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August 1,  2009 “Heaven is filled with converted sinners of all kinds, and there is room for more.”
---St. Joseph Cafasso (1811-1860), Priest, Professor of theology, reformer of prisons and minister to prisoners

“There is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away.”
---Luke 15:7
August 2,  2009 “A person may have a hundred million dollars and be a failure. And the widow who sets her goal to provide the best possible education for her child and to give him the best possible character training may die a pauper but leave an immortal influence. This truly is success---the persistent achievement of a worthy, challenging goal.”
---Mack R. Douglass, author, speaker

“May the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!”
---Psalm 90:17
August 3,  2009 “The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.”
---W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright, novelist, short story writer

“Moses was very humble---more humble than any other person on earth.”
---Numbers 12:3
August 4,  2009 “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
---Claude Monet (1840-1926), French landscape painter

“Everything you do must be done with love.”
---I Corinthians 16:14
August 5,  2009 “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
---Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist, poet, philosopher

“People with good sense restrain their anger.”
---Proverbs 19:11
August 6,  2009 “Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.”
---Erich Fromm (1900-1980), psychologist, philosopher

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me…”
---Matthew 11:29
August 7,  2009 “Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.”
---Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994), evangelist

“Be persistent in your prayers for all Christians.”
---Ephesians 6:18
August 8,  2009 “No day is so bad that it can’t be made better with a nap.”
---Carrie Snow, comedian

“A relaxed attitude lengthens life.”
---Proverbs 14:30
August 9,  2009 “Three things in life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
---Henry James (1843-1916), author

“Be kind to each other, tenderhearted.”
---Ephesians 4:32
August 10,  2009 “It is time to get back to the basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on the state.”
---John Major, Former British Prime Minister

“Take hold of my instructions; do not let them go; guard them well, for they are the key to your life.”
---Proverbs 4:13
August 11,  2009 “Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.”
---Mitzi Chandler, Writer and inspirational speaker

“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.”
---Philippians 4:6
August 12,  2009 “All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.”
---Author unknown

“If you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you. God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the right to save or destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?”
August 13,  2009 “A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”
---Bo Bennett, author, speaker

“Lord, remember David and all that he suffered. He made a solemn promise to the Lord. He vowed to the Mighty One of Israel, ‘I will not go home; I will not let myself rest. I will not let my eyes sleep nor close my eyelids in slumber until I find a place to build a house for the Lord, a sanctuary for the Mighty One of Israel.’”
---Psalm 132:1-5
August 14,  2009 “Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.”
---Frank Tyger, quoted in Forbes

“In my search for wisdom and in my observation of people’s burdens here on earth, I discovered that there is ceaseless activity, day and night. I realized that no one can discover everything God is doing under the sun. Not even the wisest people discover everything, no matter what they claim”
---Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
August 15,  2009 “If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.”
---Brian Tracy, author, inspirational speaker

“When he finally came to his sensed, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have good enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! I will go home to my father…’”
---Luke 15: 17-18
August 16,  2009 “Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.”
---Max Ehrman (1872-1945), attorney, businessman, poet

“Always be prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks for the hope that is within you but do so with gentleness and respect.”
---I Peter 3:15
August 17,  2009 “A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
---Michael Garrett Marino

“Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of understanding.”
---Proverbs 9:6
August 18,  2009 “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard, English playwright

“When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.”
---Acts 16:7
“After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.”
---Acts 16:10
August 19,  2009 “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
---Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, philosopher

“This one thing I do…”
---Philippians 3:13
August 20,  2009 “If you let your past control your present, then you will never have a future.”
---Suzie Davis, Bit and Pieces, Winter 2005

“May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us---yes, establish the work of our hands.”
---Psalm 90:17
August 21,  2009 “In prayer and meditation, God’s presence is never separated from God’s absence, and God’s absence is never separated from God’s presence in the heart. The presence of God is so much beyond the human experience of being near to another that it quite easily is misperceived as absence. The absence of God, on the other hand, is often so deeply felt that it leads to a new sense of God’s presence.”
---Henri Nouwen (1932-1996), Jesuit priest, professor of theology, writer

“Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?”
---Psalm 10:1
“Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.”
---Psalm 139:7-8
August 22,  2009 “When other people commit them (sins), you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural.”
---Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997), writer, journalist, broadcaster, environmentalist

“Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me.”
---Psalm 19:12-13
August 23,  2009 “God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.”
~John Donne (1572-1631) English poet

There is a Sabbath rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.
---Hebrews 4:9
August 24,  2009 “The best support for faith is the guarantee that if we ask our Father for bread, he does not give us a stone. Quite apart from explicit religious belief, every time that a human being succeeds in making an effort of attention with the sole idea of increasing his grasp of truth, he acquires a greater aptitude for grasping it, even if his effort produces no visible fruit.”
---Simone Weil (1909-1943,) French philosopher, Christian mystic, social activist, quoted her book, Waiting on God

“You parents---if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.”
---Matthew 7:9-11
August 25,  2009 “Faith is a redirecting of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus…Faith looks out instead of in and the whole life falls into line.
---A.W.Tozer (1897-1963), Christian pastor, writer, conference leader

“Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.”
---Hebrews 12:2
August 26,  2009 “Everyone says forgiveness is a wonderful idea until they have something to forgive.”
----C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), novelist, professor of medieval literature, philosopher, Christian apologist

“Bear with each other, and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”
---Colossians 3:13
August 27,  2009 “Faith is the refusal to panic.”
---Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), minister of Westminster Chapel, London, England

“He said to his disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’”
---Mark 4:40
August 28,  2009 “This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.”
---Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) novelist

“As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.”
---Genesis 8:22
August 29,  2009 “There is another essential aspect of Christianity: the interior, the silent, the contemplative, in which hidden wisdom is more important than practical organizational science, and in which love replaces the will to get visible results. The New Man must not be a one-sided activist: he must also have depth, he must be able to be silent, to listen to the secret voice of the Spirit. He must renounce his own will to dominate and let the Spirit act secretly in and through him.”
---Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist monk

“And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, there was the sound of a gentle whisper.”
---I Kings 18:11-13
August 30,  2009 “There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
---Steven Wright, comedian

“Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.”
---Matthew 4:19
August 31,  2009 “You know your children have grown up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going.”
---Unknown

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
---Proverbs 22:6
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