 19:25

 The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
- Will Henry

 Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.
- Charles Dickens

 I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
- Confucius

 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
- 1 John 4:18

 One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
- Richard Nelson Bolles

 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

May the 4th be with you!

Posts from 4/25-29/14

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

 There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
- Alexander Woollcott

 The most effective way to do it is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart

 A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:38-39

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

 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
- John 10:28-30

 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
- Hebrews 12:14

 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
- 1 John 4:11, 12

 Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you greater than any obstacle.
- Christian D. Larson

 The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- Steve Jobs

 Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
- John C. Maxwell

 Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
- Proverbs 17:9

 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

 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
- 1 John 3:18

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

 Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
- Author Unknown

 The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
- Debbie Fields

 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- Romans 13:9-10

 Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.
- Leonard Jacobson

Posts from 4/22-24/14

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

 Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou

 Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi

 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

 Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 How far you go in your life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Romans 8:35, 37

 Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle

 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost

 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
- John 12:25, 26

 Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
- William Feather

 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- Psalm 63:1

 The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
- Author Unknown

 Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:38-39

 The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Author Unknown

Posts from 4/15-21/14

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
- Hebrews 13:5

 There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall

 The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- John Burroughs

 Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
- Brian Tracy

 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3

 The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vincent T Lombardi

 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

 You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end.
- Author Unknown

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

 

 Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Sydney J. Harris

 

 Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
- Wilfred A Peterson

 

 There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Lady Blessington

 

 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

 

 If you cannot save money, then the seeds of greatness are not in you.
- Brian Tracy

 

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
- John 11:25, 26

 

 I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
- George Patton

 

 Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
- Orison Swett Marden

 

 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

 

 Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'
- Jim Rohn

 

 The price of success must be paid in full...in advance.
- Brian Tracy

 

 Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold Glascow

 

 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

 

 Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.
- H.W. Byles

 

 If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom

 

 Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Jim Rohn

 

 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
- Mark 15:37-39

 

 Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T Washington

 

 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

 

 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
- Matthew 28:2-6

 

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
- 2 Timothy 2:22

Posts from 4/11-14/14

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Luke 6:27, 28

 The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have 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 the 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

 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

 Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
- Robert Dieffenbach

 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
- Ephesians 1:7

 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15

 Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
- Brian Tracy

 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost His crucifixion.
- C.S. Lewis

 You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Matthew 5:43-45

 The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage
- Peter Senge