“A person who
doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks
of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his
failure certain by himself being the first person to be
convinced of it.”
---Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), French writer, best known as
author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of
Monte Cristo
A doubtful mind is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is
driven and tossed by the wind. People like that should not
expect to receive anything from the Lord. They can’t make up
their minds. They waver back and forth in everything they
do.
---James 1:6-8
July 2, 2006
“The first
method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look
at the men he has around him.”
---Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), political philosopher
The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead
them astray.
---Proverbs 12:26
July 3, 2006
“The essence of
sin is a shift from a God-centered to a self-centered life.
The essence of salvation is a denial of self. We must come
to a denial of self and a return to God-centeredness. When
this happens, God can accomplish through us the purposes he
had before He created the world.”
---Henry Blackaby in Experiencing God
If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside
your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross daily, and follow
me.
---Luke 9:23
July 4, 2006
“It is the duty
of nations, as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon
the overruling power of God and to recognize the sublime
truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all
history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is
the Lord.”
---Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th president of the United
States
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any
people.
---Proverbs 14:34
July 5, 2006
“All heaven is
waiting to help those who will discover the will of God and
obey it.”
---J. Robert Ashcroft (1878-1958), minister
Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the
Lord our maker, for he is our God. We are the people he
watches over, the sheep under his care. Oh, that you would
listen to his voice today!
---Psalm 95:6-7
July 6, 2006
“I would not
waste my life in friction when it could be turned into
momentum.”
---Frances Willard, (1839-1898), educator
Work hard at living in peace with others.
---Psalm 34:14
July 7, 2006
“To succeed you
need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate
you, something to inspire you.”
---Tony Dorsett, former professional football player
Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,
I strain to reach the end of he race and receive the prize
for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to
heaven.”
---Philippians 3:13-14
July 8, 2006
“It is hard to
understand how a cemetery raised its burial charges and
blamed it on the cost of living.”
---Anonymous
Fear of the Lord lengthens one’s life.
---Proverbs 10:27
July 9, 2006
“No one can
make you feel inferior without your consent.”
---Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me
was not in vain…
---I Corinthians 15:10
July 10, 2006
“Beware of
harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be
something you have never been.”
---Oswald Chambers, (1874-1917), Christian leader, author,
teacher
Those who become Christians become new persons. They are not
the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has
begun!
---II Corinthians 5:17
July 11, 2006
“It is good to
‘act as if.’ It is even better to grow to the point where it
is no longer as act.”
---Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), writer
(5)Never once did we try to win you with flattery…and God is
our witness that we were not just pretending to be your
friends so you would give us money! (8) We loved you so much
that we gave you not only God’s Good News but our own lives,
too.
---I Thessalonians 2:5, 8
July 12, 2006
“I may be
interested in many things, but what I choose to be involved
in will ultimately determine the significance of my life.”
---David B.Whitlock, Ph.D.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in
me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from
me you can do nothing.”
---John 15:5
July 13, 2006
“The future
depends on what we do in the present.”
---Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and
religious leader
You will always reap what you sow! Those who live only to
satisfy their own sinful desires will harvest the
consequences of decay and death. But those who live to
please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the
Spirit.
---Galatians 6:7-8
July 14, 2006
“If you aren’t
fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
---Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach
Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the
Lord rather than for people.
---Ephesians 6:7
July 15, 2006
“The secret of
success is constancy to purpose.”
---Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Prime Minister
And so, since God in his mercy has given us this wonderful
ministry, we never give up.
---II Corinthians 4:1
July 16, 2006
“Why focus on
what you can’t do? Doing what we can will in itself increase
our abilities to do what we couldn’t do yesterday.”
---David B.Whitlock, Ph.D.
To those who use well what they are given, even more will be
given, and they will have an abundance.
---Matthew 25: 29
July 17, 2006
“You can’t wait
for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
---Jack London (1876-1916), writer
Beautiful words stir my heart. I will recite a lovely poem
about the king, for my tongue is like the pen of a skillful
poet.
---Psalm 45:1
July 18, 2006
“Sometimes the
best and only thing parents can do is follow Jesus and hope
their children will find the tracks.”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
Mark out a straight path for your feet; then stick to the
path and stay safe. Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet
from following evil.
---Proverbs 4: 25-26
July 19, 2006
“The church is
the one institution that exists for those outside it.”
---William Tyndale (circa 1494-1536), sixteenth century
pastor and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early
Modern English of his day
Therefore go and make disciples…
---Matthew 28:19
July 20, 2006
“Learn to say
no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read
Latin.”
---Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), England’s best known
preacher during the second half of the nineteenth century
“Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’”
---Matthew 5:37
July 21, 2006
“There are
three keys to success: 1. Being at the right place at the
right time. 2. Knowing you are there. 3. Taking action.
---Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s
The sons of Issachar (were) men who understood the times,
with knowledge of what Israel should do…”
---I Chronicles 12:32
July 22, 2006
“Discipline is
what happens when our loving father steps in to lift us away
from our own destructive and unfruitful pursuits.”
---Bruce Wilkinson in Secrets of the Vine
As a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God
disciplines you.
---Deuteronomy 8:5
July 23, 2006
“Not everybody
can be young, though being youthful is within everybody’s
reach. Youth is a temporal phase; youthfulness a
psychological condition.”
---Theodore Levitt, Thinking About Management
Even the youths will become exhausted, and young men will
give up. But those who wait on the Lord will find new
strength. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk
and not faint.
---Isaiah 40:30-31
July 24, 2006
“There are
three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ
someone, or forbid your children to do it.”
---Anonymous
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children live in
the truth.
---III John 4
July 25, 2006
“It’s not
what’s in front of you that blocks your way; it’s what’s
inside you that holds you back.”
---Jim Whittaker, first American to reach the summit of Mt.
Everest
I assure you, even if you had faith as small as a mustard
seed you could say to his mountain, ‘move from here to
there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”
---Matthew 17:20
July 26, 2006
“If we forget
that this is all about Him, if we revert to the myth that
church is all about us, then we never quite enter in and we
miss the whole purpose of it all.”
---Tommy Tenney in The God Catchers
Then I pray to you, O Lord. I say, “You are my place of
refuge. You are all I really want in life.”
---Psalm 142:5
July 27, 2006
“I make my
practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want
him to quit in practice, not in a game.”
---Paul Bear Bryant, (1913-1982), national collegiate coach
of the year three times, led the University of Alabama to
six national championships, and at retirement was the
winningest coach in the history of college football
We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not
crushed and broken. We are perplexed but we don’t give up
and quit.
---II Corinthians 4:8
July 28, 2006
“You only need
two loves in your life; for God, and for the person in front
of you at any particular time.”
---Reverend Elroy Cruz, quoted in Jimmy Carter, Our
Endangered Values
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought
to love each other. No one has seen God. But if we love each
other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to
full expression through us.
---I John 4:11-12
July 29, 2006
“To improve the
golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is
within our reach, is the great art of life.”
---Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), one of England’s greatest
literary figures
Make the most of every opportunity for doing good…
---Ephesians 5:16
July 30, 2006
“One great
power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not
recognize its true character.”
---Andrew Murray (1828-1917), minister and author
Though your hearts were once full of darkness, now you are
full of light from the Lord, and your behavior should show
it!
---Ephesians 5:8
July 31, 2006
“Oh, this is a
reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our
friend. And we should not be satisfied till we are brought
to this.”
---George Muller (1805-1898), English evangelist and
philanthropist
You are my friends if you obey me.
---John 15:14
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