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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded what we
are the other three hundred sixty four days of the year.”
---Mark Twain, Puddinhead Wilson
“If you have been a fool by being proud or plotting evil,
cover your mouth in shame.
---Proverbs 30:32 |
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“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m
successful now. I might as well take a nap.’”
---Carrie Fisher, American actress, novelist
“I am eighty-five years old. I am as strong now as I was
when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel
and fight as well as I could then. Now, give me that
mountain…”
---Joshua 14:10-11 |
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“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not
the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is
the highest skill.”
---Sun Tzu (400-320 B.C.E.) military commander, author of
The Art of War
“God blesses those who work for peace.”
---Matthew 5:9 |
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“Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling
the conscience and blinding it against further light, and
sometimes for years.”
---Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), English writer
Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly
confused. Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far
from the life God gives because they have closed their
minds, and hardened their hearts against him. They are past
feeling…”
---Ephesians 4:18-19 |
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“Holiness…is not necessary as a condition of
salvation---that would be salvation by works---but as a part
of salvation that is received by faith in Christ.”
---Jerry Bridges, author, Bible teacher
“You are to give him the name Jesus (which means ‘Jehovah’
is salvation’) because he will save his people from their
sins.”
---Matthew 1:21 |
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the
whole staircase.”
---Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman,
leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually
happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”
---Hebrews 11:1 |
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to
overlook.”
---William James (1842-1910), American psychologist and
philosopher
“May your eyes delight in my ways of wisdom.”
---Proverbs 23:26 |
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“Conflicted people bring conflict.”
---David B.Whitlock, Ph.D.
“What cause fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come
from your desires that battle within you?”
---James 4:1 |
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“Brothers can shine a light on our path for a brighter,
clearer road, and sometimes that leads us home again.”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
“Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to
encourage and strengthen the brothers. After spending some
time there, they were sent off by the brothers with the
blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them.”
---Acts 15:32-33 |
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“This Word played life against death and death against life
in tournament on the wood of the most holy cross, so that by
his death he destroyed our death, and to give us life he
spent his own bodily life. With love, then, he has so drawn
us and with his kindness so conquered our malice that every
heart should be won over.”
---St. Catherine of Siena, (1347-1380), Christian mystic of
the Middle Ages
“The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and
said ‘Surely this was a righteous man.’ When all the people
who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place,
they beat their breasts and went away. But all those who
knew him, including the women who had followed him from
Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.”
---Luke 23:47-49 |
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“A godly wife exudes an aura of encouragement that enables a
man to soar above his expected limitations.”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
“A worthy wife is her husband’s joy and crown.”
---Proverbs 12:4 |
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“Today is the day of salvation for the world…Christ is risen
from the dead: arise with him. Christ returns to himself;
you also must return to him. Christ has come forth from the
tomb: free yourselves for the fetters of evil. The gates of
hell are open and the power of death is destroyed. The old
Adam is superseded, the new perfected. In Christ a new
creation is coming to birth: renew yourselves.
---Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 330-389), Early Church Father,
Bishop of Nazianzum
“There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled
together and saying, ‘It is true! The Lord has risen and has
appeared to Simon.”
---Luke 24:33-34 |
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“I still carry some sadness about not having enjoyed the
rise to fame more. I seemed to be so busy trying to get to
the next gig and simply reacting to the details that I did
not comprehend the term ‘living in the moment.’”
---Wynona Judd
“Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to
this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and
make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen
tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for
a little while and then vanishes.”
---James 4: 13-14 |
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“One barrier to full intimacy with the Savior is
hurriedness. Intimacy may not be rushed. To meet with the
Son of God takes time. We can’t dash into his presence and
choke down spiritual inwardness before we hurry to our one
o’clock appointment. Inwardness is time-consuming, open only
to minds willing to sample spirituality in small bites,
savoring each one.”
---Calvin Miller, Christian teacher, author
“I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the
shelter of your wings.”
---Psalm 61:4 |
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“Lord Jesus, I am weary in thy work but not of it.”
---George Whitfield (1714-1770), evangelist
Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and
carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke
upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle
at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke
is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”
---Matthew 11:28-30 |
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“The gift of prayer is inseparable from another grace: that
of humility, which makes us realize that the very depths of
our being and life are meaningful and real only in so far as
they are oriented toward God as their source and their end.”
---Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist monk, in
Contemplative Prayer
“While in deep distress, Manasseh sought the Lord his God
and sincerely humbled himself before the God of his
ancestors. And when he prayed, the Lord listened to his
request. So the Lord brought Manasseh back to Jerusalem and
to his kingdom. Then Manasseh finally realized that the Lord
alone is God!”
---II Chronicles 33:12 |
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“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this
world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I
was made for another world.”
---C.S.Lewis (1898-1963), novelist, essayist, Christian
apologist
“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For
you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is in your life, appears, then you also
will appear with him in glory.”
---Colossians 3:1-4 |
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“When we refuse God’s offer of forgiveness, we are declaring
that our sin is more powerful than His grace.”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
Where sin increased, grace increased all the more so that,
just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign
through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.”
---Romans 5:20-21 |
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“All our falls are useful if they strip us of a disastrous
confidence in ourselves, while they do not take away a
humble and saving trust in God.”
---Francois Fenelon (1651-1715), French Roman Catholic
theologian
“The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in
every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will
not fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand.”
---Psalm 37:23-24 |
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“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness
is expected of him.”
---John Steinbeck (1902-1968), American writer
“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do
what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than
these, because I am going to the Father.”
---John 14:12 |
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“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters
are continually flowing on.”
---Heraclitus (535 B.C.E.-475 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher
“A man’s steps are directed by the Lord, so why try to
understand everything along the way?”
---Proverbs 20:24 |
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“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and
deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love
and charity.”
---Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Roman Catholic nun, founder of
the Missionaries of Charity
“As I have loved you so you must love one another.”
---John 13:34 |
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“The more deeply we are true to ourselves, the less self is
in us.”
---Meister Eckhart (c.1260-1327), German mystic
“He must become greater; I must become less.”
---John 4:30 |
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“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”
---Thomas Moore
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe
also in Me.”
---John 14:1 |
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“Enlightenment is what happens when someone turns on the
light while I am taking a nap.”
---Michael Brown, internet blogger
“Get away from the crowds for a while and rest.”
---Mark 6:31 |
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“Life is something that has to be lived and not talked
about.”
---Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
“In him we live and move and have our being.”
---Acts 17:28 |
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“Whatever happiness is in the world has arisen from a wish
for the welfare of others; whatever misery there is has
arisen from indulging selfishness.”
---Buddhist proverb
“Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an
interest in others too.”
---Philippians 2:4 |
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“By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.”
---Latin proverb
“As I learn your righteous laws, I will thank you by living
as I should!”
---Psalm 119:7 |
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“You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight
one next to it.”
---Socrates (469 BC.E.--399 B.C.E.)
“All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us
what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our
lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do
what is right.”
---II Timothy 3:16 |
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“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had
good intentions---he had money, too.”
---Margaret Thatcher (British Prime Minister, 1979-1990)
“Give in proportion to what you have.”
---II Corinthians 8:11 |
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