"If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders."

~Anonymous  

"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world."

~C.S. Lewis  

"My life may not be going the way I planned it, but it is going exactly the way God planned it."

~Anonymous  

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

~Anonymous  

God's 3 answers to prayer:

1. yes

2. not yet

3. I have something better in mind.

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

~Anonymous

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

"Let your faith be bigger than your fear."

~Anonymous

"Faith in God includes faith in His timing."

~Anonymous

"I can't brag about my love for God because I fail Him daily, but I can brag about His love for me because it never fails."

~Anonymous  

Saturday, December 22, 2012

"You cannot love a fellow creature fully until you love God."

~C.S. Lewis  

"A true friend knows your weaknesses, but shows you your strengths."

~Anonymous

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

~Anonymous

"If you worry, you didn't pray.  If you prayed, then don't worry!"

~Anonymous  

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

~Lao Tzu  

Sunday, December 16, 2012

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them."

~Albert Einstein

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

~Jimmy Johnson

"Happiness is a direction, not a destination."

~Anonymous  

"Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me!'  Look what happens with a love like that.  It lights up the whole sky."

~Hafiz

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right."

~Anonymous

"If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you are in?"

~Anonymous

"God has bigger plans for me than I have for myself."

~Anonymous

"You are loved more than you will ever know by someone who died to know you."

~Anonymous

"The longer you wait for something, the more you'll appreciate it when you get it because anything worth having is definitely worth waiting for."

~Anonymous

"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing that it is stupid."

~Albert Einstein 

"Sometimes you have to forget what you want to remember what you deserve."

~Anonymous

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

~Stephen Hawking

"Pray.  God's got this."

~Anonymous

"Reading is dreaming with your eyes open."

~Anonymous  

"It is a risk to love.  What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does?"

~Peter McWilliams

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.  If you don't ask, the answer is always no.  If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."

~Anonymous

"Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you."

~Anonymous

"I always thought love was shaped like a heart, but it's actually shaped like a cross."

~Anonymous

"God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, nor sun without rain; but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way."

~Anonymous  

"God doesn't give you the people you want, He gives you the people you need.  To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to make you the person you were meant to be."

~Anonymous  

"God doesn't give us what we can handle, God helps us handle what we are given."

~Anonymous

"My child, you worry too much.  I've got this; remember?"

~God

"Just because God doesn't answer your prayers doesn't mean He's not listening.  He's just got something better in store for you."

~Anonymous

"Sisters are the perfect best friend."

~Anonymous  

"What if you woke up today with only the things that you thanked God for yesterday?"

~Anonymous  

"Stressed is desserts spelled backwards."

~Anonymous

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day."

~Anonymous

"You are you.  This is truer than true.  There is no one alive who is youer than you."

~Dr. Seuss

"Hope doesn't necessarily take the form of excessive confidence; rather, it involves the simple willingness to take the next step."

~Stanley Hauerwas  

"Perhaps strength doesn't reside in having never been broken, but in the courage required to grow strong in the broken places."

~Anonymous  

Friday, November 16, 2012

"Vision without action is a daydream.  Action without vision is a nightmare."

~Anonymous  

"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."

~Barbara Johnson  

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

~Corrie Ten Boom

"Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

~Nicholas Sparks The Lucky One

"When I saw you, I fell in love; and you smiled because you knew."

~William Shakespear

"Kindness don't have no boundaries."

~Aibileen from The Help

"Life is what happens while you make other plans."

~John Lennon

"Many of life's failures occur when people don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

~Anonymous

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

~Pooh

"Keep praying, but be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your prayers."

~William Culbertson

"Happiness is the secret to all beauty.  There is no beauty that is attractive without happiness."

~Christian Dior

"The maintenance of faith depends on the persistence of prayer."

~Anonymous

"When you experience rejection in life, know that it doesn't define you.  How you respond defines you."

~Jordan Kemper  

"Don't be so driven by your past that you throw away your future."

~Kate Beckett from Castle

"May God give you eyes to see beauty only the heart can understand."

~Anonymous

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

~Anonymous

"When you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.  God is awake."

~Victor Hugo 

"It is what it is, but it will be what you make of it."

~Basketball coach for Lady Vols

"You don't have to be with the most beautiful person in the world; be with the person who makes you the most beautiful."

~Wiz Khalifa

"Throughout our lives we grow apart from some people and closer to others.  Some people God just puts back in our lives because that's where they are supposed to be."

~Anonymous  

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~Maya Angelo

"I have never seen a smiling face that is not beautiful."

~Anonymous

"Lord God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown.  Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord."

~Anonymous  

"Prayer is not asking.  Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depths of our hearts."

~Mother Teresa  

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

"If they are dumb enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go."

~Anonymous

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

~Harriet Tubman  

"You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know."

~William Wilberforce  

"Friends remind us we are part of something greater than ourselves, a larger world."

~Barbara Jenkins

"Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."

~Tim Kizziar  

"Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  Today is a gift, that's why we call it the present."

~Kung fu Panda

"The will of God will never take you where the grace of God does not protect you."

~Anonymous

"The only point of looking back is to see how far we've come."

~Anonymous

"Forgiveness comes when you give up the hope that you can change the past."

~Oprah

"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.  I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.  I love you for the part of me that you bring out."

~Roy Croft

"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight."

~Bruce Cockburn

"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."

~John Dewey  

"A woman of true beauty offers others the grace to be and the room to become."

~Stasi Eldredge  

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

~B.B. King 

"My three-year-olds teach me something every day.  Today's lesson was that even when all you can see is dirt, somewhere there is a plant in there that will grow, and it's something to be excited about."

~Mindy Francisco

"Johnny Appleseed planted a small seed every day, and by doing so, he changed the landscape of a nation.  A teacher does the same thing every day."

~Esme Raji Codell

Sunday, October 7, 2012

"We did not want to stop hearing God's voice.  Indeed, God kept on speaking, but our lives became louder."

~Michael Yaconelli

"Predictability and faith cannot coexist."

~Michael Yaconelli

"Joy comes from recognizing God in places we never thought He would be."

~Michael Yaconelli  

"The Jesus who can rescue you is the One you can trust even when you're not rescued."

~Michael Yaconelli  

"Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep.  Wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you're in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without make up on.  One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have you.  The one who turns to his friends and says, 'That's her...'".  

~Anonymous

"In all things preach Christ; if necessary, use words."

~St. Francis of Assisi

"To trust God is to rest in Him and to be assured that our times and our lives are in His hands.  To rest in Him means we have a quiet heart...a heart free of fretting and striving...a heart that is filled with the perfect love that casts out all fear...a heart that is at peace within the hollow of His hand."

~Roy Lesin  

Sunday, September 30, 2012

"When you are waiting, you are not doing nothing.  You're doing something.  You're allowing your soul to grow up.  If you can't be still and wait, you can't become what God created you to be."

~Sue Monk Kidd

"May God grant you a dream so humanly impossible that its improbable success can only point to His glory, not your own."

~Jonathan Acuff

"A good teacher is like a candle- she consumes herself to light the way for others."

~Anonymous  

"Worry implies that we don't quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives."

~Francis Chan  

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"Faith makes all things possible, hope makes all things work, and love makes all things beautiful."

~Pastor Igor

"What a teacher thinks she teaches often has little to do with what students learn."

~Susan Ohanian 

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

~Norman Vincent Peale  

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

~Duke Ellington

Friday, September 21, 2012

"You never know whose eyes God is watching you through."

~Denver Moore

"Loving God means loving people; and loving people means making a difference for God."

~Ron Hall

"To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply."

~Don Thomas 

"Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rear-view mirror."

~Anonymous  

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

~Douglas Adams

"Secrets lose their power when they are no longer secrets."

~Theresa Flores  

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

~Helen Keller  

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Thursday, September 13, 2012

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

~Anonymous

"It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile."

~Garry Marshall

"One person can make a difference, and every person should try."

~John F. Kennedy  

"Your students may not always remember what you taught them, but they will always remember how you treated them."

~Anonymous  

"Students who don't quite fit in for one reason or another sometimes just need a helping hand- not necessarily to help them reach, but to help them connect."

~Vicki Caruana 

"I have the power to mold, to nurture, to hold, to hug, to love, to cajole, to praise...to point out pathways...to become part of another person's well-being.  What could be more powerful?"

~Marva Collins  

Friday, September 7, 2012

"The best teachers teach from both the head and the heart."

~Harry Wong  

"A smile is a light to tell people that your heart is connected with theirs."

~Lynn Birdsong

"A smile is easier to produce than a frown."

~Harry Wong  

"Ours is not the business of producing doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, scientists, policemen, sales people, factory workers, or high test scores.  Ours is the business of producing smiles on young faces, happiness in young hearts, and dreams in young minds.  The rest will take care of itself."

~Dan Seufert  

"The heart of education is the education of the heart."

~Harry Wong  

"Students are influenced more by the depth of your conviction than the height of your intelligence."

~Harry Wong  

"I have come to a frightening conclusion.  I am the decisive element in the classroom.  It is my personal approach that creates the climate.  It is my daily mood that makes the weather.  As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.  I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.  I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.  In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized."

~Haim Ginott  

"No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.  The effort of every true educator should be to unlock that treasure."

~Emma Goldman  

"You don't get a second chance to make a first impression."

~Harry Wong  

"Children are like wet cement.  Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

~Haim Ginott

"Give your students more than they expect, and you will get back more than you ever expected."

~Harry Wong  

"All our dreams can come true--if we have the courage to pursue them."

~Walt Disney  

"Whether you think you can or think you can't--you are right."

~Henry Ford  

"Your legacy as a teacher is to make one difference, one student at a time."

~Harry Wong  

"Teaching is a journey of the heart."

~Harry Wong  

"Each child is living the only life he has- the only one he will ever have.  The least we can do is not diminish it."

~Bill Page  

"There is absolutely no research correlation between success and family background, race, national origin, financial status, or even educational accomplishments.  There is but one correlations with success, and that is attitude."

~Harry Wong  

"Becoming a truly accomplished teacher is a journey, not a destination."

~Harry Wong  

"It only takes one person to make a difference."

~Harry Wong 

"Education is the most important business around.  Teachers are the landscapers of the human race."

~Anna Quindlen  

"Some people can give thousands of reasons why they cannot succeed at something when all they need is one reason why they can succeed."

~Harry Wong  

"The role of a teacher is to uncover."

~Harry Wong  

"Do not allow people who cannot control their own behavior to be in control of your behavior."

~Harry Wong  

"Inside every great teacher there is an even better one waiting to come out."

~Harry Wong  

"The quality of the choices you make today will dictate the quality of your opportunities tomorrow."

~Harry Wong  

"Education is not a product; it is a never-ending process."

~Harry Wong  

"The best teachers are also the best students."

~Harry Wong  

"The highest stake of all is our ability to help children realize their full potential."

~Samuel J. Meisels 

"Love is the reason for teaching."

~Chelonnda Seroyer  

"God doesn't give us something new unless our hands are empty."

~Karen Kingsbury

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

~John Cotton Dana 

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."

~Plato

"Prayer is not asking.  It is a longing of the soul.  It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

~Gandhi 

"The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his head to rule over him; nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him; but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved."

~Matthew Henry   

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

~Mother Teresa  

"How like God to draw us into something that makes sense to our human way of thinking and then turn it completely around to teach us things He wants us to learn."

~Toni Schirico Horras 

"The only life worth living is one that you are really passionate about."

~Emma from Glee 

"When your day is hemmed with prayer, it is less likely to unravel."

~Anonymous

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched; they must be felt with the heart."

~Helen Keller  

"Don't look at people like everyone else looks at them, but look at them how God looks at them."

~Anonymous

"Enjoy the little things in life; for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things."

~Anonymous

"You can't get to where you are going without starting from where you are at."

~Anonymous

"Be careful with your judgments, but be generous with your love."

~Peter Dibley

"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow."

~Alice Mackenzie Swaim 

"A smile is a light in the window of your face that shows that your heart is at home."

~Anonymous  

"Truth only means something when it's hard to admit."

~Nicholas Sparks  

"If everything comes too fast or too soon, we don't know the thrill that comes after wanting something for a long time."

~Nancy Hanna 

"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

~Garth Brooks

"The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work."

~Charles Swindoll

"What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

~Mother Teresa

"Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch."

~from the movie Remember Me

"Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I remember.  Involve me and I learn."

~Benjamin Franklin  

"The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  

~William Arthur Ward  

"What we choose, changes us.  What we love, transforms us."

~Anonymous

"God wrote your love story.  Let Him read it to you."

~Anonymous  

"The depth of your heart determines the height of your dreams."

~Anonymous

"You are the difference in the lives of the kids you teach!"

~Anonymous  

"The most effective teachers are those who produce an effect on themselves."

~Anonymous  

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

~Gandhi  

"Tell me I can't, then watch me do it!"

~Anonymous  

"Your ability unveils your destiny."

~Max Lucado

"Those who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most."

~Joan Clayton  

"Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion!"

~Anonymous

"Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself to serve."

~from The Shack

"Love always leaves a significant mark."

~from The Shack

"The soul is healed by being with children."

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Kids don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

~Debra Peppers  

"Girls are like apples on trees.  The best ones are at the top of the tree.  The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt.  Instead, they get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but are easy.  So the apples up top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they're amazing.  They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who is brave enough to climb all the way to the top."

~Anonymous  

"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."

~from My Sister's Keeper

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way."

~George Evans

"We can't waste our lives waiting to live."

~Anonymous

"It is an interesting thing to come into contact with the divine, for God does seem to undo the things that we have spent so much of our lives doing."

~Quote from CHIC '09

"It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance."

~Anonymous

"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning."

~Anonymous  

"Love isn't finding someone you can live with; it's finding someone you can't live without."

~Anonymous

"Someday someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else."

~Anonymous  

"Let go.  I want to take it from you."

~God

"There are times when the one thing you want is the one thing you never get.  You pray and wait.  No answer.  You pray and wait.  May I ask you a very important question?  What if God says no?  What if the request is delayed or even denied?  When God says no to you, how will you respond?  If God says, "I've given you My grace, and that is enough," will you be content?  Content.  That's the word.  A state of heart in which you would be at peace if God gave you nothing more than He already has."

~Max Lucado from his devotion titled When God Says No

"A mindful kind of love is powerful because it is conscious and intentional.  It chooses to love despite- and because of- everything we know to be true about the other person."

~Matthew Paul Turner from Mind Games

"Dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening, love like you've never been hurt before, live like heaven begins tomorrow."

~Anonymous  

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to tell the difference."

~Anonymous

"Your thoughts can make you believe or doubt.  They can be true or false.  They can lead you toward a healthy lifestyle or steal away your ability to live a fulfilled life.  Perhaps, most powerfully, thoughts have the ability to free you, or they can enslave you inside the worst cage of all...yourself."

~Matthew Paul Turner from Mind Games

"You are the only Bible some may ever read."

~Anonymous

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

~Oprah Winfrey  

"Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because finally reality is better than your dreams."

~Dr. Seuss  

"You will never be able to escape from your heart, so it's better to listen to what it has to say."

~from The Alchemist

"The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!  It is never too late to become what you might have been."

~Anonymous

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

~Anonymous 

"If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't over-sleep."

~Anonymous

"Your ultimate vocation in life is where your heart's greatest passion meets the world's deepest need."

~Anonymous

"Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world."

~Nelson Mandella  

"I simply think God is greater than our weakness.  In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is."

~Max Lucado  

"Goodbyes are really hard, but sometimes you just have to hold on to the blessing that you had the hello in the first place."

~Debbie Beggs

"Being happy isn't about having everything perfect in your life, it's about stringing together the little things."

~from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle; I just wish He didn't trust me so much!"

~Mother Teresa  

"God is God.  He knows what He is doing.  When you can't trace His hand, trust His heart."

~Max Lucado  

"It's only in forgetting yourself that you draw near to God."

~Thoreau  

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

~Campbell  

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

~Helen Keller  

"God does not call the equipped; He equips the called."

~Anonymous  

"The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain."

~J. R. Miller

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

~Edmund Burke  

"Our responsibility is to respond to His ability."

~Anonymous  

"Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it."

~Albert Smith

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

~Shakespeare  

"There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

~C.S. Lewis

"Don't long for the past; long for what's coming next."

~Anonymous

"It's hard to wait around for something that you know might never happen, but it's even harder to give up when you know it's everything you want."

~Anonymous  

"Love without judging those who need love most."

~Anonymous

"True love is not finding a perfect person, but loving an imperfect person perfectly."

~Anonymous

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

~Abraham Lincoln

"At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear."

~Max Lucado

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what you do with what happens to you."

~Anonymous

"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."

~Shirley MacLaine  

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same."  

~The Fray

"A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her."

~Maya Angelou

"Learn from yesterday; live for today; hope for tomorrow."

~Anonymous  

"Surrendering is the secret to every genuine love, and surrendering our hearts and souls to God unleashes our personalities to become what they are really meant to be.  Surrendering the heart is really about our identities being transformed."

~Scot McKnight

"Let your life speak.  Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you."

~Parker Palmer

"Only if we serve will we experience freedom.  Only if we lose ourselves in longing will we find ourselves.  Only if we die to our own self-centeredness will we begin to live."

~John R.W. Stott

"What God thinks of us (our identity) is far more important than what others think of us (our reputation)."

~Anonymous

"Because God takes care of tomorrow, we can more fully enjoy today."

~Anonymous

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

~Viktor Frankl 

"The longest journey begins with a single step."

~Lao Tzu Tau Te Ching

"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."

~Anonymous

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain."

~Anonymous

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.  Whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life...all the individual threads woven together that creates something."

~Anonymous

"We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness."

~Anonymous

"Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."

~Mother Teresa

"Don't let your life be a series of random events.  Live it on purpose; live it with passion."

~Anonymous

"God knows what we need, and He is never late."

~Anonymous

"If you live a life of love, you will love the life you live."

~Anonymous

"Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus."

~Jeanine from the book Captivating

"Faith that counts, then, is not the absence of doubt; it's the presence of action."

~Brian McLaren  

"When God gives a friend, He is entrusting us with the care of another's heart."

~Stasi Eldredge

"For beautiful lips, speak words of kindness.  For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.  For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.  For beautiful hair, let a child run their hands through it.  For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone."

~Audrey Hepburn

Post for Monday, April 23rd

"We can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude.  I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include."

~from the movie Chocolat

"Learn as if you will never catch up, and as if you feared losing what you have already attained."

~Confucius  

"Your life's work is where the needs of the world and the joys of your heart intersect."

~Anonymous

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."

~Phyllis Theroux

"Triumph is just umph added to try."

~Anonymous

"We cannot follow the Shepherd if we insist on leading the way."

~Anonymous  

"Some things you aren't ready for until after you do them."

~from the show The Evidence

"Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you."

~Anoymous

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

~Victor Hugo

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."

~James Russell Lowell

"A teacher affects eternity; she can never know where her influence stops."

~Henry Brooks Adams

"We have value not because we do, but just because we are."

~Phyllis Burdge

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

~Brian Tracy

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."

~Bonnie Friedman

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."

~Jewish proverb

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength."

~Anonymous

"It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving."

~Mother Teresa

"To be happy: don't do whatever you like; like whatever you do."

~Anonymous

"Success consists of getting up once oftener than you fall down."

~Anonymous

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

~Anonymous

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

~Clare Booth Luce

"When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself."

~Anonymous

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it."

~Anonymous

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

~Roger Caras

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

~Anonymous

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz

"Happy people don't have the most, they make the most of what they have."

~Anonymous

Post for Monday, March 26th

"We all smile in the same language."

~Saying from a fortune cookie

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"Worry is a waste of your imagination."

~Anonymous

"The lives that have been the greatest blessing to you are the lives of those people who themselves were unaware of having been a blessing."

~Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest)

"The biggest differences come in the smallest acts."

~Mitch Albom  

"Life is what we make of it."

~Dave Pelzer (A Man Named Dave)

"Sometimes God calms the storm, and sometimes He calms us in the midst of the storm."

~Anonymous

"To be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

~E.E. Cummings  

"Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet."

~Sadie Delany (Having Our Say)

"If you don't like something, change it.  If you can't change it, change the way you think about it!"

~Anonymous

"Giving in its purest form expects nothing in return."

~ from the movie Secret Santa

"The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."

~Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet In Heaven)  

"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."

~Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet In Heaven)

"All endings are also beginnings.  We just don't know it at the time."

~Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet In Heaven)

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."

~Martha Washington

"Sometimes the greatest service is the one least noticed."

~Anonymous

"God has no hands, nor has He feet, nor voice except ours; and through these He works."

~Teresa of Avila 

Post for Friday, March 9th

"There is nothing that you can do to make God love you more, and there is nothing that you can do to make Him love you less."

~Scott Pease  

"God isn't after the one with the ability; He's seeking the one with the availability."

~Susie Shellenberger

"I am a unique child of God, full of potential, and my life is hidden in Christ."

~Mr. Horvath (based on Colossians 3)

"Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing.  His hand formed you and made you the person you are.  He compares you to no one else- you are one of a kind.  You lack nothing that His grace can't give you.  He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation."

~Anonymous

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world is his dog."

~Anonymous

"Oh, it's nice to get up in the morning; but it's nicer to lie in bed!"

~Sir Harry Lauder  

"When life gets tough, toughen your faith."

~Anonymous  

   

"If you call yourself a Christian, you need to live up to the name and follow the definition.  If not?  Then call yourself what you really are- a hypocrite."

~Susie Shellenberger

"Always remember that, whatever betide you, you are never alone, for God is beside you."

~Helen Steiner Rice

"Time is what keeps things from happening all at once."

~ Graffiti   

   
   
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

~Abraham Lincoln

   

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

~Anne Frank

               

"Life is the greatest adventure you will ever go on.  Make sure you don't forget to enjoy the ride."

~Anonymous

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."


~Abraham Lincoln

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for life, love what you do."

~Mary Higgins Clark

"If you can't have what you want, then want what you have."

~Terri Blackstock

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

~Law & Order

"Courage is realizing that you are afraid and still doing something about it."

~Rudy Guiliani (after 9/11/01)

"Jesus is all you will ever need, but you won't realize it until He is all you have."

~Janna Long of Avalon