Quotes

Where possible, I have given due credit to the author of the quote. I apologize, but there are many quotes I've collected over the years for which I do not know whom to attribute credit for the wisdom. These quotes have influenced my life, and I owe a great debt of gratitude to the ones who were so inspired. Cheryl E. Smith

• The most broken people are the easiest to build upon.  Zachary Smith 3-24-19
• Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt
• When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. Billy Sunday
• Procrastination isn't worth the wait. Zachary Smith 2-19-14
• Charity is love with work gloves on. Willard G. Underdown
• Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• If people speak evil of you, live so no one will believe them.
• You are worrying and troubling yourself, and you can do nothing; go to sleep. Charles Spurgeon
• The characteristic of holiness, which is the outcome of the indwelling of God, is blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s word and an amazing tenderness in personal dealings. Oswald Chambers
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner is you.
• We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died. John MacArthur
• To silence a preacher from preaching judgment is like being awoke from sleep by a fire alarm, and just silencing the alarm, and going back to sleep. Unknown
• When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. CS Lewis
• The price of prayerlessness far exceeds the price of prayer. Unknown
• Earth has no words that can convey the holy calm of a soul leaning on Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
• If you can sincerely ask God to forgive someone, you have truly and completely forgiven them yourself. CE Smith
• The Christian army is the only army that shoots its wounded. Unknown
• Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be. AW Tozer
• Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. DL Moody
• Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a deathlike grip. Charles Spurgeon
• The holy man is not one who cannot sin. A holy man is one who will not sin. AW Tozer
• All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God. Oswald Chambers
• When it looks like things are out of control, behind the scenes there is a God who hasn’t surrendered His authority. AW Tozer
• We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. Harry Ironside
• There will be highs. There will be lows. The important thing is that you are affected by neither. (The Lord to me.)
• God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him. Hudson Taylor
• The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God. Brother Andrew
• God took the giant down because of David's obedience. Pastor Lon
• Being filled with the Spirit is simply this – having my whole nature yielded to His power. Andrew Murray
• There's a difference between giving up and letting go.
• God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume . . . it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. Vance Havner
• As a leader it is hard to make the kinds of decisions that are required when someone won't follow, adhere to rules, etc., but the Holy Spirit is faithful to nudge in the right direction. That direction is not always easy, and it often requires inward turmoil because I do not want to hurt anyone. But, if someone is disrespecting the rules, then it is on them. It is not that I am doing something wrong by enforcing the rules. It is that they have done wrong by breaking them. CE Smith 10-10-2022
• First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it. Thomas Manton
• The way to heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. Jonathan Edwards
• When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice? Amy Carmichael
• The enemy of the enemy is my friend.
• There are things going on in heaven that we can't see on earth just yet. Valentine Dolezal
• I'm able to work this out whether you pray for it or not. (God to me) 5/9/2024
• There are people I have placed in your life to be/as sentinels. (God to me) 5/9/2024
• The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. Andrew Murray
• Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. JC Ryle
• When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication. Jonathan Edwards
• If you aim higher than the mark, you have a better chance of hitting the mark. A Holiday Affair
• There is no telling how far an organization can go, and how it can succeed, if no one cares who gets the credit. Ronald Reagan
• O Spend your time as you would hear of it in the Judgment! Richard Baxter
• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl
• Father, let me loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp. Jim Elliot
• Never mind man’s frown if God smiles. Catherine Booth
• Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.
• A dream is not a thing you wish for; it's a thing you work for.
• What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts. Amy Carmichael
• The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ’s church. Leonard Ravenhill
• Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, “I will forgive, but not forget.” It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it. DL Moody
• Jacob wrestled not as much with a promise, as with a Promiser. EM Bounds
• Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. Hudson Taylor
• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart. John Bunyan
• In verses 8-10 he says, “Our sole defense, our only weapon, is a life of integrity, whether we meet honor or dishonor, praise or blame. Called ‘imposters’ we must be true, called ‘nobodies’ we must be in the public eye. Never far from death, yet here we are alive, always ‘going through it’ yet never ‘going under.’ We know sorrow, yet our joy is inextinguishable. We have ‘nothing to bless ourselves with’ yet we bless many others with true riches. We are penniless, and yet we possess everything.” (Phillips)
• The hand of God is best seen in the rear-view mirror. Dallas Willard
• Courage is fear prayed for. Anonymous
• When asking God to transform you to be more like Him, be prepared that He could use a son or daughter to help accomplish that.
• Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief in God. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life. JC Ryle
• It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority. Vance Havner
• In a dream, a man saw someone in heaven who he thought didn't belong there. So he asked God why this person, who had done so much to cause him great disappointment, was in heaven? God said, "Child, I've been using this person for a long, long time to make you into the man I want you to be."
• If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes not difference. He is praying for me. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
• Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself. Suzanna Wesley
• At some point, it has to go from being highlighted in your Bible to being written on your heart. Unknown
• You must pray will all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God. [Be sure that with] this kind of prayer, the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. William Booth
• Now what am I to do? What can I think now are those duties that God requires of me in the circumstances that he has now put me into?  Let me exert my strength to perform the duties of my present circumstances. Others spend their thoughts on things that disturb and disquiet them, and so they grow more and more discontented. Let me spend my thoughts in thinking what my duty is, what is the duty of my present circumstances which I am in? Jeremiah Burroughs
• Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by this heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils. William Gurnall
• Never decide on anything or start to do anything while emotion is agitating like a roaring sea. Again, during that time even our conscience is rendered unreliable. Watchman Nee
• Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains. Alan Redpath
• Read, mark, and inwardly digest the Word. Martin Luther
• Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God. Andrew Murray
• God uses struggles with another person to sharpen us into someone whom He can use for His own glory. Just as iron sharpens iron, God may also be using one man, one rebellious son, or one wayward teenage daughter, to sharpen you into the person He wants you to be. 
• A man's self is to him the prime cause of most of his miseries.
• Quitters never win; winners never quit.
• Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless. Charles Spurgeon
• When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down. DL Moody
• What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much. JC Ryle
• It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God. AW Tozer
• Tonight will be forgotten if you do something amazing tomorrow.
• When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked. JC Ryle
• “Wait on the Lord”—is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not His way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present—or to guide us more than one step at a time.  When in doubt—do nothing—but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come. JI Packer from Knowing God
• Love dwells in the shadows. When something is needed to be done, it steps out of the shadows, does what needs to be done, then steps back into the shadows again. 
• Always respond to every impulse to pray. I would make an absolute law of this – always obey such an impulse. Where does it come from? It is the work of the Holy Spirit; it is a part of the meaning of “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil 2:12-13). This often leads to some of the most remarkable experiences in the life of the minister. So never resist it, never postpone it, never push it aside because you are busy. Give yourself to it, yield to it; and you will find not only that you have not been wasting time with respect to the matter with which you are dealing but that actually it has helped you greatly in that respect … Such a call to prayer must never be regarded as a distraction; always respond to it immediately, and thank God if it happens to you frequently. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• Men are God’s method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. EM Bounds
• “When a person becomes a Christian, it is no longer a priority to listen to the world. It is no longer a priority to care what the world may think. Everything changes. The world looks completely different. All of the temporal pleasures of this world become less enjoyable because a greater joy has been found. Thus you place your fingers in your ears, for you no longer care about the world’s opinion, and you run like a lunatic crying, Life! Life! Eternal life!” John Bunyan
• Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and power flow in. Andrew Murray
• Iron tools are made sharp and fit for use by rubbing them against the file, or some other iron. Wesley
• If the Lord is your friend, who is he that can harm you? All is well. Charles Spurgeon
• Taking up my “cross” means a life voluntarily surrendered to God. AW Pink
• You cannot be deeply wounded by someone you have not deeply loved.
• 2 Corinthians 3:18 - "changed into the same image" - We are being changed into His image so He will see Himself in us!
• Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer’s attitude toward money and possessions is determinative. John MacArthur
• Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest. Thomas Hooker
• God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God’s being with them. Hudson Taylor
• Oh! One hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
• David Brainerd
• If you will step forward at God's command, the waters will part. C Smith
• Saul means destroyer; Paul means worker.
• In every experience of life, the Lord is standing at the door and knocking and saying “Will you trust Me in this?” Elisabeth Elliot
• "Make your calling and election sure." 2 Peter 1:10 Calling- vocation; election - a selecting
• The pure in heart will see God. (Matthew 5:8) Sometimes the purification process is a painful one, but it is worth it to see God.
• Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power. AB Simpson
• When the church and the world can jog comfortably along together, you can be sure something is wrong. The world has not compromised—its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was. If Christians were equally as faithful to the Lord, separated from the world, and living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did. It is the church that has compromised, not the world. Catherine Booth
• If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
• The only safe place for sheep is by the side of the shepherd because the devil does not fear sheep; he just fears the shepherd. AW Tozer
• Good men's graces are sharpened by conversing with those that are good. Bad men's ways are sharpened by conversing with those that are bad. Iron is sharpened by its like, especially by the file. Take heed whom we choose to converse with, because the influence upon us is so great, either for the better or for the worse. Matthew Henry
• God’s Word and God’s Spirit always agree and are of the same mind. The Spirit of God who gave the Holy Scripture cannot say one thing here and another in your heart. That would be to bear witness against himself. And how can a divided kingdom stand? Ralph Venning
• Before a person gives up one thing for another, he has to want that other thing more.
• The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. Elisabeth Elliot
• I have a great a need for Christ. I have a great Christ for my need. Charles Spurgeon
• Do it because you want to put the best of yourself in it.
• You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness. Leonard Ravenhill
• Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most 2. What we think about most 3. How we use our money 4. What we do with our leisure time 5. The company we enjoy 6. Who and what we admire 7. What we laugh at  AW Tozer
• God’s training is for now, not later. His purpose is for this very minute, not for sometime in the future. We have nothing to do with what will follow our obedience, and we are wrong to concern ourselves with it. What people call preparation, God sees as the goal itself. Oswald Chambers
• God speaks to us through the unexpected.
• Promises made in a storm are forgotten on a calm sea.
• To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near to God. Smith Wigglesworth
• It is the students of the Bible and they alone, who will find it a weapon ready in hand in the day of battle. JC Ryle
• When the church and the world can jog comfortably along together, you can be sure something is wrong. The world has not compromised—its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was. If Christians were equally as faithful to the Lord, separated from the world, and living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did. It is the church that has compromised, not the world. Catherine Booth
• A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life. Andrew Murray
• God has given no pledge that he will not redeem and encouraged no hope that he will not fulfill. Charles Spurgeon
• Everything begins with intention.
• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. William Booth
• No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing. The people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers. Many players and payers, few pray-ers. Many singers, few clingers. Lots of pastors, few wrestlers. Many fears, few tears. Much fashion, little passion. Many interferes, few intercession. Many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere. Leonard Ravenhill
• Many Christians have what we might call a “cultural holiness.” They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them. As the Christian culture around them is more or less holy, so these Christians are more or less holy. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God. Jerry Bridges
• Grief is proof that love is stronger than death. Erwin McManus
• To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, “Come to me and rest.” But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them, this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service… “Come to me and rest.” Never, never did Christ send a heavy-laden one to work. Hudson Taylor
• Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my feet. Unknown
• Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong, we can do nothing but act upon them. Elisabeth Elliot
• Although you may be born again, it will require time to become a full-grown Christian. Justification is instantaneous, but sanctification is a lifework. We are to grow in wisdom. We are to add grace to grace. A tree may be perfect in its first year of growth, but it has not attained its maturity. So with the Christian: he may be a true child of God, but not a matured Christian. DL Moody
• Grace makes us the servants of God while still we are the servants of men: it enables us to do the business of heaven while we are attending to the business of earth: It sanctifies the common duties of life by showing us how to perform them in the light of heaven. Charles Spurgeon
• The fear of God is a Christian’s safety. He is invulnerable; nothing can hurt him. Plunder him of his money, he carries a treasure about him of which he cannot be robbed (Isa. 33:6). Cast him into prison his conscience is free; kill his body, it shall rise again. He who has on this breastplate of God’s fear may be shot at, but can never be shot through. Thomas Watson – from The Great Gain of Godliness, 1682
• There will be three effects of nearness to Jesus—humility, happiness, and holiness. May God give them to you, Christian! Charles Spurgeon
• A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray. JC Ryle
• Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness. Adrian Rogers
• Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.
• God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there. FW Faber
• There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough—a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice—which costs nothing, and is worth nothing. JC Ryle
• God never issues instructions He is not prepared to equip us to obey.  Elizabeth Elliot
• The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him. Charles H. Spurgeon
• Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear. FB Meyer
• Elisha had more of the Holy Spirit, dead, than most Christians have of Him, alive. Steve Wilburn
• With God, the most of mosts is lighter than nothing, and without Him the least of leasts is heavier than any burden. One of the ladies of the Scottish Covenant
• David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God. Dwight L. Moody
• Malice is mental murder. Thomas Watson
• If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? David Livingstone
• O, there is nothing that can so advantage you, nothing can so prosper you, so assist you, so make you walk towards heaven rapidly, so keep your heads upwards toward the sky, and your eyes radiant with glory, like the imitation of Jesus Christ. It is when, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you are enabled to walk with Jesus in His very footsteps and tread in His ways, you are most happy and you are most known to be sons and daughters of God. For your sake, Christ, I say, be like Christ. To draw Him nearer to me, and myself nearer to Him is the innermost longing of my soul. Charles Spurgeon
• Don't sacrifice opportunity on the altar of comfort.
• You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it? Hannah Whitall Smith
• Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer. JC Ryle
• I want to be so full of Christ that if a mosquito bites me, it flies away singing “There is Power in the Blood” Unknown
• In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. John Wesley
• One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. AB Simpson
• Heavy is the head that wears the crown. William Shakespeare
• When Christ died, He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better—His PEACE!  Matthew Henry
• One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic [Early] Church was the spirit of boldness … holy audacity … all things are possible unto him that believeth.  AB Simpson
• Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.  Oswald Chambers
• God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.  Elisabeth Elliot 
• The value of persistent prayer is not that God will hear us, but that we will finally hear God.  William McGill
• “Stand still” —keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, “Go forward.” Charles Spurgeon 
• Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.  FB Meyer
• Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.  EM Bounds 
• All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet. Samuel Brengle
• Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That … I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, “Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." John Wesley
• The spirit of prayer is pressing forth of the soul out of this earthly life; it is a stretching with all its desire after the life of God, to be one life, one love, one spirit with Christ in God. William Law
• I’ve learned to kiss the wave that throws us upon the Rock of Ages. Charles Spurgeon
• Warriors of old placed themselves beyond the possibility of defeat and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. Sun Tzu
• Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else—time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun—but no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!  Oswald Smith
• Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.  RA Torrey
• Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it.  Alister McGrath 
• Those who do not rejoice with you in your victories will most likely not be there for you in your defeats.  Cheryl E. Smith
• There are tremendous thoughts expressed in God’s Book, and unless we have learned to rely on the Holy Spirit we shall say, “Oh, I shall never understand that.” But the Holy Spirit understands it, and as we recognize that and rely on Him, He will work it out, whether we consciously understand or not.  Oswald Chambers
• If God is your partner, make your plans BIG.  D.L. Moody
• It does not matter how great the pressure is, it only matters where the pressure lies; Whether it comes between you and God, or whether is presses you closer to His heart. Hudson Taylor
• Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you will find it the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly.  AW Tozer 
• We serve God best when we serve others most.
• The Trinity - one and the same, all God, equal authority.
• You cannot be used by God without first being willing to be used by people.
• There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.  William Law
• By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!  Watchman Nee
• Don't let the petty get in the way of what is important.  God to me 5/1/2020
• Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.  DL Moody
• The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God's realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.  Corrie ten Boom, 
• God thought it, Jesus brought it, the blood bought it, the Holy Spirit wrought it, the Bible taught it, the devil fought it, we caught it.
• Prayer has obtained things that seemed impossible and out of reach. It has won victories over fire, air, earth, and water. Prayer opened the Red Sea. Prayer brought water from the rock and bread from Heaven. Prayer made the sun stand still. Prayer brought fire from the sky on Elijah’s sacrifice. Prayer overthrew the army of Sennacherib. Prayer has healed the sick. Prayer has raised the dead. Prayer has procured the conversion of countless souls. JC Ryle
• Whenever God is preparing to do something great in the earth, He first sets His people a-praying!  Matthew Henry
• Apostasy begins in the closet. No man ever backslid from the life and power of Christianity who continued constant and fervent in private prayer. He who prays without ceasing is likely to rejoice evermore.  Adam Clarke 
• In these days there is not time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray. It ought to be possible to give God one hour out of twenty-four all to Himself.  Samuel Chadwick 
• Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given. G. Campbell Morgan
• If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big.  Elizabeth Elliot
• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.  Martin Luther
• In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day’s business.  William Penn
• Sometimes people accomplish the most when they have the least amount of time to get it done.
• To truly connect with God, ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.  Dallas Willard
• It's easier to be who you are than to pretend to be someone you are not.
• From this hour some strength will come.
• Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours.  God thirsts that we may thirst for Him.  St. Augustine
• If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are.
• The more you take, the less you have.
• Before the battle of the fist comes the battle of the mind.
• He can calm any storm if you'll let Him in your boat.  Janette Oke, When Tomorrow Comes
• If God is spending work upon a Christian, let him be still and know that it is God. And if he wants work, he will find it there–in the being still.   Henry Drummond
• God speaks in the silence of the heart.  Listening is the beginning of prayer.  Mother Teresa
• Faith is the assurance that the thing which God has said in His word is true, and that God will act according to what He has said in His word.  George Mueller
• Sympathy is no substitute for action.  David Livingstone
• Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.  Charles Dickens
• In the heart of every man there is an adventure to live, a battle to fight, and a princess to rescue.
• One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
• Prayer is the song of the heart.  It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and tumult of a thousand men.  Kahlil Gibran
• Don't be concerned over what was or what will be.
• The true mark of a hero is humility.
• Stop fighting the truth; it will set you free.
• If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.  Charles Spurgeon
• It's funny how the things we try to run away from become the things we miss the most.
• No place I seek, but to fulfill in life and death thy loving will. No succor in my woes I want, except what thou are pleased to grant. Our days are numbered, let us pare our anxious hearts a needless care: 'tis thine to number our days, and ours to give them to Thy praise.  Madame Guyon
• Just because someone is a part of your family does not mean they should remain a part of your life.  C.E.Smith
• Know that I love utterly. I am God. Believe it and be satisfied.  St. Anthony of Padua
• Scripture says, “Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” (Romans 8:14). The childlike privilege of asking for anything is inseparable from the childlike life under the leading of the Spirit. The one who yields himself to be led by the Spirit in his everyday life will be led by Him also in his prayers. He will find that father-like giving is the divine response to childlike living. Andrew Murray
• To silence a preacher from preaching judgment is like being awoke from sleep by a fire alarm, and just silencing the alarm, and going back to sleep.
• I have known persons to pray till they were all wet with perspiration, in the coldest weather in winter. I have known persons pray for hours, till their strength was all exhausted with the agony of their minds. Such prayers prevailed with God.  Charles G. Finney
• If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer — His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable. John Newton 
• The thief had nails through both hands, so that he could not work and a nail through each foot, so that he could not run errands for the Lord.  He could not lift a hand or a foot toward his salvation, and yet Christ offered him the gift of God, and he took it. Christ threw him a passport, and took him into Paradise. D.L. Moody
• Thou hast made us for Thyself, O God, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.  St. Augustine 
• Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work, as God’s messengers, be intercession; in it, we secure the presence and power of God to go with us. Andrew Murray
• Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.  Charles Spurgeon 
• It is God with whom we travel, and while He is at the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.  Elizabeth Elliot
• In prayer, I give myself to God; in the Word, God gives Himself to me. Andrew Murray
• Sometimes the best and happiest moments happen during detours from our original plans.  C.E.Smith
• It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.  Augustine
• Shamgar - ox goad.  Moses - a rod.  Woman - oil.  Little boy - loaves and fish.  God took what they had and multiplied it when they gave what they had to Him.  Jentezen Franklin
• You can make all the plans you want, but God has a plan of His Own, and He doesn't feel the need to check in with you.
• "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”  Abraham Lincoln
• With the power of God within us, we need never fear the powers around us.  Woodrow Kroll
• Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God in prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.  Hudson Taylor
• Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. Jim Elliot
• Sometimes you have to do uncomfortable things to better your life.  C.E.Smith
• You don't have to beg for what God has already promised you.  C.E.Smith
• In God's economy, you can give everything you have and still have everything you need.
• Real trust comes when we say "yes" to God without having a clue as to what He is asking us to do.
• You must go forward on your knees.  Hudson Taylor 
• For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.  Gilbert Tennent
• Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.  Corrie Ten Boom
• The farmer in the field, or the farmer’s wife in the farmhouse, if they are doing their work by faith for the glory of God, are fulfilling as high and holy a calling as the pastor in the pulpit.  Martin Luther
• Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.  Hannah Whitall Smith
• Empathy goes a long way in building a bridge between two opposing opinions.  C.E.Smith
• Learn to be happy with what you need.
• Surrender to what is.  Let go of what was.  Have faith in what will be.
• Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.  E.M. Bounds
• I like that saying of Martin Luther, when he says, “I have so much business to do today, that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours’ prayer.” Now, most people would say, “I have so much business to do today, that I have only three minutes for prayer; I cannot afford the time.” But Luther thought that the more he had to do, the more he must pray, or else he could not get through it. That is a blessed kind of logic: may we understand it! “Praying and provender hinder no man’s journey.” If we have to stop and pray, it is no more hindrance than when the rider has to stop at the farrier’s to have his horse’s shoe fastened; for if he went on without attending to that it may be that ere long he would come to a stop of a far more serious kind.  Charles Spurgeon
• Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. AB Simpson
• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. Corrie ten Boom
• If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer — His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.  John Newton
• If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.  Robert Murray M’Cheyne
• The less we have, the less we have to worry about.  C.E. Smith
• Obedience brings God's blessings.
• Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber. E.M. Bounds
• He cannot have taught us to trust in His name, and thus far have brought us to put us to shame."  J. Hudson Taylor
• Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.  Old Adage
• You should always want the best man out there, even if it isn't you. 
• Faith to move mountains is the reward of those who have moved little hills. 
• Just because you have a right to do something doesn't make it right.
• It is a sad, sad thing to have to learn that the ones you thought would always have your back are the ones who will stab it at first opportunity.  C.E. Smith
• Don't absorb hurt and allow it to turn into baggage. 
• We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day—but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.  AW Tozer 
• We must pray daily for the teaching of the Holy Ghost, if we would make progress in the knowledge of divine things. Without Him, the mightiest intellect and the strongest reasoning powers will carry us but a little way.  JC Ryle
• God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for the broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.  Harry A. Ironside
• Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.  John Bunyan
• A regret is simply something we cannot forgive ourselves for.  C. E. Smith
• If no immediate choice has to be made, one should wait. The Lord orders our stops as well as our steps. When the time comes that a decision must be made, one can proceed in the direction that seems best. As you conscientiously seek His guidance, He will not let you make a wrong choice.  George Müller
• The old cross is a symbol of death. It stands for the abrupt, violent end of a human being. The man in Roman times who took up his cross and started down the road had already said good-bye to his friends. He was not coming back. He was going out to have it ended. The cross made no compromise, modified nothing, spared nothing; it slew all of the man, completely and for good. It did not try to keep on good terms with its victim. It struck cruel and hard, and when it had finished its work, the man was no more.  AW Tozer 
• Optimism is meditating upon the most hopeful aspects of any situation.  A.C.E. PACE (But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.  Romans 8:25)
• Life isn't a dress rehearsal.  God gave it to us to live, not to hoard. 
• Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down. RA Torrey
• God looking at Jesus on the cross was like looking in the mirror and seeing Himself a sinner. 
• To do much, one must be organized. 
• We rise by lifting others.  Robert Ingersoll
• Nothing is impossible with God, and even the word impossible says I'm possible.
• "To you, it's never happened yet.  To Me, it's as looking at history.  There isn't one of your days I haven't seen."  7/13/2019
• You lose your shield, you lose your faith; you lose your faith, you lose your shield. 
• People who judge others rely on guilt—it keeps them from having to deal with their own feelings of guilt.  Michael Landon
• Life is an adventure.  God is my tour guide.  C.E. Smith
• When it comes to de-cluttering - If they are all the same, one is the aim.
• If you are not meeting the devil head on, then you're going in the same direction. Billy Sunday 
• Just because things aren't going the way you planned doesn't mean they're not going the way they should.
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• The more you have, the more occupied you are. The less you have, the more free you are. Teresa of Calcutta 
• "If you will be perfect, go and sell what you have and come and follow Me."  Jesus Christ
• God wants you to have the best.  Will you leave the choice to Him?
• He who has the "why" to live can endure the "how."
• If you possess something you can't give away, then you don't possess it—it possesses you. Frank Sinatra
• Freedom lies in being bold. 
• Fear of the future and mourning over the past can ruin now.  We can't change the past.  We can't control the future.  So, let it go, stop worrying, and cherish this moment.  It is all you have.  C.E. Smith
• Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.
• Change is not easy, but sometimes it is required.  When a big wind comes, a tree must bend, or it will be plucked up by the roots.
• I have never thought it necessary to save for the future or look out for myself or my family except that we trust God. So, when we see someone in need, an old woman, a sick person, or a helpless infant– I freely give whatever I have at the time. I know that later, when I am in need, God will provide for me. I don’t need to look out for myself in any way other than to trust in Him. George Mueller 
• It's important not to define yourself by what you do, but who you are.
• Silence in the face of evil is itself evil:  God will not hold us guiltless.  Not to speak is to speak.  Not to act is to act.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Please grant me the insight to seek only what I need. 
• When it comes to healing, we should never have to endure a spiritual and mental scourging, for Jesus has already endured the physical scourging.  Zachary W. Smith
• God’s promises are true, whether we believe them or not. C.E. Smith 
• Divine intervention does not set you up for failure.  S. Lucas
• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  William Arthur Ward
• Ministry could simply be about loving the person in front of you. Heidi Baker
• People with sharp tongues often end up cutting their own throats.
• We have nothing to fear for the future excepting we forget how God has led in the past. 
• If God has something better for us than what we are praying for, our prayers won't hinder it. Zachary Smith
• Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.  John Paton 
• The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love. Mother Teresa 
• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. Zig Ziglar 
• You reap what you sow: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.  Grant M. Bright
• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke 
• When following God's will, go with the flow of how He is directing your circumstances.  To resist it is a futile waste of energy.  If you really want His will to be done, surrender, and let Him work.
• I guess we never fully overcome the long-term effects of the blows we are dealt as children.  C.E.Smith
• People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. John Maxwell 
• Are the things you are living for, worth Christ dying for? Leonard Ravenhill
• If it's God's will then I have no reason to be troubled.  From movie about King David
• One, two, whatever you do; start it well, and carry it through.
• Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace; both put together make a very pretty face.
• Little strokes fell great oaks.
• No one is too small to be able to help a friend.
• Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
• Anger in its time and place, may assume a kind of grace; if it has some reason in it, and never lasts beyond a minute.
• What you would seem to be, be really.
• Of all the sayings in the world, the one to see you through, is never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you.
• He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
• Willful waste makes woeful want, and I may live to say, Oh! how I wish I had the bread that once I threw away!
• What a wicked web we weave when we set out to deceive!
• Familiarity breeds contempt.
• Every time we give up a part of our faith to try to fit in with the ways of the world, we lose it forever.  We lose a precious part of God's promise, sacrificed to the world, and the world will never give it back.  And someday when the world tells us we can no longer have our religion except where they say and God is driven from our schools and our government and our homes, then God's people can look back and know that our religion was not taken from us.  It was given up...handed over bit by bit until there was nothing left.  
• If Jesus were here on earth today, what on earth do you think He'd say?  Cheryl E. Smith
• God is winnowing our path sifting out the things satan tries to inject that are contrary to His Divine will.  Cheryl E. Smith
• Obedience to anyone other than God is sacrifice.  Zachary Smith 6-18-18
• When the Bible mentions the term "For His name's sake" it doesn't necessarily always mean that we have to do something like become a missionary to Africa.  It equally means that what He is calling us into is for OUR spiritual good and not always focused on others' well-being.  Kevin Smith
• Are you part of the inn crowd or the stable few?  We are all "innkeepers".  Will you take Jesus in tonight?
• Reputations are history in rumor form: you can change it. 
• Our loving Father prunes what chokes us.  Ruth Chou Simons
• Don't allow pride to stand in the way of God's provision.  Cheryl E. Smith
• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. 
• "The thing about you Christians is that you are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi 
• Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. Will Rogers 
• A man is as tall as the sum of his deeds. 
• Little worries are no big thing.  They're all little worries.
• The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. “If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,” Jesus said, “he will find his true self."  Elisabeth Elliot
• Evil thrives when good men do nothing. 
• Folks don't do their best at jobs they don't like.  Little House on the Prairie
• There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian. AW Tozer
• Always err on the side of flattery. 
• You can't learn talent. 
• "To walk away from the approval of man to gain My approval is one of the greatest sacrifices you could ever make." God to me 
• Cash you can spend; sentiment will buy you nothing. 
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  Melody Beattie
• Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. AM Royden 
• Nothing is stricter than a reformed reprobate.  Michael Landon on Little House on the Prairie Episode, "To See The World"
• Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary circumstance.
• The thing we would remember from meeting a truly gospel-humble person is how much they seemed to be totally interested in us. Because the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less. Tim Keller from his book "The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness" 
• Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet. 
• What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake? 
• Jesus first, Others first, Yourself last spells JOY. Amish Proverb 
• Into every life, a little rain must fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
• The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.
• There is no bottle deep enough to drown the sorrows of the human heart. Cheryl E. Smith 
• You never miss the water 'til the well runs dry. 
• No man knows what he can do until he is tested. 
• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 
• While we are busy teaching our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. 
• Happiness comes not from finding someone to live with, but finding someone you cannot live without. 
• Most things in life that seem really complicated are really pretty simple...you just have to take a closer look. 
• Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy. Louisa May Alcott 
• He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose Jim Elliot
• I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them. 
• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. John Piper 
• There is absolutely no substitute for this secret communion with God. The public Church services, or even the family altar, cannot take the place of the 'closet' prayer. We must deliberately seek to meet with God absolutely alone.  Gordon Cove 
• Work for the Lord. The pay is low, but the retirement benefits are out of this world. 
• Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. 
• Christians are the light of the world, but the switch has to be turned on. 
• If you were on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? 
• You always win a better response with love. Helen Hosier 
• Use for yourself little, but give to others much. Albert Einstein 
• Christian volunteers are good for nothing. 
• Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. Elisabeth Elliot 
• Jesus still makes house calls. 
• 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 been opened for us. Helen Keller 
• I was having a conversation with God, after feeling the pangs of seeing someone I love dearly being treated unfairly. "I can't stand injustice! Especially, if it is affecting someone I love", I ranted. God immediately replied, "Why do you think I had to turn away when My Son was on the cross? I was tempted to stop it." 
• Trying times are the times to try more faith. 
• A soul is seldom sold in one great auction.  Instead, it is bartered away in a thousand tiny trades.  Character is defined as what you do when you know you could get by with doing anything.  "Doc" ~ Busy Man Episode
• It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. Bruce Lee 
• If your trouble is long-standing, try kneeling. 
• The faith to move mountains is the reward of those who have moved little hills. 
• Hard working folks only smell bad to some folks who have nothing else to do but stick their noses in the air.  Michael Landon on Little House on the Prairie Episode, "The Richest Man in Walnut Grove"
• Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
• Thomas Watson
• The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance. Oswald Chambers
• Patience is a virtue that carries a lot of wait. 
• Triumph is umph added to try. 
• Welcome: You aren't too bad to come in or too good to stay out. 
• Come as you are, God will have you no other way. 
• Let the Son shine in. 
• Let gratitude be your attitude. 
• Everyone you meet today is on Heaven's Most Wanted list. Charles R. Swindoll 
• Life goes on.  The thing to do is to get busy for others.  The more you do, the less time you have to hurt.  Caroline Ingalls - Little House on the Prairie Season 6 Episode "He loves me, he loves me not, Part One"
• The only real mistake is one from which we learn nothing. John Powell 
• God's mark is on everything that obeys Him. Martin Luther 
• True peace is not the absence of war but the presence of God. Our Daily Bread 
• Forgiveness is man's deepest need and God's highest achievement. Horace Bushness 
• It scares me, but I don't let it stop me. 
• True friendship continues to grow - even over the longest distance. Bryce Timberlake 
• Encourage me, and I will not forget you. William Arthur Ward 
• When we pray, it is far more important to pray with a sense of the greatness of God than with a sense of the greatness of the problem. Evangeline Blood, Wycliffe Bible translator 
• A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing with God. 
• Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer; prayer driveth away trouble and perplexity. Melancthon 
• The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one that needs the least. 
• Speak kind words; hear kind echoes. 
• Prayer is the next best thing to being there. 
• The Christian is tallest when on his knees. 
• There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. French Proverb 
• I have more peace since they have turned against me than I did when they liked me. Praise God, the peace is worth it all. 3-2-2013 
• Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord. Harriet Beecher Stowe 
• "Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you.  True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile."  Mother Teresa of Calcutta
• Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself. C.H.Spurgeon 
• As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible. Ruth Bell Graham 
• Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.John Knox 
• Sometimes God answers our prayers ahead of time. C. E. Smith 
• True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. C.S. Lewis 
• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot 
• I cannot change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. 
• Feed your faith, and your doubts will starve. 
• A friend's feet may leave your home, but never your heart. American Proverb 
• Sin would be less attractive, and there would be a great reduction in it being committed, if the wages were paid immediately. 
• A family altar can alter a family. 
• To be almost saved is to be totally lost. 
• God doesn't always require the sacrifices we are willing to make. Think of Abraham. 7/15/13 
• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain 
• All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller 
• You alone can do it, but you can't do it alone. 
• Read the Bible - prevent truth decay. 
• He said, "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much. Amy Carmichael 
• The one thing we most urgently need is a deeper knowledge of God. We need to know God better. D. A. Carson 
• Not every thought in your mind is one that God has placed there. 
• You can't break God's promises by leaning on them. 
• Faith is to the soul what a mainspring is to a watch. 
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes 
• Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons - but they are helpless against our prayers. J. Sidlow Baxter 
• Do not take counsel of your fears. 
• Failure is never final. 
• Thank God our salvation doesn't depend upon my frail hold of Him but on His almighty grasp on us. - Dr Martin Lloyd Jones
• The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.
• When Mother Theresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She replied, "Go home and love your family." 
• The grass is never greener on the other side; the grass is greener where you water it.
• It is from adversity that strength is born. 
• We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. A.W. Tozer 
• True wealth is who you are, not what you have. 
• You master your enemies not by force, but by forgiveness.
• The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lords service. George Muller
• You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. John Bunyan 
• The vigor of our Spiritual Life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.  George Müller
• Love lights more fires that hate can extinguish. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox 
• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates 
• The heart sees better than the eye. Jewish Proverb 
• Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.
• The road to a friend's house is never long. Danish Proverb 
• To be bitter is to waste precious moments of a life that's too short already. 
• Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. Dorothy Parker 
• Being offended is a choice. You get to decide how you react to the wrongdoing of others. Michael Hyatt 
• You will find the courage to change once the pain of remaining the same becomes too great.
• A foreigner is a friend I've yet to meet. Pearl Buck 
• "One thing we know for sure is that things are gonna change.  I guess the trick is knowing how to stay tethered to your anchor yet still allow yourself to cut loose and ride the waves."  Doc~ "The Commercial" Episode ~ Season Two
• "Sometimes we get so caught up in who we were that we can't appreciate (we lose sight of) what we've become."  Doc~"The Commercial" Episode ~ Season Two
• "When I was young and had misbehaved, my Daddy used to tell me that a tree would grow in whatever direction its young twig was bent and how it was necessary to correct a child’s errant behavior and “straighten” it when it was bending in the wrong direction. Oh, it helped me to understand and has remained with me all throughout life! As a child is taught during those young, formative years, so it is likely to grow and remain."  Cheryl Smith 
• Have fun in the Son...you won't burn. 
• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. 
• If we, as parents, are too busy to listen to our children, how then can they understand a God Who hears? V. Gilbert Beers 
• The past steps on the heels of the present. 
• The more you have, the more you have to lose.  Little House on the Prairie Season 2 Episode - "Going Home"
• Out of a very intimate acquaintance with DL Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.  RA Torrey
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt 
• Humble pie is bitter, but the aftertaste is sweet. - Cheryl E. Smith 
• A passion for the cross brings compassion for the lost. 
• No light shines brighter than the Son. 
• Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light. V. Raymond Edman 
• Let go, and let God. 
• If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.  Dorothy Law Nolte 
• Heaven knows when you were here last. (church sign) 
• Live near to God, and all things will appear little to you in comparison with eternal realities. Robert Murray McCheyne 
• God uses the insignificant to accomplish the impossible. 
• Long-standing problem? Try kneeling. 
• Its not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. Mother Teresa 
• Friendships and families are like fudge - best with a few nuts. 
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill 
• God gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him. 
• The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. CS Lewis 
• If God is your co-pilot, switch seats. 
• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. Samuel Chadwick
• The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends. Anne S. Eaton 
• Where there's a prayer, there's a way. 
• Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Mother Teresa 
• Integrity is shown when no one is looking. 
• God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but He expects us to do the baking. 
• Heaven is real...do you have reservations? 
• Beware of half-truths...for the half you believe in may be the wrong half. 
• A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men. 
• Leonard Ravenhill
• If you don't go into the kitchen, you won't get burnt, but you will go hungry. 
• Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. 
• Be the soul support of your children. 
• Wearing your halo too tight also gives others a headache. 
• A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow. Mary Cholmondeley 
• Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point. 
• Whatever it took, He did; whatever He asks, I will. 
• Worry ends where faith begins. 
• Prayer should be the first resource, not the last resort. 
• To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope 
• We all have enough strength to bear someone else's burden. 
• Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. Wayne Dyer 
• Being in the center of God's will doesn't mean you won't be fought. 1-31-2012 
• Children always listen better when you whisper. 
• A man's reach should exceed his grasp. Robert Browning 
• God never promised it would be easy, but He did promise it would be worth it. 
• In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment. Wilferd A. Peterson 
• When you throw mud at someone, you're the one losing ground. 
• Blowing out the other person's candle won't make yours any brighter. 
• When a person has a pet peeve, it's amazing how often he pets it. 
• When it comes to doing good to others, some people will stop at nothing. 
• Compassion is someone else's pain in your heart. 
• Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. 
• God's work done in God's way never lacks God's supplies. 
• The heart that gives...gathers. Hannah Moore 
• No man stumbles when he is on his knees. 
• Service is not spelled "s-e-r-v-e u-s". 
• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. Abraham Lincoln 
• Relationships are like tennis; if you serve well, you rarely lose. Taylor Morgan 
• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Elizabeth Bibesco 
• You can't hide from God from missing church. 
• Home is the place where the great are small and the small are great. Glen Wheeler 
• Thank God for what you have; trust God for what you need. 
• Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Charles H. Spurgeon 
• A smile adds to your faith value. 
• Forgiveness happens when you let tenderness move in.  Ruth Chou Simons
• When there seems no way out, let God in. 
• When the outlook is bad, try the uplook. 
• Joy always grows best in the soil of thankfulness. 
• Directions to Heaven: Turn right, and keep straight. 
• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. 
• If God seems far away, who moved? 
• When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay with us and they would not find themselves out of their element. Charles H. Spurgeon 
• "To you, it's never happened yet.  To Me, it's as looking at history.  There isn't one of your days I haven't seen."  God to me, in a dark, uncertain battle, July 2019
• If you think this matter is hopeless, then I can only surmise that you believe God has no control over it. Tracie Peterson 
• Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. St. Augustine 
• Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next. Elisabeth Elliot
• Men give advice; God gives guidance. Leonard Ravenhill 
• God had an only Son, and He made Him a missionary. David Livingstone 
• The greatest sermon ever preached came from an empty tomb. 
• He who fears God has nothing to fear. 
• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller 
• Even a small star shines in the darkness. 
• We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. George M. Adams 
• There is no right way to do the wrong thing. 
• What I am to be, I am becoming. 
• God is not permissive. If He were, we would have given "the ten suggestions." 
• The ten commandments are not multiple choice. 
• Form good habits...they are just as hard to break as bad ones. 
• Christians aren't perfect...just forgiven. 
• Most people prefer sermons that go over their heads and hit their neighbors. 
• All I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother. Abraham Lincoln 
• A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
• Reputation is what people think you to be; character is what God knows you to be. 
• In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. Sir Isaac Newton 
• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang 
• The man who walks with God always gets to his destination. Henrietta Mears 
• He who abandons himself to God will never be abandoned by God. 
• When God is going to do a wonderful thing, He begins with a difficulty. When He is going to do a very wonderful thing, He begins with an impossibility. Charles Inwood 
• Someone can be happier in a one-room shack with someone they love than in a palace with someone they don't.  Michael Landon - Little House on the Prairie Season 6 Episode "Whatever Happened to the Class of '56?"
• What I must do, and not what people think, is all that concerns me. 
• Charity sees the condition, not the cause. 
• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Henry Home 
• Man loves us because of; God loves us in spite of.
•  Real freedom is saying “NO” without giving a reason. Amit Kalantri 
• A closed heart can only be opened from the inside.
•  I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do. Edward Everett Hale
• A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to come unraveled. 
• A Bible that is falling apart belongs to a person who isn't. 
• He who is born of God is certain to resemble his Father. 
• God bless you: it's nothing to sneeze at. 
• Seven days without prayer makes one weak. 
• If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left. Albert Einstein 
• If God brings you to it, He'll bring you through it. 
• You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Amy Carmichael 
• Remember not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin 
• The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to Him. Thomas Merton 
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop 
• God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. 
• In His plans for friends, God often paints way outside the lines. Joy MacKenzie 
• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson 
• Christian character is forged in the crucible of pain. 
• A mother understands what a child does not say. Jewish Proverb 
• The Lord can do great things through those who don't care who gets the credit. Helen Pearson 
• Six "D's" for successful Christian living: Desire, Dedication, Diligence, Determination, Devotion, and Discipline. Keep the "D's" forefront in your mind and apply them continually. If one is lacking, fortify it the minute you identify the lack. Cheryl E. Smith 
• Sin resisted tempts no longer. 
• When satan knocks at your door, ask Jesus to answer it. 
• I did so much for so many with nothing in return but it pleased My Father and He gave Me everything.  Dear Jesus spoke this to me - 1/2/2019
• I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. Syrus 
• Charity is love in work gloves. 
• God plus one equals a majority. 
• Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. Lady Bird Johnson 
• Children are the hands by which we take hold of Heaven. Henry Ward Beecher 
• God always sends His staff with His rod. 
• It is no small thing to be a friend to God. 
• "I can forgive, but I can not forget" is only a way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to like a canceled note - torn in two and burned up so that it can never be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher 
• Give all God asks; take all He promises. 
• God said in the Bible "Do not fear" 365 times - one for each day of the year. 
• Two men looked out through prison bars; one saw mud, the other saw stars. 
• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
• "Mercy means I am so deeply grateful for the forgiveness I have received that I cannot help offering you the same. " Paul Tripp
• Those who never learn to laugh at themselves miss many opportunities to be amused. 
• All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 
• Differences have nothing to do with love. 
• Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field since the payment is pure love. Mildred B. Vermont 
• Sometimes the unexpected is what gives us the most...teaches us the sweetest lessons of all. 
• Pride is a foolish man's burden. 
• Stop asking, "Why me?", and start asking, "What am I gonna do about it?" 
• Children need love especially when they don't deserve it. Harold S. Hulbert 
• Do not lift the load, unless you are prepared to carry it the distance. 
• Our capacity to individually survive and collectively thrive hinges on our ability to provide assistance to each other and accept occasional assistance in return. 
• A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. 
• Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. 
• If you have no prayer life yourself, it is rather a useless gesture to make your child say his prayers every night. Peter Marshall 
• We never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace. Peggy Tabor Millin 
• I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died. Keith Miller 
• It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. A. W. Tozer 
• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes 
• The gate to wisdom is being able to say "I don't know." 
• My biggest regrets are not the things I did, but rather the things I did not do. 
• I shall pass this way but once. Therefore, any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. 
• I remember my mother's prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln 
• The master's approval is the servant's best wages. 
• Meekness isn't weakness.  It's power under control.  Ruth Chou Simons
• The set of the sail, not the gale, determines how we go. 
• Do what you can do, and God will do what you can't. 
• A Scripture a day keeps the devil away. 
• Look around you, and be distressed. Look within you, and be depressed. Look to Jesus, and be at rest. 
• Lessons are better caught than taught. 
• Wisdom is knowledge put to work. 
• My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." Pablo Picasso 
• Most saw Goliath as too big to kill; David saw him as too big to miss. 
• The problem isn't the problem, but what we think about the problem. 
• Daily prayers will diminish your cares. Betty Mills 
• Many a man has kept straight because his mother bent her knees. Glen Wheeler 
• Christians can't lose for winning. 
• Tough times never last; tough people do. Robert Schuller 
• The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one. Elbert Hubbard 
• There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big. John Maxwell 
• The epitaph on a negative person's headstone should read, "I expected this." 
• A sweater is a garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly. Barbara Johnson 
• Positive thinking will not always change our circumstances, but it will always change us. 
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Walt Emerson 
• Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. John Maxwell 
• As parents, we never stand so tall as when we stoop to help our children. Dr. Anthony P. Witham 
• A good laugh is sunshine in a house. Thackeray 
• Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers. 
• We cannot lead anyone else further than we have been ourselves. John Maxwell 
• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams 
• 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 
• You cannot put dirt into a well and produce clean water. 
• Children have more need of models than of critics. Joseph Joubert 
• Live your life so that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral. 
• We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tire in the trunk and start seeing it as the steering wheel. 
• It has been said that the greatest men have the greatest faults and failings, just as the tallest men cast the longest shadows. 
• You will find the courage to change once the pain of remaining the same becomes too great.
• A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. St. Basil 
• I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe. Smith Wigglesworth 
• The Holy Spirit lifts us up with prayers we don't even know how to pray.  Ruth Chou Simons
• When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.  Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• Don't spend six days sowing wild oats, then go to church and pray for a crop failure. 
• We can only be used by God after first being willing to be used by people. Cheryl E. Smith 
• Believe your beliefs. Doubt your doubts. F.F. Bosworth 
• Leaders must be willing to be led. 
• Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times. Beverly LaHaye 
• Making it fun will get the job done. 
• The wildflowers that line the streams of the canyon display God's provision.  Ruth Chou Simons
• God is never late; so, my soul, wait. 
• Enough is as good as a feast. Matthew Henry
• God didn't promise an easy passage, but a safe landing. 
• My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life. John Wesley 
• I am not everyone, but I am someone. I cannot do all things, but I can do something. 
• Great men are those who find out that what they ought to do and what they want to do are the same thing. 
• Never complain about what you permit. 
• Choices have consequences. 
• There must be a Calvary before there is a resurrection. 
• When you cast your bread upon the water, you never know how it will be returned to you. 
• God's promises are guaranteed for eternity. 
• Lost time is never found. 
• Forbidden fruit creates many jams. 
• There will be no reduction in the wages of sin. 
• When trouble grows, true character shows. 
• Gossip the gospel. 
• God never tires of hearing us pray. 
• The best things in life are not things. 
• It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny. 
• It didn't come to stay; it came to pass. 
• Don't be a victim of circumstances; be a victor of circumstances. 
• Fasting is God's testing ground and healing ground. 
• The heart that gives, gathers. 
• Burn brightly without burning out. Richard Biggs 
• Those who can, do.  Those who can't, shouldn't.  Doc Cassidy
• Throw your heart over the fence, and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale 
• A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. 
• Don't look where you fell, but where you slipped. 
• Look at life through the windshield, not through the rear-view mirror. 
• People may doubt what you say, but they believe what you do. 
• Failure is not falling down; it is staying down. 
• The more completely we die to self, the more completely we can live. 
• The Master of all became servant of all. 
• It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. Laura Ingalls Wilder 
• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life. God gave me life that I might enjoy all things. 
• Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. 
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller 
• I do not ask to see the distant scenes: one step enough for me. 
• Motivation is the key to inspiration. 
• We can live free from sin by having power and authority over it. 
• Tact is the unspoken part of what you think. 
• God feeds the birds, but He doesn't put it in their nest. 
• Jesus has power for us, but we must come under His authority to obtain it. 
• This too shall pass. Abraham Lincoln 
• Write what you know; write what you believe in. Herein lies writing's driving passion. 
• Praying for a friend is a beautiful way to share the love of Christ. Willie Murphy 
• Want God's help fast? Fast. Kevin J. Smith 
• God still speaks to those who listen. 
• God doesn't call us to be lawyers or judges, but witnesses.
• Her heart should be so close to God that he has to go through Him to get to her.
• We can experience no true peace when we are at war with God.  Ruth Chou Simons 
• Preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary. 
• If you stay ready to serve God, you will stay ready to die. 
• Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation. Darrell Johnson 
• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it and not the length. 
• We mutter and sputter, we fume and we spurt; we mumble and grumble, our feelings get hurt. We can't understand things, our vision grows dim; when all that we need is, a moment with Him. Author unknown 
• If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified. Oswald Chambers 
• Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises being to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Listen for the inward Voice till you learn to recognize it. Give yourself to God and then be what and who you are without regard to what others think. Learn to pray inwardly every moment. A.W. Tozer 
• A Christian that will move the world is a Christian that will not let the world move them. 
• Only God Who has prepared Heaven for man can prepare man for Heaven. 
• God's tape measure goes around the heart and not the head. 
• Our trials may seem unreasonable, but they are not without reason. Chuck Swindoll 
• Don't let your past dictate your future. Chuck Swindoll 
• If I was the only view of Jesus the world would ever see, what kind of a person would they think Him to be? Cheryl E. Smith 
• If you don't care who gets credit, it's amazing how much you can get done. Ronald Reagan 
• The largest room in the world is the room for improvement. 
• Since Christ is the way, why waste time traveling some other way? 
• Success comes in cans; failure comes in can'ts. 
• A Bible that is falling apart usually has an owner who isn't. 
• Imagination is the biggest nation in the world. 
• Enjoy the little things in life...one day you will look back and realize they were the big things. 
• Mothers of little boys work from son up to son down. 
• A person can't deny their feelings.  Just have to wait them out.  Things have a way of getting better once they get as bad as they can get.  Michael Landon on Little House on the Prairie - Season Seven - Episode "I Do, Again"
• One hundred years from now...it won't matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank, nor what my clothes looked like, but the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child. 
• Don't tell God how big your storm is. Tell your storm how big God is. 
• Live the life you love. 
• I believe...in the sun even when it isn't shining, in love even when I cannot feel it, in God even when He is silent. 
• We don't get to go back and look at the road we didn't take. 
• If not us, who? If not now, when? Ronald Reagan 
• For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• A man's reach should exceed his grasp...Robert Browning 
• To go too far is as bad as to fall short. 
• The Kingdom of God is bringing what is up there down here. Maybe the way to do that is to worry less about where we can step up & lead and more about where we can step down & serve. 
• When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me." Erma Bombeck 
• The least said is the easiest mended. 
• God's resources are equal to His requirements. 
• Eternity is too long to be wrong. 
• A good example preaches a powerful sermon. 
• Pity wears off pretty quick and it's a poor substitute for love.  Little House on the Prairie
• Life is fragile; handle it with prayer. 
• God's answers are wiser than our prayers. 
• God never made a promise that is too good to be true. 
• Opportunity may knock once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. 
• It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. 
• Be to others kind and true, as you would have them be to you. 
• Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. 
• Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. 
• If you never love someone, you never have to worry about that person hurting you.  Friends and loved ones are always the ones to give you joy and sorrow.  Michael Landon on Little House on the Prairie
• We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Theresa 
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. 
• When feeling sheepish, talk to the Shepherd. 
• The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible...each new day. Corrie Ten Boom 
• Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. 
• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. 
• The great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man. 
• Be the change you want to see in the world. Gandhi
• Give God what's right, not what's left. 
• Man's way leads to a hopeless end; God's way leads to an endless hope. 
• Don't put a question mark where God puts a period. 
• Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church. 
• When God ordains, He sustains. 
• Exercise daily - walk with the Lord. 
• Never give the devil a ride - he will always want to drive. 
• Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it. 
• He who angers you controls you. 
• Give satan an inch, and he'll be a ruler. 
• God doesn't call the qualified; He qualifies the called. 
• The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. 
• How many times do we miss God's blessings, because they are not packaged as we expected? 
• You will never be in the wrong place if you are in the center of God's will. 
• Faith is not believing God can; it is knowing He will. 
• Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. 
• Dog spelled backward is still man's best Friend. 
• If your life depended on knowing the Bible, how long would you last? 
• Never underestimate Jesus; He'll prove you wrong every time. 
• Don't put people down, unless it is on your prayer list. 
• When satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. 
• A good attitude begins with gratitude. 
• Fear not tomorrow; God is already there. 
• The only One Who can satisfy the human heart is the One Who made it. 
• Trust an unknown future to an all-knowing God. 
• Never try to carry tomorrow's burdens with today's grace. 
• Sermons are better preached with lives than lips. 
• A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. 
• The chain of a mother's prayer links her child to God. 
• Faith keeps the one who keeps the faith. 
• Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. 
• Live today like it is your very last day. 
• Those who stand best kneel most. 
• What we weave in time we'll wear in eternity. 
• When faith goes to market, it always takes a basket. 
• Little faith will bring your souls to Heaven; great faith will bring Heaven to your souls. Charles H. Spurgeon 
• Example is a language anyone can read. 
• In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity. 
• Worry pulls tomorrow's clouds over today's sunshine. 
• God didn't call us to be successful, just faithful. Mother Teresa 
• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
• Christians always win in the end. 
• Hating others doesn't hurt them at all. It hurts you. 
• Our hearts are at rest when we are at rest in God. Augustine
• I don't want to have anything I have to worry about losing all the time.  Adapted from Little House on the Prairie Season 8, "A Christmas They Never Forgot"
• Relying on God has to start all over every day as if nothing has yet been done. CS Lewis 
• Life isn't about living on earth forever; it's about making the journey really count. 
• God reserves the right to use people who disagree with me. 
• Grace - getting what we don't deserve. Mercy - not getting what we deserve. 
• The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. 
• Human nature seems to need suffering to fit it for being a blessing to the world. 
• We have heard of many people who trust God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much? J. Hudson Taylor 
• If the twig is bent, the tree will never grow straight. 
• No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart. Alan Redpath 
• God is willing to make the best of us, but we have to be willing to give Him the worst of us. 
• Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all. St. Augustine 
• We are not placed on this earth to see through each other, but to see each other through. William M. Kinnaird 
• Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. 
• Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time. An old German motto 
• So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little. Dr. Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision 
• Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest? Oswald Chambers 
• Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure. Erwin W. Lutzer 
• When God forgives, He forgets. He buries our sins in the sea and puts a sign on the bank saying, "No Fishing Allowed." Corrie Ten Boom 
• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging an injury makes you even with him; forgiving an injury sets you above him. 
• Forgiveness is the antiseptic for our emotional wounds. Floyd McClung, Jr. 
• Man's extremity is God's opportunity. Matthew Henry 
• Impossible is one of God's favorite words. Max Lucado 
• History is His story. James Packer 
• Whether we preach, pray, write, do business, travel, take care of children or administer the government - whatever we do - our whole life and influence should be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. Charles G. Finney 
• Kind words are the music of the world. Frederick William Faber 
• The nicest thing we can do for our Heavenly Father, is to be kind to one of His children. St. Teresa of Avila 
• 'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ: Christ took the kindness and forgave the thief. Robert Browning 
• You can't speak a kind word too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Our Daily Bread 
• Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence. James Johnson 
• Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian. Matthew Henry 
• It is good to remember that the tea kettle, although up to its neck in hot water, continues to sing. 
• Our position in life is not as important as our disposition. 
• Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. Charles H. Spurgeon 
• If you look at the world you’ll be distressed. If you look within you’ll be depressed. If you look to Christ you’ll be at rest. Corrie Ten Boom
• The Bible says "feed the sheep", not "beat the sheep". 
• The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher. Charles Spurgeon 
• The true character of ministry is a servant's heart. Harold Warner 
• I have found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propels us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better. T.D. Jakes 
• Christ’s sheep will not be offended by Christ’s voice. C.H. Spurgeon
• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and forever remove all doubt. 
• I spend one hour a day with God, and I don't do anything in the 23 that would hinder the one. Mother Theresa
• Small men never think they're small; great men never think they're great. 
• Of all the words of tongue and pen, the worst of these, "what could have been." 
• The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. Socrates 
• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he would never be found out. Thomas Macauley 
• If you get too busy serving God, you will be too busy to sin. Chuck Baker 
• All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull, we only pray as well as we live. A. W. Tozer 
• Children are not a distraction from more important work. They ARE the most important work. C. S. Lewis
• Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. 
• Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand. Horace 
• The chains of sin are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Tom Drout 
• One man working with you is worth a dozen men working for you. Herman M. Koelliker 
• Time flies. It's up to you to navigate. Robert Orben 
• Our days are identical suitcases - all the same size - but some people can pack more into them than others. 
• If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin 
• If you keep your nose to the grindstone rough and hold it there long enough, you soon will say there's no such thing as a babbling brook or birds that sing; these three things will all your life compose - just you, the stone, and a ground down nose. 
• God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
• There's a courage greater than the fear of others' opinions. 
• God gives greater challenges to those with the most character. Count this as a compliment. 
• You are young for a short time, but you can be immature indefinitely. 
• Let me preach as a dying man to dying men; let me preach as if I'll never preach again. 
• You can have a lot of degrees, but no temperature. 
• God wants full custody, not a weekend visit. 
• We stand tallest when we stoop to help others. 
• When fear knocks on the door, send faith to answer. 
• No amount of money can make up for lost time.  Doc episode "Swing Shift"
• There are always two sides on the streets of conflict. 
• That leaden night on which He was betrayed, The One by Whom the universe was made; Reclined with friends, took bread, and stretched a hand, Of love to him who His demise had planned. Gustafson 
• God's wheels grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. 
• You can live a lie, but you cannot escape the truth. 
• It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example. Confucius 
• Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll need them on your way down. 
• While seeking revenge, dig two graves...one for yourself. 
• Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to act while facing it. 
• You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was. 
• Seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. 
• Whatever you focus upon, increases. 
• I choose to suffer a wrong than to do a wrong. 
• A woman's heart ought to be so hidden in Christ that a man would have to seek Him first to find her. 
• Your actions always follow your beliefs. 
• If it's to be, it's up to me. 
• Like attracts like. So give generously and boldly with an attitude of gratitude and your receiving will be the same. 
• If you need something, give some of it away. 
• The best vitamin for a Christian is B1. 
• Aspire to inspire before you expire. 
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. 
• Failure to prepare is preparing for failure. K.C. Rich 
• The one who will put you up the highest will drop you the hardest. Helen M. Underdown 
• An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey. Lewis F. Powell 
• A rising tide floats all ships. 
• Only one life, ‘twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last. Charles Thomas Studd
• Just live your life as it is.  Don't keep waiting for it to be as it was (or as you wish it would be - this part added by K.Smith)  Little House on the Prairie, Season 7, Episode - "Dear Albert, I'll Miss You"
• Example is a language anyone can read. 
• Life's lessons are learned, one mistake at a time. 
• We are not put on this earth to see through each other, but rather to see each other through. 
• If we are receiving ill-treatment, could we be reaping ill treatment we have inflicted on others? 
• Sometimes God takes our mess and makes it our message. 
• If you want to save the world, go home and serve your family. Mother Theresa
• Jesus told Peter to feed His sheep, not beat His sheep. 
• God can find your biggest glory in what you may think is your biggest downfall. 
• Don't ever throw a lion into a den with a praying man! 
• Fear will quench your faith; faith will quench your fears. 
• Work your schedule around God, don't try to work Him into your schedule. 
• I have personally never seen a bird sitting on a tree branch having a nervous breakdown from worry! 
• You can make all the plans you want. But God has made His, and He doesn't feel the need to check in with you. 
• The tongue is in a wet place and is prone to slip. 
• The same God Who brought Adam into the world without woman could bring Christ into the world without man. (I found this written in the front of my Mimmie's Bible.) 
• The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln 
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa 
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill 
• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. George Washington 
• We gain strength and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face....we must do that which we think we cannot. Eleanor Roosevelt 
• A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Mahatma Gandhi 
• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. Albert Einstein 
• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer 
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller 
• You are just a tool in the Carpenter's toolbox. Let the Carpenter do the work. Zachary W. Smith 
• It's not where you're at. It's who you're with. C.E. Smith 
• While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. 
• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 
• "I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott 
• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple, and useful life. Booker T. Washington 
• The secret of life is not finding someone to live with it's finding someone you can't live without. 
• God helps the poor: He protects them from expensive sins." Yiddish Saying 
• By far the best proof is experience. Francis Bacon 
• The bigger the impossibility, the greater the miracle. C. E. Smith 
• No man knows what he can do until he is tested. 
• You never miss the water 'til the well runs dry. 
• The last important point for the strengthening of our faith is, that we let God work for us, when the hour of the trial of our faith comes, and do not work a deliverance of our own. Wherever God has given faith, it is given,among other reasons, for the very reason of being tried. George Muller
• It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is. John K. Galbraith 
• If you would conquer a lie, tell the truth. 
• In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who cares more.
• God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie 
• One can never predict when God will intervene. 
• "Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile." Wilfred T. Grenfell 
• God hears your thoughts as well as your voice. 
• It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you. Billy Sunday 
• The Holy Spirit is Its Own witness in a soul. William A. McCoy 
• God will never let an honest soul be deceived. William A. McCoy 
• A man's word is his bond. William A. McCoy 
• If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. Brendan Francis 
• Life can only be understood backward but must be lived forward. Soren Kierkegaard 
• You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. Stephen Covey 
• If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. Thomas Edison 
• Only dead fish goes with the flow. The living one goes against it. 
• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens
• "One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." Archibald Rutledge 
• Good advice is God-advice. 
• The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson 
• We have nothing to fear for the future except we forget how God has led us in the past. Ellen White
• Be the difference you want to see in the world. Gandhi 
• Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 
• Shed toxic relationships....just let them go...and move on. Don't look back. 
• "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• "The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it." Paul Scherber 
• Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
• Divine retribution is slow but certain. 
• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
• People who are successful in life manage the hump and do not let the hump manage them. There will always be a hump. Ed Wilson 
• Evil is devil minus the "d". C. E. Smith 
• If we are receiving ill-treatment, could we be reaping ill treatment we have inflicted upon others? A pastor who hears someone has been talking about him in an unkind or judgmental way asks himself, "Are they sowing, or am I reaping?" Many times we are reaping in our lives what we have previously sown into the life of another. 
• Even if I am not popular with everyone else, am I pleasing to God? That is all that matters. 
• Faith is calling things that are not as though they are. 
• Wives raise their sons to be the kind of husbands they wish they had. Ed Wilson 
• Our children pay a price for our disobedience. The children of the doubting children of Israel had to die in the wilderness because of their parents' failure to obey God. 
• Sometimes God takes our mess and makes it our message. 
• God can find your biggest glory in what you may think is your biggest downfall. 
• Don't ever throw a lion into a den with a praying man! 
• Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
• Work your schedule around God, don't try to work God into your schedule. 
• I have personally never seen a bird sitting on a tree branch having a nervous breakdown due to worry! 
• It is easier to preach ten sermons than to live one. 
• When you get to your wit's end, God lives there. 
• Some minds are like concrete...thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. 
• Are you standing on the promises or just sitting on the premises? 
• We are called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges. 
• The last ones on the ship will be the first ones off the ship when they hit bumpy waters. Sean Hannity 
• Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. 
• The best is the enemy of the good. Ed Wilson 
• Many people want to serve God...in an advisory capacity. 
• Don't try to change the message; let the message change you. 
• 1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given 
• My Father sent my older Brother to die for me. Ed Wilson 
• There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. So, don't worry about the people from your past. There is a reason they didn't make it to your future. 
• A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Laurence Housman 
• You can't go on preaching against the darkness until you've seen it in yourself first. Touched by an Angel 
• The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the bookcase. Charles Spurgeon
• In fair weather prepare for foul. Thomas Fuller 
• A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate. Rick Warren, God's Power To Change Your Life 
• "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." Cherie Carter-Scott 
• He who will not learn from the lessons of time is doomed to repeat them. 
• God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops. George Mueller 
• "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo 
• Man says, "Show me, and I'll trust you." God says, "Trust Me, and I'll show you." Unknown 
• Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. Childishness is characterized by self-centeredness. It is only the emotionally and spiritually mature who are able to lay down their life for others, those who are "masters of themselves that they might be the servants of others." Elisabeth Elliot