QUOTES on LIFE
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
~ C.S Lewis
“ I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
~ C.S. Lewis
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small task as if they were great and noble.”
~ Helen Keller
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: To choose one’s attitude im any given circumstances.”
~ Victor Frankl, (Concentration Camp Survivor)
“Removing all risks from your life renders faith unnecessary. Faith requires unnecessary.”
~ author unknown
“Remember true character is revealed by what is on the inside.
~ author unknown
“Character is not a commodity that can be purchased. It is built by the decisions you permantly chisel on your heart. Strive for a reputation that will cause people to say, ‘He means what he says.’ “
~ Neil Eskelin
“One person with CONVICTION is worth more than one hudred with only an interest.”
~ Zig Ziglar
“A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.”
~ author unknown
“Too many people grumble because they don’t get what they want when they should actually thank God that they are not getting what they deserve. “
~ author unknown
“True contentment is measured not by how much we have, but rather by how much we enjoy what we have.”
~ author unknown
“No one raises his own reputation by lowering others.”
~ author unknown
“Continual effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.”
~ Winston Churchill
“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.”
~ Zig Ziglar
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred; it is the power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Character: “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
~ Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Forgiveness: “Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it.”
~ David Jeremiah
In a world full of people who couldn’t care less, be someone who cares more.
~Author Unknown
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
~ Maya Angelou
Don’t let those who take advantage of your generosity stop you from being generous.
~Author Unknown
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
~Edmund Burke
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
~John Wooden
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
~Epictetus
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
~Frank A. Clark
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
~Winston Churchill
You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
~John Wooden
Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, tolerant of the weak, because someday in your life you will be all of these.
~George Washington Carver
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~Abraham Heschel
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boyle
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are nice but because you are.
~unknown
Never look down on anyone unless you are helping them up.
~Jesse Jackson
Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
~Henry James
Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~Mark Twain
PEACE: “The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.”
~Tim Keller
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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
CHOICES WE MAKE: “What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Choose 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 one single person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
~Edith Schaffer
Teach me Lord! “Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that You will govern all. Amen
~Elisabeth Elliot
DEEP LONGING IN YOUR SOUL: God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.”
~Robert Collyer
Glimpses of Heaven: I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.
~Randy Alcorn
In Heaven, to look into God’s eyes will be to see what we’ve always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.
~ Randy Alcorn
Ease Off : “If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it’s high time we give each other a break.”
~Charles R. Swindoll
“Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people’s unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?”
~Charles R. Swindoll
WAIT: When I cannot understand my Father’s leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful—Only wait.
~A.B. Simpson
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
~Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)
If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
~Winston Churchill, (1874 – 1965)
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…we must do that which we think we cannot.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, (1884-1962)
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.”
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
~Helen Keller, (1880-1968)
QUOTES BY DR. HENRY BRANDT
“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.”
Mercy: “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
~Abraham Lincoln
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
Opportunities: “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”
~Sally Koch
Time: “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
~Cesare Pavese
Speak Up: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
~Martin Luther King
Be Kind: “Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”
~Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish Philosopher
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
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
“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
Loss: “Loss is 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.”
~Gerald Sittser
Defeating Satan: “When Satan reminds us of our past, we should remind him of his future.”
~Unknown
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Opportunity: “Each day is a brand new opportunity to be Jesus to the world.”
~ R. Falcon (Better Tomorrows)
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.
JIM STOVAL QUOTES:
“A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.”
The Gift of Work: “He who loves his work never labors.”
The Gift of Dreams: “Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.”
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.”
The Gift of Learning: “Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.”
A Voice from the Past: In the end, a person is only known by the impact they have on others.”
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.”
The Gift of Problems: “Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life’s problems.”
The Gift of Laughter: “Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.”
The Gift of Giving: “The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.”
The Gift of a Day: “Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!”
Desire: “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
~ Helen Keller
“Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.”
~ Anonymous
“Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop peddling.”
~ Claude D. Pepper
Thankfulness: “It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.”
~ Unknown
Kindness: “A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
~ Washington Irving
Laughter: “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
~ Victor Hugo
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”
– Unknown
Forgiveness: “Forgiveness doesn’t change history; it makes living with it easier.”
~ Unknown
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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
“Live an honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.”
~ Unknown
“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.”
~ Unknown
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
Habits: “It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
“The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.”
~Bruno Bettelheim
Humility:
“Humility is perfect quietness of heart.
I 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
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
~ Paul Boese
“To know what people really think,pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”
~ Rene Descartes
“It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.”
~Arnold Bennett
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
Insight: “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
Journeys: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage: “Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.”
~ Williard Marriott
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“Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.”
~ C.S.Lewis
Clarity: “In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.”
~ Mother Teresa
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
Imagination: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is what we could be.”
~ Albert Einstein
Motivation: “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
~ Norman R. Augustine
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
Love: “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
~ William Shakespeare
Greatness: “Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.”
~ Phillip Brooks
Gratitude: “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Change: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
~ Anne Frank
Perseverance: “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
~ John Quincy Adams
Truth: “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”
~ Winston Churchill
Patience: Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
~ Saint Augustine
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
Happiness: “Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
~ Samuel Johnson
“If I can stop one heart From breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
~ Emily Dickinson
“A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”
~ Unknown
“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions.”
~ Margaret Thatcher
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
~ Erma Bombeck
“The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.”
~ Helen Keller
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self.”
~ Aristotle
“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
“We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.”
~ John Maxwell
“If you play it safe in life, you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore.”
~ Shirley Hufstedler
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
~ Barbara Johnson
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Kindness: “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
~ Mother Teresa
“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
~ Louis Nizer
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.”
~ A. J. Crown
“Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God.”
~ Unknown
“Dedication is doing the ‘BEST’ with your life rather than settling for what is only the ‘good’.”
~ Unknown
“God is looking for ordinary people empowered by Him to do extraordinary things!”
~ Unknown
The Gift of Friends: “It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.”
~ Jim Stovall
HOLINESS: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull… When one meets the real thing, it’s irresistible!”
~ C.S. Lewis
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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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.”
~ Corrie Ten Boom
“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
“Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
~ Margaret Stunt
“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
“It is possible to be happy without having perfect health… Thank goodness my happiness doesn’t come from my joints, but from my heart.”
~ Beverly LaHaye
“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
“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)
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 (Tuesdays with Morrie)
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
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 and will live forever in heaven until we see each other again in the presence of our Holy God and Savior Jesus.”
~ Kodee Williams
Your Face
“If you live close to God
and His infinite grace,
you don’t have to tell;
it shows on your face.”
– Anonymous
Consequences: “Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.”
~ Jenny Sanford
Humor: “Humor is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles.”
~ Stan Toler
Potential: “Continuous effort — not strength nor intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
~ Winston Churchill
“God will one day hold us each accountable for all the things He created for us to enjoy, but we refused to do.”
~ Rabbanic Saying
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
“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
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
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
Fretting: “Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.”
~ Oswald Chambers
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
The 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
Your Words: “Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.”
~ George Crane
What You Believe: “You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.”
~ Dallas Willard
The 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
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
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
“Wherever you are, be all there.”
~ Jim Elliot
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
Legacy: “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
~ Pericles