Quotes To Stimulate Your Thoughts
1. God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
David Nicholas
2. God often gives in one brief moment that which he has for a long time denied.
Thomas Kempis
3. There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
William Law
4. The self-sufficient do not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
Leonard Ravenhill
5. Each of us has a capacity for God and an ability to relate to him in a personal way. When we do, he brings to us pardon for the past, peace for the present, and a promise for the future.
Ralph Bell
6. The Almighty does nothing with out reason, though the frail mind of man cannot explain the reason.
Augustine of Hippo
7. God often gives in one brief moment that which he has for a long time denied.
Thomas Kempis
8. "A man's best collateral is his character.
Financier J. P. Morgan
9. "Reputation is what folks think you are. Personality is what you seem to be. Character is what you really are."
Alfred Armand Montapert House
10. "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow, only one thing endures - character."
Horace Greely
11. "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble."
Charles Spurgeon
12. To give plesure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Saadi
13. I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Henry Drummond
14. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
La Rochefoucauld
15. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
16. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
17. The view we entertain of God will determine our view of the world.
Christoph Luthardt
18. You and I have a terrible time letting go. We ask God to help us with a problem, but we keep worrying about it. We carry our burdens to the foot of the cross, lay them down, then hook a toe on them and drag them with us when we leave! Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." He didn't mean, "Come tell me your problems, but go fix them yourself." He meant, "come tell me your problems, and then forget about them. They're my problems now."
Bonnie Ricks
19. In this world of ours, that which matters most is not what happens to the outside of things, but what happens to the inside of people.
Walter Bowie
20. God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
21. God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.
W. T. Purkiser
22. We should be thankful for our tears; they prepare our eyes for a clearer vision of God.
William Ward
23. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.
J. Hudson Taylor
24. It is not the will of God to give us more troubles than will bring us to live by faith in him.
William Romaine
25. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving soul on another.
George Eliot
26. God made you as you are in order to use you as He planned.
S. C. Mcauley
27. There is comfort in the fact that God can never be taken by surprise.
Gabelein
28. When God delivered Israel out of Egypt, he didn't send an army. We would have sent an army or an orator! But God sent a man who had been in the desert forty years, and had an impediment in his speech. It is weakness that God wants! Nothing is small when God handles it.
Dwight Moody
29. For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather.
George Gissing
30. What the work of Christ requires is not our admiration or even gratitude, not our impressions or our thrills, but ourselves and our shame.
P. T. Forsyth
31. Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
Unknown
32. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
33. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveess heals.
Willa Cather
34. I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
35. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson
36. Think wrongly, it you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
37. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jensen>
38. Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Boom
39. People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elizabeth Kuler-Ross
40. The art of being happy ies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
41. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
42. Do what you can do and pray for what you cannot yet do.
St. Augustine
43. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt
44. Love is not a matter of counting the years, it's making the years count.
William Smith
45. My happiness is not to remake myself, but make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
46. I don't know the key to success, but, the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
47. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
48. Assuredly nobody will care for him who cares for nobody.
Thomas Jefferson
49. Nobody can make you feel interior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
50. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
51. There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
Alan Redpath
52. I 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
53. No sorrow touches man until it has been filtered through the heart of God.
Joseph Blinco
54. There are comforts and compensations that one who has not suffered knows nothing of- like the lamps that nobody sees till the tunnel comes.
R. W. Barbour
55. It is impossible to have the feeling of peace and serenity without being at rest with God.
Dorothy Pentecost
56. When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.
Dwight Moody
57. The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted.
J. R. Miller
58. When we allow God to work through us, then it becomes easy...because He's doing all the work.
Bonnie Ricks
59. Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
60. The stream of time sweeps away errors and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes
61. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward Beecher
62. A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever.
J. E. Smith
63. He became what we are that he might make us what he is.
Athanasius
64. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and have patience for the small ones...Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
65. How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent, and God will speak again.
Francois Fenelon
66. This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
Helen Keller
67. Take that gift God has entrusted to you; and use it in the service of Christ and your fellow men. He will make it glow and shine like the very stars of heaven.
John Bonnell
68. Don't try to deal with sin, for you are sure to lose. Deal with Christ; let him deal with your sin and you are sure to win.
Arthur Elfstrand
69. Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
70. A real friend feels no need to excuse himself for some failing.
The Laubliner Rabbi
71. True friends . . . face in the same direction toward common projects, interests, and goals.
C. S. Lewis
72. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquantances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
73. Most of the methods that Satan uses to confuse and tempt can be very beautiful and very alert. He seems to be not the enemy of God, but the uplifter and edifier of man.
Unknown
74. God hurts when we hurt. When you ache with your brokenhearted friend, you emulate the heart of God.
Dave Biebel
75. Serenity comes not alone by removing the outward causes and occasions of fear, but by the discovery of inward reservoirs to draw upon.
Rufus Jones
76. One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one.
Aristotle
77. The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying.
Samuel Chadwick
78. A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.
John Lubbock
79. A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
William Mokepeace Thackeray
80. Friendship has splendors that love knows not.
Mariama Ba
81. The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. Forbes
82. Faith in God...life can never take you by surprise again.
Dr. James Dobson
83. Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
Otto von Bismarck
84. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
85. Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
86. Separate what counts from what doesn't.
R. R. Ball
87. The world's greatest need is not more Christians but more Christians who practice their Christianity.
Unknown
88. "Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game."
Harvey Mackay
89. The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
David Storey
90. Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new plans, new thoughts... and whether one is twenty, forty, sixty, or eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along - life begins each morning!"
L. M. Hodges
91. Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
92. "Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts."
Anne of Green Gables
93. "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
Alan Cohen
94. The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs, but to invite him to rule our lives.
Clarence Bauman
95. The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
David Storey
96. "Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new plans, new thoughts... and whether one is twenty, forty, sixty, or eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along - life begins each morning!"
L. M. Hodges
97. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Herman Cain
98. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
St. Francis de Sales
99. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
100. "At this very moment, there are people only you can reach... and differences only you can make."
Michael Dooley
101. Suspense, that toothache of the mind.
Francis E. Smedley
102. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
103. Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
104. Love builds memories that endure, to be treasured up as hints of what shall be hereafter.
B. Jarret
105. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
C. Dickens
106. You are bigger than the things that annoy you.
Jerry Bundsen
107. Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the Elder
108. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Charles Lamb
109. No amount of good deeds can make us good persons: we must be good before we can do good.
Chester Pennington
110. Don't worry about opposition. Remember a kite rises against the wind, not with the wind.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
111. There are three principal postures of love. It gives with joy, receives with appreciation and rebukes with humility and hope.
Albert M. Wells Jr.
112. I would rather walk in the dark with God than go alone in the light.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
113. I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we meet them that constitutes our comfort.
Elizabeth King
114. Love decreases when it ceases to increase.
Vicomte Chateaubraind
115. The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race.
John Ruskin
116. Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso
117. The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
118. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
119. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
120. While faith makes all things possible it is love that makes all things easy.
Hopkins
121. What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
122. Loving relationships are a family's best protection against the challenges of the world.
B. Webe
123. Love cures people both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
C. Meninger
124. It is not only what you do, but also what you don't do, for which you are accountable.
Unknown
125. If you think you can, you can. And if you thin you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
126. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
127. If I were you I would not worry. Just make up your mind to do better when you get another chance, and be content with that.
Beatrice Harraden
128. Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
129. He who receive a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Pierre Charron
130. God gave you the gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
William A. Ward
131. The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love.
Ed Habib
132. Always remember to forget the things that made you sad. But never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
Elbert Hubbard
133. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
134. Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings by counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock
135. I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
D. Elliot
136. A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
E. Rostand
137. Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is a matter of being the right person.
Rabbi Brickner
138. I have learned that to have a good friend is the best of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer
139. Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
Erich Fromm
140. Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
141. Each one of us has a choice. We can choose to accept the things we can't change and learn to act on the things we can change.
Joan Webb
142. We gain self-respect when we decide to stop blaming other for out dilemmas and start taking responsibility for our own choices.
Joan Webb
143. How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
George Elliston
144. Our voluntary thoughts not only reveal what we are, they predict what we will become.
A. W. Tozer
145. Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive.
Jean Paul Richter
146. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended; what's amiss i'll strive to mend. And endure what can't be mended.
Isaac Watts
147. Always tell the truth. Then you don't have to worry about what you said last.
Robert A. Cook
148. Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
Thoreau
149. Impatient people are like catspetted backwards--apt to yowl over the discomfort of things not done right or not done at all.
Jeanne Zornes
150. Repentance is the laundry day of the spirit. It is a time of sorting, deep cleaning, followed by rest and preperation to be used again.
Neva Coyle
151. Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.
Joan Lunden
152. Success comes in a can..."I can!"
Wally Amos
153. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
154. I think it's very important to be positive about everything in your life that's negative. You can turn a twist on it.
Barbra Streisand
155. What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
156. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton, Jr.
157. We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by
standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff
158. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
159. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
Teddy Roosevelt
160. God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
161. Until you know that life is interesting--and find it so--you haven't
found your soul.
Geoffrey Fischer
162. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William Jones
163. It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope,
through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.
Elton John
164. "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to
pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the
inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Frank Herbert
165. The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
166. The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general, abstract truths, but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.
J. L. Hromadka
167. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
168. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
George Macdonald
169. Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.
Jeremy Taylor
170. You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
Thomas à Kempis
171. God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, in our minds -- "In Him we live, and move, and have our being". He is somewhere in the recesses of our soul, in the springs of our existence, a light in that mysterious region of our nature where the wishes, feelings, thoughts, and emotions take their earliest rise. The mind is a sanctuary, in the center of which the Lord sits enthroned, the lamp of consciousness burning before Him.
Adolph Saphir
172. Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there
David Zucker
173. The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.
David Joseph Schwartz
174. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy.
Thornton Wilder
175. Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take.
Lothar Kaul
176. To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
177. Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
Milton R. Saperstein
178. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
179. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha
180. It is not good to hang on to anger - I am the only one that it is really hurting.
Unknown
181. He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
182. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
183. Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
Corrie Ten Boom
184. Trust God for great things; with your five loaves and two fishes, he will show you a way to feed thousands.
Horace Bushnel
185. Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.
Paul Santaguid
186. Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day of the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
187. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Goethe
188. We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!
A. J. Gossip
189. The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.
190. Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.
John Tillotson
191. He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to Him, and not He to us, because before He was loved, He loved us... There it is, then: we cannot... love Him with this first love. Yet I say that God demands of us, that as He has loved us without any second thoughts, so He should be loved by us. In what way can we do this, then? ... I tell you, through a means which he has established, by which we can love Him freely; ... that is, we can be useful, not to Him -- which is impossible -- but to our neighbor... To show the love that we have for Him, we ought to serve and love every rational creature and extend our charity to good and bad -- as much to one who does us ill service and criticizes us as to one who serves us. For, His charity extends over just men and sinners.
Catherine of Siena
192. One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.
François de Sales
193. Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Brian Tracy
194. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Jacob M. Braude
195. If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
196. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
197. Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
Leo Buscaglia
198. I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
Jim Rohn
199. You can learn from people, and educate others, but the only one you can change is yourself.
Dan D. Limon
200. To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
201. In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there i= s room for nothing.
Antonio Porchia
202. Do you know what real poverty is? It is never having a big thought or a gen= erous impulse.
Jerome P. Fleishman
203. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how w= e react to it.
Robert Urich
204. Like heroes in a mythic journey, we are meant to struggle to make the right= choices.
Caroline Myss
205. I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
Roy Croft
206. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller
207. The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
Angel Kyodo Williams
208. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
209. At this very moment, there are people only you can reach... and
differences only you can make.
Michael Dooley
210. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Glenn Clark
211. If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
212. Those who dance are considered insane
by those who can't hear the music."
George Carlin
213. Soft words are hard arguments.
Thomas Fuller
214. The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
215. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
216. Within your reflection, discover perfection. Don't fall for the loveless lies. The one to believe in is right before your eyes.
Matthew and Gunnar Nelson
217. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
Albert Einstein
218. True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
E. S. Bouton
219. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
220. A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
Jean Paul Richter
221. When you are scared, the trick is not to rid your stomach of butterflies, but to make them fly in formation.
Unknown
222. There comes a time when one must take a position that's neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must make it because his conscience tells him that it's right.
Martin Luther King
223. We are more than the sum of all our problems.
Christian Acts of Kindness
224. When I bristle with cold words deflating, Lord, help me find warm ones more elevating.
Fred Bauer
225. When I run into obstacles, dear Lord, help me to look for ways around them.
Phyllis Hore
226. Holy Spirit, I want to keep open the windows of my heart and let you rearrange my thinking and my doing.
Mary Jane Clark
227. God, Your Blessings always arrive. Teach me to be patient and wait for them, and never to tire of looking.
Edward Grinnan
228. Dear God, help me see your goodness and find blessings in the burdens of this day.
Mary Brown
229. God give me the patience to do what I can and leave the rest to You.
Melody Bonnette
230. Let me always reach out to those around me, God. Your time is too precious to waste on imagined slights.
Brigitte Weeks
231. When troubles mount and worries grow large, remind me, Lord, Who is in charge.
Fred Bauer
232. Lord, when I'm upset, help me keep my words brief and let me save my wordiness for praising.
Patricia Lorenz
233. Lord, help me to keep the helping chain going. If I am tempted to become the broken link, give me a boost.
Patricia Lorenz
234. Today, God, help me find a balance between my needs and the needs of those who look to me for help.
Linda Neukrug
235. Jesus, you are the same yesterday today and forever. Be my past, my present, and my future.
Carol Knapp
236. Dear, God, help me to be more sensitive to the differences in people that make them so special.
Kenneth Chafin
237. Thank you, Lord, for the memories of love and friendship that add sweetness to our days.
Brigitte Weeks
238. Lord, help me get the most out of this wonderful life You've created by being a doer not just a listener or watcher.
Patricia Lorenz
239. God, teach us to be planters of seeds, tillers of prayers, fillers of needs.
Fred Bauer
240. Have you ever noticed that those who make the greatest impact upon society are often those who have suffered most.
Billy Graham
241. It is your duty to keep yourself s fit as possible, spiritually and physically. You cannot be the best for God if you drive yourself to the point where you are practically dropping with fatigue and something within you is about to snap.
Billy Graham
242. Getting to know ourselves better, knowing who we are, accepting who we are, and finding the freedom to be who we are...is a direct product of slowing down and taking time.
Luci Swindell
243. Are you letting the worrows, the what if's of life, rob you of the joy of what is!
Barbara Johnson
244. I continue to love recess. We were designed to work and to work heartily. But without respites, work will wear us to a frazzle. Recess keeps the dazzle in our footwork.
Patsy Clairmont
245. Effective communication is: two people hearing each other's words without uncontrolled tonguing.
Marilyn Moberg
246. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
247. Careful void in yourself those things which disturb you in others.
Unknown
248. Learn to share your feelings and preferences withour being unkind or unfriendly. Don't let me kid you: this takes work.
Luci Swindoll
249. Learning to live with upside down situations isn't easy. But we have to since we are all living mistakes, things under constructionm, and othing perfect or finished yet.
Barbara Johnson
250. Some people have the mistaken idea that becoming a christian will be a shelter from the personal storms of life.
Billy Graham