| He who runs from God in the morning will
scarcely find Him the rest of the day. JOHN
BUNYAN A lot of people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity. UNKNOWN Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings. PHILLIPS
BROOKS To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian – to help them is. FRED
CLARK He preaches well who lives well. That‘s all the divinity I know. MIGUEL DE
CERVANTES To forsake Christ for the world is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow, all things for nothing. WILLIAM
JENKYN Let nothing come between you and God; let God come between you and everything. UNKNOWN Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him. JOHN
ORTBERG Preach the gospel everyday; if necessary, use words. FRANCIS OF
ASSISI If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer. Intercession is a way of loving others. RICHARD
FOSTER What‘s true of biology is also true of faith: If it isn‘t growing, it‘s probably dead. UNKNOWN Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. FRANCIS OF
ASSISI I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God‘s hands, that I still possess. MARTIN
LUTHER | There is not enough darkness in all the world
to put out the light of even one small candle. ROBERT
ALDEN There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most – happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else. UNKNOWN To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. UNKNOWN When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that‘s going to matter is ―what was the quality of our love? RICHARD
BACH We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, ―I was wrong, I‘m sorry.‖ And we also need to say, ―That‘s all right, I love you. BILLY GRAHAM The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick along side it. D. L.
MOODY Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! JOSEPH
CAMPBELL You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world‘s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. DALE
CARNEGIE Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. DAVID
GRAYSON God made you as you are in order to use you as He planned. S. C.
MCAULEY A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. DOUG
LARSON | Truth may walk through the world unarmed. BEDOUIN The Talmud says that whosoever saves one life, it is counted as if he saved the entire world. Someone out there needs you. I don‘t know how or when. AVRUM BLUMING Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed. MIKE
MURDOCK One kind word can warm three winter months. JAPANESE
PROVERB Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. KHALIL
GIBRAN In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. MAX DE
PREE Some people confess a sin a thousand times, I tell them to confess it once, then thank God a thousand times for forgiving them. MAURICE
HORN Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. ANDRE
MALRAUX God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way. LEIGHTON
FORD 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 There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. MAHATMA
GHANDI If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. CHINESE
PROVERB Don‘t forget, a person‘s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. UNKNOWN A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another‘s. JEAN PAUL RICHTER Beware of the barrenness of a busy life. SOCRATES |
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