| January 1 |
What the New Year brings to you
Will depend upon what you bring to the New Year.
-Vern McLellan |
| January 2 |
If we teach someone, we affect eternity;
We can never tell where our influence will stop.
-Henry Brooks Adams [adapted] |
| January 3 |
Weave in faith,
And God will provide the thread. |
| January 4 |
Never spend so much time looking for what isn't there
That you fail to see what is. |
| January 5 |
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him
Than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness"
On the walls of his cell.
-C.S. Lewis |
| January 6 |
If it seems like you're going through hell,
Keep going.
--Winston Churchill [adapted] |
| January 7 |
Never fight with God over who is in control. |
| January 8 |
When we look back on the faithfulness of God, we praise him.
When we look forward to God's faithfulness, we trust him.
-Ken Watters |
| January 9 |
Those who have never rebelled against God
Or at some point of their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven,
Have likely never encountered God at all.
-Catherine Marshall [adapted] |
| January 10 |
When Daniel Webster was asked,
"What is the greatest thought that can occupy a person's mind?"
He replied, "Accountability to God." |
| January 11 |
Faith and worry never mix. |
| January 12 |
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
-Leo Tolstoy |
| January 13 |
It is no more possible for us to remove our physical DNA connection with our parents than it is to remove our spiritual DNA with our Creator.
-Kathleen Parker [adapted] |
| January 14 |
Never waste an opportunity to tell others that you love them. |
| January 15 |
I had a million questions to ask God;
But when I met Him they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
-Christopher Morley |
| January 16 |
Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?"
Expediency asks the question, "Is it political?"
But conscience asks the question, "Is it right?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr. [adapted] |
| January 17 |
The wonderful thing about encouragement
Is that anyone can offer it. |
| January 18 |
I would rather walk with God in the dark
Than go alone in the light.
-Mary Gardiner Brainard |
| January 19 |
If you're determined to stay in control,
You're out of control. |
| January 20 |
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
-Dwight L. Moody |
| January 21 |
In raising children or grandchildren,
Spend on them half as much money
And twice as much time. |
| January 22 |
Be God or let God. |
| January 23 |
God's mercies are new every morning. |
| January 24 |
Suffering colors life,
But we can choose the color. |
| January 25 |
Take care of the soul.
Your faith will help you buffer many a crisis. |
| January 26 |
... ask yourself not if this or that is expedient,
But if it is right.
-Alan Paton |
| January 27 |
Don't put a small value on yourself
When God has paid the ultimate price for you. |
| January 28 |
We could never learn to be brave or patient
If there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller |
| January 29 |
We do not belong to the church because we are perfect,
But because we are loved.
-R. Maurice Boyd |
| January 30 |
Every day has two
handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
Or the handle of faith.
-Henry Ward Beecher [adapted] |
| January 31 |
Don't allow the
tyranny of the urgent
To blind you to the value of the important.
-Charles Swindoll |
