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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandberg A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. A fellow who says it can not be done is likely to be interrupted by someone doing it. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. A fool tells us what he will do; a boaster what he has done; the wise man does it and says nothing. A friend asks only for your time not your money. -- Chinese Proverb A friend is a present you give yourself by being friendly. A good example is worth a thousand sermons. A gossip is one who can give you all the details without knowing any of the facts. A joy shared is a double joy, but a burden shared is half a burden. -- Bob Russell A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Mark Twain A little lie is like a little pregnancy it does not take long before everyone knows. -- C. S. Lewis A man at war with himself will be at war with everyone else. -- Dag Hammarskjold A man can fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- John Burroughs A man cannot think constantly of himself without being discouraged. -- David Grayson A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. A man who is too busy for God is too busy. A measure of a man's success is not what he achieves, but what he overcomes. -- Booker T. Washington A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk. A mother is a person who sees that there are only four pieces of pie for five persons and promptly remarks that she has never cared for pie. A persons true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching. A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about. A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. -- Joseph Hall A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. A sneer is the weapon of the weak. -- James Russell Lowell Ability is of little account without opportunity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -- Victor Hugo Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells and the deeper it sinks into the mind. -- Samuel Coleridge Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. -- Lord Chesterfield All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. -- Ellen Glasgow All heaven listens when we send up a heartfelt prayer for an enemy's good. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much. -- Oscar Wilde An apology is a good way to have the last word! Many Christians believe in what Christ did for them in the past and will to do for them in the future. But they do not believe He can do anything for them now. -- Zig Ziglar An ounce of illustration is worth a ton of talk. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do! Any recipe for success must include the ability to follow instructions. As a man grows older and wiser, he talks less and says more. As breath is to the body, prayer is to the soul. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Avoid popularity if you would have peace. -- Abraham Lincoln Be careful of your thoughts: They may become words at any moment. Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow. -- Francis De Sales Be patient with everyone, but above all, yourself. -- Francis De Sales Being at peace with yourself is a direct result of finding peace with God. Believing Jesus died - that is history; believing Jesus died for me - that is salvation. Better never to have been born at all, than never to have been born again. Between the great things we cannot do and the little things we will not do, the danger is that we will do nothing. -- H. G. Weaver Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape. -- Paul W. Powell By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Calvary is a telescope through which we took into the long vista of eternity, and see the love of God breaking forth into time. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Calvary is where God and mankind met, and God won! Calvary shows how far men will go in sin, and how far God went for man's salvation. -- H. D. Trumbull Character is not made in a crisis. It is only exhibited in a crisis! Character is not made in crises, it is only exhibited. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Choice, not chance, determines human destiny. Christ hates sin but loves the sinner. Christ in the heart is heaven on earth. Christ is always closest when the cross is heaviest. -- E. Stanley Jones Christ is the great central fact in the world's history; to Him everything looks forward or backward. -- Spurgeon Christians do not gossip. They just share prayer requests! Christmas is the Promise, and Easter is the Proof. Christ's limitless resources meet endless needs. Christ's soldiers fight best on their knees. -- Dwight Moody Compassion is what makes a person feel pain when someone else hurts. Confessing your sins is no substitute for forsaking them. Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. Contentment isn't getting what we want, but being satisfied with what we have. Correct your own mistakes by avoiding those of others. Courtesy can be understood in any language. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. -- William Shakespeare Daily prayers lessen daily cares. Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life. Did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request. Dignity isn't the way you look. It is the way you act! Disappointment is often the salt of life. -- Theodore Parker Do not face a day until you have faced God. Do not grumble because you do not get what you want; be thankful you do not get what you deserve! Do not pray for an easy task. Pray to be stronger. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life. -- Charles E. Hummel Don't let your possessions possess you. -- M. R. Siemens Each loving act says loud and clear, "I love you. God loves you. I care. God cares." Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. -- Thomas Moore Enthusiasm is contagious - and so is the lack of it. Every day, death takes lives beyond counting, yet those who live think, "Death can never come to me this day." Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. -- J. Q. Adams Experience is a good teacher, but it is very costly. Experience is always the hardest teacher, because you take the test before you learn your lesson. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. -- Henry Ford Faith honors God; God honors faith. Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. Faith is daring the soul to go father than it can see. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that he will. Falling down doesn't make you a failure, but staying down does. Fatigue is the devil's best weapon. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. -- Cardinal Newman Fear not tomorrow, for God is already there. Fear of failure is the father of failure. Flattery is usually a lie about you, told in such a way that you'd like to believe it. For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. Freedom like health, is often appreciated only after we no longer have it. -- Zig Ziglar Friends are made by many acts, but can be lost by one. Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll show you a man who will make history; show me a man without a goal and I'll show you a stock clerk. -- J. C. Penney Give your troubles to God; He will be up all night anyway. God always gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him. God answers prayers because His children ask. God can heal a broken heart, but he has to have all the pieces. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God depends upon our dependence upon Him. God doesn't call us to be successful. He calls us to be faithful. God loves you as if you were the only one to love! -- Augustine God loves you whether you like it or not! -- Zig Ziglar God rewards not success but faithfulness. God sometimes snuffs out our brightest candle so that we may look up to His eternal stars. -- Vance Havner God took the worst thing that man could do to his Son, and transformed it into the best thing he could do for man. God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for him to put it. -- Augustine God will not change your will against your will. God's answers are wiser than our prayers. God's giving is inseparably connected with our asking. Good endings come from prayerful beginnings. God can't do three things: He can't lie. He can't love sin. He can't hate the sinner. -- Betty McKnight He gives little who gives much with a frown; he gives much who gives a little with a smile. He is richest who is content with the least. -- Socrates He prays best, who loves best. He stands best, who kneels most. He that won't be counseled, can't be helped. -- Benjamin Franklin He who is born of God is certain to resemble his Father. He who lives well is the best preacher. Honest confession is good for the soul, but hard on the reputation. How many people have made you homesick to know God? I am sorry for the man who can't feel the whip when it is laid on the other man's back. -- Abraham Lincoln I asked, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" Then I realized I am somebody. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. -- Abraham Lincoln I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will tune in. -- George Washington Carver I preached as never to preach again, as a dying man to dying men. -- Robert Murray McCheyne I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. -- Booker T. Washington I think that if God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. -- C. S. Lewis Idle Christians are not tempted of the devil so much as they tempt the devil to tempt them. If afflictions refine some, they consume others. -- Thomas Fuller If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions. If Christ is the way, why waste time traveling some other way? If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about. If prayer does not drive sin out of your life, sin will drive prayer out. If the Bible is mistaken in telling us from where we came, how can we trust it to tell us where we are going? If the roots are deep and strong; the tree needn't worry about the wind. If trouble drives you to prayer, prayer will drive the trouble away. If we do not learn humility, we will learn humiliation. If we would read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Longfellow If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean. If you can't stand the smell of sheep, you shouldn't be a shepherd. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. If you fear that people will know, then don't do it. If you find it difficult to stand for Jesus, try kneeling first. If you have something you can't live without, you don't own it; it owns you. If you never have a dream, you will never have a dream come true. -- Bob Dale If you pray, you don't need to worry; and if you don't pray, it does no good to worry. -- Zig Ziglar If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. -- Charles F. Kettering If you worry, you do not trust. If you trust, you do not worry. -- G. H. Lunn If you're heading in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns. Illustrations, like windows, let light into the mind. -- C. H. Spurgeon In a sermon, Greek and Hebrew are like underwear: they add a lot of support, but you don't want to let them show. In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words, than words without heart. -- John Bunyan In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it. In worship man reaches upward and finds God bending downward. -- Rolia O. Swisher Into each life some rain must fall. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is better to be silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. -- Madame Dorothee Deluzy It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor. -- Eric Hoffer It is human to stand with the crowd. It is divine to stand alone. It is not the sense of His presence, it is the fact of His presence that is our strength and stay. -- Amy Carmichael It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation. It may be lost in a moment. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. -- Herbert Samuel It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. -- St. Augustine It's the little things in life that determine the big things. It's a pity more people can't travel the straight and narrow path without becoming straight-laced and narrow minded. It's not the parts of the Bible I don't understand that trouble me, it's the parts I do. -- Mark Twain Jesus is a friend who knows all your faults and still loves you anyway. Jesus is a friend who walks in when the world has walked out. Jesus never taught men how to make a living. He taught men how to live. -- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. Joy is multiplied as it is divided with others. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Kindness gives birth to kindness. Kindness is the only language that the blind can see and the deaf can hear. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -- Victor Hugo Learn from others' mistakes rather than making them all yourself. Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber Let us not major on minor things. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -- Norman Cousins Look around you and be distressed, Look within you and be depressed, Look to Jesus and be at rest. Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with. -- Peter Marshall Lost hope is the undertaker's best friend. Love is a hammer that will break the hardest heart. -- Alexander Walker Love's great desire is to give. Make every matter of care a matter of prayer. Many a man never fails because he never tried. -- Norman MacEwan Many of us who are trying to get rid of sin, are like those who destroy spiders' webs, without destroying the spiders. Many reconciliations have broken down because both parties have come prepared to forgive and unprepared to be forgiven. Master selfishness or it will master you. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. Money is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. More can be done by prayer than anything else. Prayer is our greatest weapon. More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of. Most of us would like to have a chance to prove that money can't make us happy. Most people who flee from temptation usually leave a forwarding address. Mother means selfless devotion, limitless sacrifice, and love that passes understanding. Much prayer, much power. Little prayer, little power. Nature is the art of God. -- Dante Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. No Jesus, No Life; Know Jesus, Know Life. No man's success should be built on another man's failure. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. -- Woodrow Wilson No one is hopeless whose hope is in God. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of anyone else. No pharmacist ever weighed out medicine with half as much care and exactness as God weighs out every trial he dispenses. No praying man or woman accomplishes so much, with so little expenditure of time, as when he or she is praying. -- C. E. Cowman None preaches better than the ant; and she says nothing. -- Benjamin Franklin Nothing ages us faster than hopelessness. Obedience to law is the largest liberty. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. -- Antisthenes Obstacles are those frightful things you see, when you take your eyes off the goal. Of all our troubles great or small, the greatest are those that don't happen at all. Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become. But your view becomes much more extensive. -- Charles Marowitz On a tombstone: "I Told You I Was Sick" One of the best uses of memory is to remember to forget the unpleasant things. One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned. One-half of our problems come from wanting our own way. The other half come from getting it! Only an all-powerful God can do the impossible with the impossible. Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. -- Louis L. Mann Only if a man strikes rock bottom, in the sense of his own nothingness, will he strike the Rock of Ages. Other men see only a hopeless end, but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope. -- Gilbert Beenken Our aim should be service, not success. Our children are the only earthly possessions we can take with us to glory. Our children are watching us live, and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say. Our Heavenly Father never takes anything from His children unless He means to give them something better. -- George Mueller Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. -- Martin Luther Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. -- Josh Billings Our service will not save us; but we are saved to serve. Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. Parents must get across the idea that, "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior." Patience is a quality you admire in the driver behind you, and scorn in the one ahead. People are usually down on what they are not up on. People go to the church that is dearest to them, and not the church that is nearest to them. People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- Mary Crowley People with tact have less to retract. Plan ahead...It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark. Pray in the darkness, if there be no light. -- Hartley Coleridge Prayer changes everything: It changes the one who prays, and it changes the one prayed for. Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. -- Soren Kierkegaar Prayer is a cry of hope. Prayer is essentially man standing before his God in wonder, awe, and humility; man, made in the image of God, responding to his maker. Prayer is God's way of doing God's will. Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness. Prayer is releasing the energies of God. For prayer is asking God to do what we cannot do. -- Charles Trumbull Prayer is the breath of the newborn soul, and there can be no Christian life without it. -- Rowland Hill Prayer is the only omnipotence God grants to us. Prayer is the opening of your heart to God as to a friend. You speak to Him, and He speaks back - if you'll but listen. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world! Preaching has been described this way: "A mild-mannered man standing up before mild-mannered people and exhorting them to be more mild-mannered." The true function of preaching is to disturb the comfortable and to comfort the disturbed. Prevailing prayer brings perpetual power. Procrastination is the assassination of motivation. Rather suffer an injustice than commit one. Redemption was not an afterthought with God. Rejoice that the immortal God is born that mortal men may live in eternity. -- Jan Hus Remember the banana - when it left the bunch, it got skinned. Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. -- Charles Simmons Ridicule is the language of the devil. -- Thomas Carlyle Salvation may come quietly, but we cannot remain quiet about it. Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. Seldom does God use a person greatly who has not been hurt deeply. -- A. W. Tozer Service is love in working clothes. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. -- Oliver Wendell Homes Sin is a clenched fist and its object is the face of God. Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. -- Benjamin Franklin Sin will take you further than you want to go. Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay. And sin will cost you more than you want to pay. Small faith may take you to heaven but great faith will bring heaven to you. Some fights are lost even when you win. A bulldog can whip a skunk, but is it worth it! -- Vance Havner Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat. -- Caroline Schoeder Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among the thorns. Some people count sheep, and some people talk to the Shepherd! Some people think they are generous because they give away free advice. Some want to live within the sight of a tall and stately steeple, but I want to live next door to hell and rescue hopeless people. -- Brian Barlow Someone has said that there are only two kinds of speakers: those who have something to say, and those who have to say something! Sometimes the best inspiration is born of desperation. Sometimes the Lord calms the storm; sometimes He lets the storm rage, and calms His child. Sometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles that we forget to count our blessings. Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up. Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. -- Charles Reade Success in marriage is more than finding the right person. It's becoming the right person. Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in their attainment. -- Booker T. Washington Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- William Shakespeare Tact is making your guests feel at home when you wish they were! -- Readers Digest Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Tarry at the promise till God meets you there. He always returns by way of His promises. Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. The attitude within is more important than the circumstances without. The best bridge between despair and hope is often a good night's sleep. The best thing to spend on your children is your time. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. -- Mark Twain The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone solve his. The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is to never forget the presence of Christ. -- William Barclay The best way to remember people is in prayer. The Bible has survived the ignorance of it friends and the hatred of its enemies. The biggest trouble with sin is the I in the middle of it. The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church. -- Tertullian The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. -- Samuel Johnson The Christian faith offers: Peace in war, Comfort in sorrow, Strength in weakness, Light in darkness. -- Walter A. Maier The church is full of willing people: Some are willing to work, others are willing to let them. The church is not made up of people who are better than the rest, but of people who want to become better than they are. The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. The cross is God's way of uniting suffering and love. -- Georgia Harkness The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold. -- George D. Boardman The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer. The demand for absolute liberty brings men to the depths of slavery. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William Shakespeare The Devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it. The devil is willing for a person to confess Christianity as long as he does not practice it. The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The doorway into the secret place of the Most High is always open to the hand of need, and at the knocking of that hand only. The fear of God can deliver from the fear of man. The feeblest knock will open heaven's door. The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool, or he is getting ready to skin you. -- Kin Hubbard The fewer the words, the better the prayer. -- Martin Luther The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging. The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening. The fly lands on the flypaper and says, "My flypaper," while the flypaper says, "My fly." The Gospel breaks hard hearts, and heals broken hearts. The Gospel is the greatest story ever told, about the greatest offer ever made, by the greatest person who ever lived. -- D. J. Kennedy The great purpose of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can do only a little. -- Zig Ziglar The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. -- Thomas Carlyle The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could have become. The guy pulling the oars doesn't have time to rock the boat. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. -- W. S. Ross The hardest secret for a man to keep is his opinion of himself. The hardest victory is the victory over self. -- Aristotle The heart has no secret which our conduct does not reveal. The heart is the happiest when it beats for others. The history of the church's progress, is the history of prayer. The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone. -- George Bernard Shaw The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learned by heart. The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. -- Michel de Montaigne The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. -- James Russell Lowell The monument I want, after I am dead, is a monument with two legs going around the world - a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ. -- D. L. Moody The mystery of godliness, is God humbling Himself to become man. The mystery of iniquity, is man exalting himself to become God. -- A. J. Gordon The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. The only people on the face of the earth for whom Christ can do anything are sinners. The only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy, is to make him your friend. The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The preacher who does not evangelize, will fossilize. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln The purposes of God are sometimes delayed, but never abandoned! The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use the one talent. -- Edgar W. Work The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation. -- Martin Luther The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The secret to happy living is not to do what you like but to like what you do. The seven words that will kill any church: "We've Never Done It That Way Before." The sin of idolatry that plagues the modern world is a "me first" attitude, that gives God the leftovers in thought and life. -- W. Werning The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention! The superior man blames himself, the inferior man blames others. The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school, is to let the Lord choose for me. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual, than to know no one cares or understands. -- Arthur H. Stainback The wages of sin is death - thank God I quit before pay day. -- Reamer Loomis The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. -- Nathaniel Howe The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. The world wants your best, but God wants your all. The worrying Christian does not trust God to do what's right in his life. Worry is a lack of trust and faith in God. The worst can happen but the best remains. -- Corrie ten Boom The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. -- George Bernard Shaw There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. -- Clare Boothe Luce There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. There are two days we should not worry over - yesterday and tomorrow. There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree. You can climb it or you can sit on an acorn and wait. We need to actively live the Christian life, and not passively sit on our platitudes. -- Zig Ziglar There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. -- Countess of Blessington There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -- Josh Billings There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men. -- Spurgeon There is no right way to do a wrong thing. There is not much difference between men, but the little difference there is makes all the difference in the world. -- Charles William Eliot There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us. There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better. -- L. Thomas Holdcroft There were no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan. -- Douglas MacArthur There's a new golden rule in effect today: "He who has the gold, makes up the rules." This past year, if someone had paid you ten dollars for every kind word you ever spoke about other people, and also collected five dollars for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. -- J. M. Barrie Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin Franklin Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. -- William Shakespeare Time alone is irreplaceable. -- Douglas Freeman To avoid criticism; do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -- Elbert Hubbard To dwell above with saints we love, That will be grace and glory. To live below with saints we know, That is another story! To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. To get something done a committee should consist of three persons, two of whom are absent. To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. -- Samuel Johnson To love the whole world, For me is no chore; The only real problem is, My neighbor next door. To wait is the best way to cope with anger. Today I am younger than I was yesterday, and tomorrow I will be younger than I am now. The reason is that every day I am born anew in Christ and every rebirth is a new beginning, another springtime. -- Meister Eckhart Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. Treasures in heaven are laid up only as treasures on earth are laid down. Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. -- Melanchton True prayer is the living experience of the Holy Trinity. The Spirit's breathing, the Son's intercession, the Father's will, these three become one in us. -- Andrew Murray True repentance is to cease from sinning. -- Ambrose of Milan Trying times are no time to quit trying. Two wrongs do not make a right. -- English Proverb Unless there is within us, that which is above us; we shall soon be consumed by, that which is about us. Urgent things are seldom important. Important things are seldom urgent. We are all faced with great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. -- Truett Cathy We are not punished for our sins, but by them. -- Elbert Hubbard We are saved to serve, not to be served. We ask God to provide for us, and when He does, we congratulate ourselves upon our success. We can expect big trouble when we try to answer our own prayers. We don't live alone. Our actions and deeds affect other people, many of whom we will never know. -- Zig Ziglar We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak. -- Zeno What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. What one generation accepts in moderation, the next will accept in excess. What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever the answer to why there is evil and suffering in the world, this much is true: God took his own medicine. When a person is about to die, you never hear them say "I wish I had spent more time at the office, or more time watching TV." When confronted with a Goliath-sized problem which way do you respond: "He's too big to hit," or like David, "He's too big to miss"? When God buries our sins in the deepest sea, He posts a sign which reads: No Fishing! When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with a difficulty; if He is going to do something very wonderful, He begins with an impossibility! When God shuts and bolts the door, don't try to get in through the window. When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. -- Mark Twain When it seems hardest to pray, we should pray the hardest. When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the one that has opened for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. -- Roger W. Babson When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. -- William Arthur Ward When you have nothing left but God, you begin to learn that God is enough. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. When you think all is lost, remember: the Father is still on his thrown, the Holy Spirit is still in the business of saving souls, and Jesus is coming again. Whenever a man is ready to uncover his sins, God is always ready to cover them. Whoever gossips to you, will be a gossip of you. Whoever prays most, helps most. -- William Goodell Words are plentiful, but deeds are precious. -- Lech Walesa Work and study as though all depended upon you, but pray and trust as though all depended upon God. Worry has been defined as "a small trickle of fear that meanders through the mind until it cuts a channel, into which all other thoughts are drained." Worry is interest paid on trouble before it becomes due. Worry is like a rocking chair; no matter how much you rock, you get nowhere. Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. -- Benjamin Franklin Yard by yard, life is hard. Inch by inch, it's a cinch. You are not finished when you are defeated. You are finished when you give up. You are young only once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You can accomplish more in one hour with God, than in one lifetime without Him. You can tell the sheep are in trouble, when the shepherd starts speaking kindly of the wolf! You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. You cannot build your happiness on someone else's unhappiness. You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart, until it is burning within your own heart. You can't go in the wrong direction, and arrive at the right destination. You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -- Booker T. Washington You do not do God a favor by serving Him. He honors you by allowing you to serve Him. -- Victor Nyquist You do not have to do some wonderful thing to be saved. All you have to do is to accept the wonderful thing Christ has done for you. -- Billy Graham You don't drown by falling into water, you only drown if you stay there. -- Zig Ziglar You may say that drinking is no more of a sin than over-eating. But let me ask you one question, "Would you rather meet a fat driver, or a drunk driver, on the highway late at night?" You may soon forget those with whom you have laughed, but you will never forget those with whom you have wept. You must have long-range goals, to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. -- Charles C. Noble You will know you are close to the heart of God, when what grieves your heart is the same thing that grieves His. Your temper is like a fire. It gets very destructive when it gets out of control. Your words are windows to your heart. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. -- Elbert Hubbard A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -- Confucius A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. A thief believes everybody steals. -- E. W. Howe Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Every exit is an entry somewhere. -- Tom Stoppard Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. -- Michael Pritchard Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. -- Swedish Proverb He who angers you conquers you. -- Elizabeth Kenny I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. -- Leo Rosten If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain. -- Dolly Parton In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. -- Robert Frost It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhi Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up. -- Jesse Jackson No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. -- Ralph W. Sockman One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regain its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendel Holmes People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -- Henry Kaiser Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -- John Powell The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko This above all; to thine own self be true. -- William Shakespeare Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -- Anatole France Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. -- Henry Van Dyke We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. -- English Proverb What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -- Helen Keller You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. -- Doug Floyd You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. -- Harry Firestone You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. -- Henry Drummond Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. -- Alexander Hamilton |