“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie ten Boom
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“If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look “little” or “big.”
Elisabeth Elliot
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“Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
Margaret Stunt
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“When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”
-Alexander Graham Bell
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“It is possible to be happy withough having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn’t come from my joints, but from my heart.”
-Beverly LaHaye
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out – as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord’s care.”
-Teresa of Avila, Majestic is Your Name
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Opportunity
Each day is a brand new opportunity to be Jesus to the world.
– R. Falcon Better Tomorrows
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DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE SPECIAL?
Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it.”
-David Jeremiah
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Re: People Embracing Material Things
“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I’m sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
-Morrie (from Tuesdays with Morrie)
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Choices
What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
-Edith Schaeffer
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Surrender
All to Jesus, I surrender
All to Him I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
In His presence daily live.
-Judson W. Van DeVenter
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Love
“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”
-John Harrison
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Until We Meet Again
Though this life may be gone in a week or today, you will forever be alive in the hearts of those who love you & will live forever in heaven until we see each other again in the presence of our Holy God and Savior Jesus.
– Kodee Williams
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Your Face
“If you live close to God
And His infinite grace,
You don’t have to tell;
It shows on your face.”
-anonymous
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Consequences
Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.
-Jenny Sanford
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Nonsense
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
-Willy Wonka
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Humor
Humor is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles.
-Stan Toler
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One Moment at a Time
Live one moment at a time and that moment for God. Don’t think of a holy life for that will drown you by its’ immensity, but remember that a holy life is a series of holy moments.
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Relying on God
Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.
-C.S.Lewis
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Potential
Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence–is the key to unlocking our potential.
-Winston Churchill
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Enjoy
God will one day hold us each accountable for all the things He created for us to enjoy, but we refused to do so.
-Rabbanic Saying
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Attitude
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
-J. Sidlow Baxter
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Faith
Though I see not nor feel not, still by faith if I but reach out in faith there is the Spirit to guide me along my way, Amen
~ George F Woolley (UK)
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln or Rev. William J. H. Boetcker.
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PEACE of MIND
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
– Elisabeth Elliot
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LIFE
Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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LONELINESS
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
-Hubert van Zeller
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FRETTING
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
-Oswald Chambers
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GRATITUDE
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.? This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.?
-John Henry Jowett
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HEART
The best and most beautiful things in this world
cannot be seen or even heard,
but must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
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YOUR WORDS
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
-George Crane
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WHAT YOU BELIEVE
You can live opposite of what you profess,
but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.?
– Dallas Willard
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KINDNESS
Kind words can be short
and easy to speak,
but their echoes
are truly endless.
– Mother Teresa
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FAILURE
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
– John Ortberg
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KNOWN AND UNKNOWN
There are things known, and there are things unknown.
And in between are the doors.
– Jim Morrison
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CHARACTER MATTERS
What afflicts us is a corruption of the heart, a turning away in the soul. Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned toward the wrong things. And only when we turn them toward the right things–toward enduring, noble, spiritual things–will things get better.
– John Buchanan
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BE ALL THERE
Wherever you are, be all there.
– Jim Elliot
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COURAGE
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying,”I will try again tomorrow.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
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LEGACY
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
– Pericles
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FUTURE
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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RESPECT
That you may retain your self-respect,
it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
– William J. H. Boetcker
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LIFE QUOTES BY DR. HENRY BRANDT
“The heart of the problem is a problem with the heart.?
“You’re just a prayer away from a change of heart.”
“Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.”
“My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.”
“You can manage your sin, but that’s not repentance.”
“If it’s sin, that’s good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.”
“There’s no human remedy for sin.”
“Jesus wants to give you peace.”
“You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.”
“Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.”
“You don”t have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.”
“I am a victim of my own behavior.”
“God’s children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.”
“Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.”
“Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.”
“What your soul needs is a check up.”
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MERCY
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
– Abraham Lincoln
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LIFE
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
– Hellen Keller
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OPPORTUNITIES
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
– Sally Koch
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TIME
We do not remember days,
we remember moments.
– Cesare Pavese
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Speak Up
“Our lives begin to end
the day we become silent
about things that matter.”
– Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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Be Kind
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
– Author unknown
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Humility
Humility is perfect quietness of heart, It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
– Andrew Murray
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CURIOSITY
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
– Albert Einstein
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ANTICIPATION
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
– Benjamin Franklin
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SWEET SLEEP
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake.
– Victor Hugo
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A CHRISTIAN
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
– Vance Havner
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LOSS
Gerald Sittser wrote that loss was “like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.”
– Geral Sittser
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DEFEATING SATAN
When Satan reminds us of our past, we should remind him of his future.
– Author Unknown
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CHARACTER
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To Be Free
To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.
– Jean Vanier
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Beauty
Never lose an opportunity for seeing anything that is beautiful; For beauty is God’s handwriting–a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, And thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the Beginning
A journey may be long or short,
but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Work
He who loves his work never labors.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gifts of Friends
It is a wealthy person, indeed,
who calculates riches not in gold
but in friends.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Family
Some people are born into wonderful families.
Others have to find or create them.
Being a member of a family is a priceless membership
that we pay nothing for but love.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Dreams
Faith is all that dreamers need
to see into the future.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Gratitude
In those times we yearn to have more in our lives,
we should dwell on the things we already have.
In doing so, we will often find that our lives
are already full to overflowing.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Learning
Education is a lifelong journey
whose destination expands as you travel.
– Jim Stovall
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A Voice from the Past
In the end,
a person is only known
by the impact they have on others.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Money
Money is nothing more than a tool.
It can be a force for good, a force for evil,
or simply idle.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Problems
Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment.
Good judgment may only be gained
by experiencing life’s problems.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Laughter
Laughter is good medicine for the soul.
Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of Giving
The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself
is to give part of yourself away.
– Jim Stovall
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The Gift of a Day
Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time.
Today is the day!
– Jim Stovall
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The Ultimate Gift
In the end, life lived to its fullest
is its own Ultimate Gift
– Jim Stovall
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SILENT LOVE
“Look into the depths of another’s soul and listen,
not only with our ears,
but with our hearts and imagination,
and our silent love.”
– Joyce Kanelakos
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COURAGE
Keep your fears to yourself,
but share your courage with others.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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DESIRE
One can never consent to creep
when one feels an impulse to soar.
– Helen Keller
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LIFE
Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.
– anonymous
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LIFE
Life is like riding a bicycle.
You don’t fall off
unless you stop peddling.
– Claude D. Pepper
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Quotes To Live By
Cherish things while you still have them,
before they’re gone,
and you realize how precious they really are.
Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards.
Everything in life is temporary.
So if things are going good,
enjoy it because it won’t last forever.
And if things are going bad,
don’t worry because it won’t last forever either.
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved.
A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.
Never cross a bridge
without knowing how to swim the tides.
If you could not add years to your life
Add life to your years.
– author unknown
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THANKFULNESS
It isn’t what you have in your pocket
that makes you thankful,
but what you have in your heart.
– Unknown
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KINDNESS
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,
making everything in its vicinity
freshen into smiles.
– Washington Irving
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REPUTATION
Glass, china, and reputation
are easily cracked,
and never mended well.
– Benjamin Franklin
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LAUGHTER
Laughter is the sun
that drives winter
from the human face.
– Victor Hugo
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JOY
Occasionally in life
there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment
which cannot be completely explained
by those symbols called words.
Their meanings can only be articulated
by the inaudible language of the heart.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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GIVE THE FOLLOWING GIFTS:
To your enemy . . .forgiveness,
To your opponent . . .tolerance.
To a friend . . . your heart.
To a customer . . . service.
To all men . . .charity.
To every child . . . a good example
To yourself . . .respect
-Author unknown
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FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness doesn’t change history;
it makes living with it easier.
-Author Unknown
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LIFE
Live an honorable life. Then when you get older
and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
-Author Unknown
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NEW DAY
Each new day is a new beginning-
to learn more about ourselves
to care more about others,
to laugh more than we did,
to accomplish more than we thought we could,
and be more than we were before.
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BEAUTY
Some people,
No matter how old they get,
Never lose their beauty ?
They merely move it from their
Faces into their heart.
– Martin Buxbaum
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HABITS
It is easier to prevent bad habits
than to break them.
– Benjamin Franklin
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The last, if not the greatest,
of the human freedoms:
to choose their own attitude
in any given circumstance.
– Bruno Bettelheim
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HUMILITY
Humility is perfect quietness of heart,”
Andrew Murray once wrote.
“It is to expect nothing,
to wonder at nothing that is done to me,
to feel nothing done against me.
It is to be at rest when nobody praises me,
and when I am blamed or despised.
It is to have a blessed home in the Lord,
where I can go in and shut the door,
and kneel to my Father in secret,
and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness,
when all around and above is trouble.”
– Andrew Murray
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Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
– Paul Boese
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To know what people really think,
pay regard to what they do,
rather than what they say.
– Rene Descartes
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It is easier to go down a hill than up,
but the view is from the top.
– Arnold Bennett
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I have always found
that mercy bears richer fruits
than strict justice.
– Abraham Lincoln
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A flower has to go through a lot of dirt
before it can bloom.
– Author unknown
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INSIGHT
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Persian Proverb
He who knows not,
And knows not that he knows not,
Is a fool, shun him.
He who knows not,
And knows that he knows not,
Is a child, teach him.
He who knows,
And knows not that he knows,
Is asleep, wake him.
He who knows,
And knows that he knows,
Is wise, follow him.
– author unknown
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JOURNEYS
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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COURAGE
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
– Williard Marriott
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CLARITY
In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.
– Mother Teresa
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THE DOER
It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
– Vince Lombardi
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IMAGINATION
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is what we could be.
– Albert Einstein
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OBSTACLES
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
– Henry Ford
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MOTIVATION
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
– Norman R. Augustine
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BEAUTY
Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you and be happy.
– Anne Frank
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ADVICE
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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LOVE
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
– William Shakespeare
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GREATNESS
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
– Phillip Brooks
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GRATITUDE
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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CHANGE
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
– Anne Frank
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HAPPINESS
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
– Martha Washington
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PERSEVERANCE
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
– John Quincy Adams
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TRUTH
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up
and continue on .”
-Winston Churchill
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CHOICES
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
– J. K. Rowling
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PATIENCE
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– Saint Augustine
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TIME
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
– John Burroughs
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HAPPINESS
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
– Samuel Johnson
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Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can?t learn to forgive, You can forget about achieving true success in your life.
– Dr. Dyer
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If I can stop one heart
From breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
-Emily Dickinson
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Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
– Paul Boese
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A kind heart
Is a fountain of gladness
Making everything
freshen into smiles.
– Washington Irving
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A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
– unknown
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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions.
– Margaret Thatcher
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
– Victor Hugo
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
– Erma Bombeck
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The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
– Helen Keller
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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
– H.T. Leslie
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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on you.
– L. Thomas Holdcroft
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self.
– Aristotle
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The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today, but we can improve if we make use of the potential implanted in us by God.
– Rabbi Samuel M. Silver
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You’ve got to continue to grow, or you’re just like last night’s cornbread — stale and dry.
– Loretta Lynn
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We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
– John Maxwell
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If you play it safe in life, you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore.
– Shirley Hufstedler
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
– Helen Keller
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
– Barbara Johnson,
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I believe that life is given us so we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
– Helen Adams Keller
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The toys and blocks with which we play Are houses, lands and gold. Their values quickly pass away, As does a tale that’s told. But kindly, gracious deeds abide, Their wealth will not depart; Their flowers of joy are multiplied In gardens of the heart.
– Charles Russell Wakeley
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
– William Ellery Channing
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
– Thomas A. Kempis
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What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
– Louis Nizer
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The day is done, The sun has set, Yet light still tints the sky; My heart stands still In reverence, For God is passing by.
– Ruth Alla Wager
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
– Charles P. Steinmetz
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon–instead of en- joying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
– Dale Carnegie
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.
– A. J. Crown
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Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God.
There is enough time in every day to do God’s work… in God’s way.
– Dr. Ted W. Engstrom
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Dedication is doing the “BEST” with your life rather than settling for what is only the “good.”
Jesus came to pay a debt he didnt owe,
He came to pay our debts we couldnt pay.
God is looking for ordinary people empowered by Him to do extraordinary things!