| August 31, 2005 |
Worrying
about something that may never happen
Is like paying interest on money you may never borrow. |
| August 30, 2005 |
Children
learn more from models than from critics.
-Joseph Joubert [Adapted] |
| August 29, 2005 |
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 |
| August 28, 2005 |
The
church is a society of sinners -
In fact, the church is the only organization in the world
In which membership is based upon the single qualification
That the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.
-Charles C. Morrison [Adapted] |
| August 27, 2005 |
Our
greatest glory is not in never falling,
But in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius |
| August 26, 2005 |
Pain
is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
-M. Kathleen Casey |
| August 25, 2005 |
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-Albert Einstein
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| August 24, 2005 |
Do not follow where the path may lead;
Proceed in faith where there is no path,
And leave a trail for others to follow.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson [Adapted]
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| August 23, 2005 |
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
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| August 22, 2005 |
A person is no fool who gives what he cannot keep
To gain what he cannot lose.
-Jim Elliot
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| August 21, 2005 |
Lift up your eyes.
God wants to bless you in inconceivable ways
To make your life what you never dreamed it could be.
-Anne Ortlund [Adapted]
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| August 20, 2005 |
The national anthem of hell is "I Did It My Way."
-Peter Kreeft [Adapted]
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| August 19, 2005 |
If God sends us on stony paths he will provide us with strong shoes,
And will not send us out on any journey for which he does not equip us well.
-Alexander Maclaren
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| August 18, 2005 |
A reined horse is incredibly strong
When it allows itself to be guided by the master.
-Xenophon
|
| August 17, 2005 |
I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be.
I am not what I hope to be.
But still, I am not what I used to be.
And by the grace of God, I am what I am.
-John Newton [Adapted]
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| August 16, 2005 |
Faith is reason grown courageous.
-Sherwood Eddy
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| August 15, 2005 |
We set the sail; God makes the wind.
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| August 14, 2005 |
The
words of human beings are unstable things.
But not so the words of God.
They stand forever,
As abidingly valid expressions of God's mind and thought.
-J.I. Packer [Adapted] |
| August 13, 2005 |
Great
works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
-Samuel Johnson |
| August 12, 2005 |
The world says, The more you take, the more you have.
Christ says, The more you give, the more you are.
-Frederick Buechner
|
| August 11, 2005 |
The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich
|
| August 10, 2005 |
We take excellent care of our bodies, which we have for only a lifetime;
Yet we let our souls shrivel, which we have for eternity.
-Billy Graham
|
| August 9, 2005 |
You can tell the size of your God
By looking at the length of your worry list.
The longer your list, the smaller your God.
|
| August 8, 2005 |
Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done
or putting a false label on an evil act.
It means, rather,
That the evil act no longer remains a barrier to the relationship.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
| August 7, 2005 |
The
Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
-John Wesley |
| August 6, 2005 |
Your arms are too short to box
with God.
-James Weldon Johnson [Adapted]
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| August 5, 2005 |
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
-Corrie ten Boom
|
| August 4, 2005 |
No one can help everyone,
But everyone can help someone.
|
| August 3, 2005 |
He who marries the spirit of
the age will soon find himself a widower.
-William Inge
|
| August 2, 2005 |
How unfortunate it is that
human beings can't exchange problems.
Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other person's.
-Olin Miller [Adapted]
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| August 1, 2005 |
II believe in the sun
even if it isn't shining.
I believe in love even when I am alone.
I believe in God even when he is silent.
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