An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.
He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as full as if there were no others. - A.W. Tozer "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."~ Ella Fitzgerald ~
"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." ~ David Viscott ~ "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ "Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."~ Will Durant "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." ~John Updike~ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."~Mark Twain~ "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."~William Jennings Bryan~ "My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."~Helen Hayes~ "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." ~Napoleon Hill~ "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it." ~William James~ "If you want to make life easy, make it hard. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~ God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are. Billy Graham Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. Francis Schaeffer People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. Zig Ziglar Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centred that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run! Kay Arthur Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. A smile confuses an approaching frown.~Author Unknown People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.~Lee Mildon A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.~Phyllis Diller Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends?Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997 The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.~Author Unknown Start every day with a smile and get it over with.~W.C. Fields Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.~Charles Gordy Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.~Mark Twain, Following the Equator The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.~William Shakespeare, Othello A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.~Andy Rooney If you smile at someone, they might smile back.~Author Unknown Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it ~Author Unknown Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown Everyone smiles in the same language.~Author Unknown If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.~Author Unknown I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.~Author Unknown Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot Smiling is infectious,You can catch it like the flu.Someone smiled at me today, And I started smiling too. ~Author Unknown A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth.~Author Unknown The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown Smiling is my favorite exercise.~Author Unknown Wear a smile - one size fits all.~Author Unknown No matter how grouchy you're feeling,You'll find the smile more or less healing.It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth -Thus preserving the face from congealing.~Anthony Euwer Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.~Author Unknown Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.~Author Unknown A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.~Charles Reade A smile is the universal welcome.~Max Eastman Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Author Unknown You're never fully dressed without a smile.~Martin Charnin A smile can brighten the darkest day.~Author Unknown It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown Smile - it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown Peace begins with a smile.~Mother Teresa A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown Most smiles are started by another smile.~Author Unknown A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you.~Author Unknown A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? And in the end, its not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves. Author: Rick Warren
Four of the Ten Commandments deal with our relationship to God while the other six deal with our relationships with people. But all ten are about relationships. Author: Rick Warren When life on earth is ending, people don't surround themselves with objects. What we want around us is people - people we love and have relationships with. Author: Rick Warren Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up. Author: Jerry Falwell Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship. Author: David Jeremiah Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God. Author: David Jeremiah First John 3:16 shows that true love is climaxed by our being willing to lay down our lives for fellow believers. Author: Theodore Epp If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. Author: Frederick Buechner If you forget me, one of the ways I remember who I am will be gone. If you forget me, part of who I am will be gone. Author: Frederick Buechner Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. Author: Frederick Buechner Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?" - Burton Hillis
"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves."~ Tyron Edwards
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."~ Edmund Burke "Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master."~ Ben Johnson "What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation."~ Erica Jong A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her. Ps. Jaco Venter
By praying you speak to God, by reading God speaks to you Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees. - Corrie ten Boom 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 I have made you a light ... that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth - Acts 13:47 In essentials, UNITY; in non-essentials, LIBERTY; in all things LOVE In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart - John Bunyan It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing and sharing with others that is important. - Mother Teresa Jesus Christ built a bridge to Heaven for us using only Two beams and three nails Keep your face to the SONshine and you cannot see the shadow No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
Of all the mysteries of the prayer world, the need of persevering prayer is one of the greatest - Andrew Murray Our Heavenly Father is longing to do good things for us. If we aren't experiencing His goodness, it is because we really don't believe it. - M. Basilea Schlink Prayer enables me to surrender to God - but prayerlessness results in surrender to the enemy. - Benny Hinn Prayer is loving and not thinking. - Thomas Green Prayer is not a mere form of words. It is not just calling upon a Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. - Mohandas Gandhi "Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night" - Charles H. Spurgeon Remember to forget the troubles that passed away, but don't forget to remember the blessings that come each day - Anonymous |
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