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June 1,  2009 “Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it up in a problem.”
---Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1923), Minister

“She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.”
---Luke 2:7
June 2,  2009 “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
---Michael J. Fox, actor

“Suddenly, Festus shouted, ‘Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!’ But Paul replied, ‘I am not insane, Most Excellent Festus. What I am saying is the sober truth.’”
---Acts 26:24-25
June 3,  2009 “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
---Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German-Swiss poet, novelist, painter, and 1946 Nobel Prize winner for Literature

“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
---Romans 8:28
June 4,  2009 “I tell them that if you stay committed, your dreams can come true. I’m living proof of it. I left home at 17 and had nothing but rejections for 25 years. I wrote more than 20 screenplays, but I never gave up.”
---Michael Blake, author of Dances with Wolves

“Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.”
---II Corinthians 4:1
June 5,  2009 “Trust your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else’s.”
---Billy Wilder, producer

“Then David asked the Lord, ‘Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?’
And the Lord told him, ‘Yes, go after them. You will surely recover everything that was taken from you!’”
---I Samuel 30:8
June 6,  2009 “Earn this.”
---Tom Hanks, actor, as Captain Miller in the film, Saving Private Ryan

“And what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?”
---Hebrews 2:3
June 7,  2009 “A vision is a clearly articulated results-oriented picture of a future you intend to create. It is a dream with direction.”
---Jesse Stoner Zemel

“As for you, you will be called the Prophet of the Most High, for you will prepare the way for the Lord.”
---Luke 1:76
June 8,  2009 “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
---Rumi

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”
---Luke 23:34
June 9,  2009 “Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.”
---Denis Waitley, author, speaker

“Praise the Lord, I tell myself; with my whole heart I will praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, I tell myself, and never forget the good things he does for me.”
---Psalm 103:1-2
June 10,  2009 “Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.”
---St. Augustine of Hippo, (354-430), early church father and Bishop of Hippo, quoted from his Confessions.

“If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.”
---James 3:13
June 11,  2009 “Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
---Vincent Van Gough (1853-1890), artist

“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for…part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.”
---Ephesians 1:11, in The Message
June 12,  2009 “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism”
---Charles Schwab

“Teach these things, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them.”
---I Timothy 6:2
June 13,  2009 “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
---Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), journalist

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”
But David persisted…“The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”
---I Samuel 17:33, 37
June 14,  2009 “We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrongdoing makes us irritable, and our heart in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.”
---Henri Amiel (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher

“One day when Saul was sitting at home, with spear in hand, the tormenting spirit from the lord suddenly came upon him again. As David played his harp, Saul hurled his spear at David. But David dodged out of the way, and leaving the spear stuck in the wall, he fled and escaped into the night.”
---I Samuel 19:9-10
June 15,  2009 “Aging? Death? Self? The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don’t cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don’t turn up the TV and pretend they aren’t there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.”
---Max Lucado, Minister

“The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here.”
---Romans 13:12
June 16,  2009 “Discernment is the mother of all the virtues; everyone needs it either to guide the lives of others or to direct and reform his own life.”
---From a sermon by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, (1125-1190)

“Give discernment to me, your servant; then I will understand your laws.”
---Psalm 119:125
June 17,  2009 “We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can’t be solved, worrying will do no good.”
---The Dali Lama, in the film, Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

“Don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries.”
---Matthew 6:34
June 18,  2009 “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
---Margaret Thatcher

“Put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm.”
---Ephesians 6:13
June 19,  2009 “Midway through our life’s journey, I went astray
From the straight road and woke to find myself
Alone in a dark wood.”
---Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), poet, quote from his Inferrno, I. 1-3

“I have wandered away like a lost sheep;
Come and find me,
For I have not forgotten your commands.”
---Psalm 119:176
June 20,  2009 “To be able to look back on the journey together and say, ‘Thank you Lord for the gift of my partner,’ is itself a gift from God.”
---David B.Whitlock, Ph.D., on his fifth wedding anniversary to Lori Whitlock

“The man who finds a wife finds a treasure.”
---Proverbs 18:22
June 21,  2009 “My Dad, though quite busy in the growing up years, was there when I needed him, and just as importantly, when I didn’t.”
---David B.Whitlock, Ph.D

“Listen to your father’s instruction.”
---Proverbs 4:1
June 22,  2009 Dalai Lama: Tell me a story, Heinrich. Tell me a story about climbing mountains.
Heinrich Harrer: That's one way to fall asleep. Those stories bore even me.
Dalai Lama: Then tell me what you love about it.
Heinrich Harrer: The absolute simplicity. That's what I love. When you're climbing your mind is clear and free from all confusions. You have focus. And suddenly the light becomes sharper, the sounds are richer and you're filled with the deep, powerful presence of life. I've only felt that one other time.
Dalai Lama: When?
Heinrich Harrer: In your presence, Kundun.
---From the film, Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

“Jesus took Peter, James, and John up on a mountain to pray. And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling as he was praying.”
---Luke 9:28-29
June 23,  2009 “Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.”
---Robert Half, personnel executive

“Be persistent, whether the time is favorable or not.”
---II Timothy 4:2
June 24,  2009 “The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
---Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Cistercian monk

“And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, ‘Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, and that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!’ So God granted him what he requested.”
---I Chronicles 4:10
June 25,  2009 “If I miss one day’s practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.”
---Ignace Paderewiski, Polish pianist

“And we are confident in the Lord that you are practicing and will continue to practice the things we commanded you.”
---II Thessalonians 3:4
June 26,  2009 “Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love him as they love their cow---they love their cow for the milk and cheese and profit it makes them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God when they love him for their own advantage. Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have on your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost truth.”
---Meister Eckhart (c.1260-c.1328), German theologian, mystic

“You must have no other god but me.”
---Exodus 20:3)
June 27,  2009 “Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.”
---Rita Mae Brown, writer

“Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.”
---Proverbs 23:23
June 28,  2009 “Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.”
---Confucious

“Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.”
---Proverbs 20:4
June29, 2009 “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
---Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1831-1945) Supreme Court Justice

“And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people.”
---Ephesians 1:13-14
June 30,  2009 “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
---Douglas Adams, writer

You yourselves know, dear brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not a failure. You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we cane to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly in spite of great opposition. So you can see we were not preaching with any deceit or impure motives or trickery.”
---I Thessalonians 2:1-3
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