Quotes

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“Remember, sinner, it is not your hold of Christ that saves you -- it is Christ.”

- C.H. Spurgeon

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“He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. ”

- John 7:18 (Revised Standard Version)

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“You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others.”

- Unknown

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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

- Michael Jordan

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“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

- George Herbert

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“He that lives in hope danceth without music.”

- George Herbert

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“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”

- Sam Ewing

[aka]

The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. 

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) 

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The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. 

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) 

I like that one. There seems to be a lot of that going around these days!!

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“Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.”

- Alister McGrath

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“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

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“I don't think anybody honors God as much as they should...Jesus is the only man who ever really honored God as he could and should. ”

- Rebecca St. James

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“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”

- Doug Larson

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“Hear me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him. ”

- Mark 7:14-15

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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ”

- Heber J. Grant

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“So-called aging is not the deterioration of life, but the deterioration of our faith, our enthusiasm, our will to progress.”

- Connie Fillmore

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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

- Carl Jung

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

- Helen Keller

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“Why did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”

- C.S. Lewis

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“It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. ”

- Jean N. Grou

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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is most important is invisible to the eye.”

- The Little Prince

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“Those who live ‘by the flesh’ experience God’s law as a burden, and indeed as a denial or at least a restriction of their own freedom.”

- John Paul II

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“A Hospital is no place to be sick.”

- --Samuel Goldwyn

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“The twelve days of Christmas come to an end on January 6, and the season of the Epiphany begins...Epiphany not only ends Christmas, it also fulfills it by celebrating the revelation of the Christ to the whole world...”

- Phyllis A. Tickle, "What the Heart Already Knows"

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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

- Mark Twain