"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