Daily Quote Archives
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“The world was made round so we would never be able to see
too far down the road.”
---Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), pen name for writer Karen
Dinesen, best known for her work, Out of Africa.
We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
---Proverbs 16:9 |
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“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes
and to make amends for them.”
---John J. McCloy (1895-1989), presidential advisor
I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night.
---Psalm 51:3
The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not
reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
---Psalm 51:17 |
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“To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.”
---Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), American social writer and
philosopher, known as “the longshoreman philosopher”
As Jesus was going down the road, he saw Matthew sitting at
his tax-collection booth. “Come, be my disciple, Jesus said
to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.
---Matthew 9:9 |
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“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more
intelligently.”
---Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of Ford Motor Co.
Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me
willing to obey you. Then I will teach your ways to sinners.
---Psalm 51:12-13 |
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“What I value more than all things is good humor.”
---Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd President of the U.S.
A relaxed attitude lengthens life.
---Proverbs 14:30 |
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“Once a mind has been stretched by a new idea, it never
returns to its original shape.”
---Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician,
professor, writer
I recall all you have done, O Lord;
I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.
They are constantly in my thoughts.
I cannot stop thinking about them.
---Psalm 77:11-12 |
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“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of
fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the
impossible happen.”
---Robert Jarvik American scientist, entrepreneur
“I told them about how the gracious hand of God had been on
me, and about my conversation with the king. They replied at
once, ‘Good! Let’s rebuild the wall!’ So they began the good
work.”
---Nehemiah 2:18 |
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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they
are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on
in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make
them.”
---George Bernard Shaw (1814-1885), playwright
So David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. Soon
his brothers and other relatives joined him there. The
others began coming---men who were in trouble or in debt or
who were just discontented---until David was the leader of
about four hundred men.”
---I Samuel 22:1-2 |
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“Our technological civilization has cushioned life on all
sides, yet more than ever before, people helplessly succumb
to the blows of life. This is very simple because a merely
technological culture cannot give any help in the face of
life’s eternal tragedy; here only an inward foundation can
help. Externalized as they are, too many people today have
no ideas, no strength, nothing that might enable them to
master their restlessness and dividedness. They do not know
what to make of trials, obstacles, or suffering---how to
make something constructive of them---and perceive them only
as things that oppress and irritate them and interfere with
life.”
---Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems ands trials,
for we know that they are good for us---they help us learn
to endure. And endurance develops strength of character in
us, and character strengthens our confident expectation of
salvation. And this expectation will not disappoint us. For
we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the
Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with love.”
---Romans 5:3-5 |
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“All appears to change when we change.”
---Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher, poet
If any man is in Christ man, he is a new creature; the old
things passed away; behold, new things have come.
---II Corinthians 5:17 |
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“Learn to unlearn.”
---Benjamin Disreali 1804-1881), British Prime Minister
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the
wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the
skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.
---Mark 2:22 |
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“A person doesn’t go into solitude simply to practice a lot
of virtues. If that’s what is supposed to happen I’m
probably not going to make the grade. But you go into
solitude to cast your care upon the Lord.”
---Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist monk and writer
“Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you; He
will never allow the righteous to be shaken.”
---Psalm 55:22 |
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“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the
heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each
honest worker.”
---Helen Keller (1880-1968), American author, lecturer, the
first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were
working for the Lord rather than for people.
---Colossians 3:23 |
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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no
education at all.”
---Aristotle (384 B.C.E.--322 B.C.E.)
“The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel!
The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love
the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all
your mind, and all your strength.’”
---Mark 12:29-30 |
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“Let us…not forget that the church is a hospital for
sinners, not a haven for the already perfect.”
---Scot McKnight, professor, author
“So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for
the good of all, and especially for those of the family of
faith.”
---Galatians 6:10 |
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“I can’t get no satisfaction.”
---Mick Jaggger, rock star
“Never forget the things I have taught you. Store my
commands in your heart. If you do this, you will live many
years, and your life will be satisfying.”
---Proverbs 3:1-2 |
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“I am certain that all that I am, I have received from God.”
---St. Patrick (c.390-c.461), Christian missionary
“Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your
workmanship is marvelous---how well I know it.”
---Psalm 139:14 |
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“He that would have fruit must climb the tree.”
---Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), English church historian
“So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the
road, for Jesus was going that way.”
---Luke 19:4 |
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“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of
foolish ideas have died there.”
---F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American writer
“So my God gave me the idea…”
---Nehemiah 7:5 |
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“Maybe the cross was why Jesus so loved children. They
represented the very thing he would have to give: Life.”
---Max Lucado, minister, author
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
---Matthew 19:14 |
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“Nothing is often a good thing to do, and almost always a
clever thing to say.”
---Will Durant (1885-1981), historian, philosopher
“Let all that I am wait quietly before God…”
---Psalm 62:5 |
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“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is
public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two.
Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if
you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than
doing the eulogy.”
---Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
So the Lord said to Moses, “Now therefore, go, and I will be
with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”
---Exodus 4:12 |
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“The greatest satisfaction in the world is work well done.”
---J.C. Penny (1875-1971), entrepreneur
“Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand
before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.”
---Proverbs 22:29 |
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“When I am unsure, I glorify Him by seeking His will and
then waiting for His guidance. When I need to make a
decision, I lean on His word for direction and His Spirit
for strength.”
---Charles R. Swindoll, minister, author
So we decided to leave for Macedonia at once, having
concluded that God was calling us to preach the Good News
there.”
---Acts 16:10 |
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“Perhaps the reason so few of us see God doing the
impossible through us is that we are unwilling first to say,
‘Let it be according to your word, Lord.’”
---David B. Whitlock, Ph.D.
“Let it be to me according to your word.”
---Luke 1:38 |
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“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”
---Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), speaker, defender of
agnosticism
“If you are angry, let it be without sin. The sun must not
go down on your wrath; do not give the devil a chance o work
on you.”
---Ephesians 4:26-27 |
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are endless.”
---Mother Teresa (1910-1997), Roman Catholic nun and founder
of the Sisters of Charity
“A person’s words can be life-giving water; words of true
wisdom are as refreshing as a bubbling brook.”
---Proverbs 18:4 |
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“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.”
---The Talmud
“Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And
you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all
your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit
yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving
you today. You must repeat them again and again to your
children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you
are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are
getting up.”
---Deuteronomy 6:4-7 |
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“There is no true solitude except interior solitude. An
interior solitude in not possible for anyone who does not
accept his right place in relation to other men. There is no
true peace possible for the man who still imagines that some
accident of talent or grace or virtue segregates him from
other men and places him above them. Solitude is not
separation.”
---Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), Trappist monk, in New Seeds
of Contemplation
Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this:
‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only
Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your
heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.
The second is equally important; ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.’”
---Mark 29-31 |
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My sin consisted in this, that I sought pleasure, sublimity,
and truth not in God but in his creatures, in myself and
other created beings. So it was that I plunged into
miseries, confusions, and errors.”
---St. Augustine (354-430), early church theologian and
Bishop of Hippo, quoted in his Confessions
“I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not
tolerate your affection for any other gods.” |
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“Spectacular results come from unspectacular preparation.”
---Roger Staubach, former professional athlete
But David persisted. “I have been taking care of my father’s
sheep and goats,” he said. “When a lion or a bear comes to
steal a lamb from the flock, I go after it with a club and
rescue the lamb form its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I
catch it by the jaws and club it to death. I have done this
to both lions and bears, and I’ll do it to this pagan
Philistine (Goliath), too, for he has defied the armies of
the living God! The Lord who rescued me from the claws of
the lion and bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”
---I Samuel 17:34-37 |
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