Previous Quotes of the Week

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Previous Quotes of the Week:

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
--Max De Pree

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."
--Louise Hay

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."
--Robert Collier

"If things go wrong, don't go with them."
--Roger Babson

"My greatest thought is my accountability to God."
--Daniel Webster

"When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them."
--Kenneth Copeland

"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do."
--David Wilkerson

"Little by little, one travels far."
--J. R. R. Tolkien

"I'll not alter the Word to fit my life; I'll alter my life to fit the Word."
--Kenneth Copeland

"Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue."
--St. Francis de Sales

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."
--C. S. Lewis

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
--James 1:27

"Never let yesterday use up today."
--Richard H. Nelson

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You are what you think about all day long."
--Dr. Robert Schuller

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today."
--Unknown

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
--Hannah More

"When you're through changing, you're through."
--Bruce Barton

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."
--Leonardo da Vinci

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
-- Jim Ryun

"A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude."
-- Earl Nightingale

"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"All appears to change when we change."
-- Henri-Frederic Amiel

"Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere."
-- Unknown

"More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world."
-- William Barclay

"Out of one hundred men, one will read the Bible, the other ninety-nine will read the Christian."
-- D. L. Moody

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
-- Dr. Seuss

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
-- Maria Robinson

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
-- Corrie Ten Boom

"When you're through changing, you're through."
-- Bruce Barton

"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world."
-- W. R. Wallace

"The hand that rocks the cradle usually is attached to someone who isn't getting enough sleep."
-- John Fiebig

"It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside."
-- Author Unknown

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
-- Roy Disney

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
-- Annie Dillard

"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future."
-- Marilyn Ferguson

"People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them."
-- C. Gene Wilkes

"Commendation heals; condemnation destroys."
-- Carl Jung

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-- Will Rogers

"Trust is built one block at a time, but when it is violated the entire wall comes crashing down."
-- David Branker

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"We are what we repeatedly do."
-- Aristotle

"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over the self."
-- Aristotle

"I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than I can by shouting at Him all night."
-- Smith Wigglesworth

"Character, not circumstance, makes the person."
-- Booker T. Washington

"A negative attitude is like a flat tire. You're not going far until you change it."
-- Unknown

"I am prepared to go anywhere, so long as it is forward."
-- David Livingstone

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do."
-- Dwight L. Moody

"God gave people a mouth that closes and ears that don't, which should tell us something."
-- Unknown

"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires."
-- James 1:19-20

"Experience is a hard teacher--first the test, then the lesson."
-- Unknown

"Tomorrow is just waiting to see what we say and do today."
-- Kenneth Copeland

"Obey today or sorrow tomorrow."
-- Kenneth Copeland

"Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion, everyone to his brother.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.
Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother.
-- Zechariah 7:9-10

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

"When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield. When we touch the divine and believe God, sin will drop off; disease will go; circumstances will change."
-- Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth on Spirit-Filled Living

The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.
-- Unknown

"If you want to change your life, start by changing your words."
-- Joel Osteen

"Jesus never knew a failure. He never met a sin that was too bad to forgive. He never met a sickness He couldn't heal. In essence, Jesus never met impossibility...He is in YOU."
-- T. L. Osborn

"I rejoiced with those who said to me, 'Let us go to the house of the LORD.'"
-- Psalm 122:1

"We need to treat unforgiveness just like any other sin, such as murder, adultery, or witchcraft. If we treat it like that, we won't flirt with it or harbor it as some so easily do. In fact, there are more scriptures in the New Testament that a believer who refuses to forgive will not be forgiven than a murderer or drunkard."
-- John Bevere

Whoever forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever keeps bringing up the issue separates the closest of friends.
-- Proverbs 17:9

"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn."
-- John Wesley

"Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
-- Luke 6:37, NIV

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
-- Chinese Proverb

"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."
-- Evelyn Underhill

"In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it."
-- Ivan Bloch

"Waste not time; for that's the stuff that life is made of."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
-- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it."
-- O. A. Battista

"Your own actions, fears, insecurities, and disobedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit can thwart the plan of God for your life!"
-- Rick Renner, Sparkling Gems from the Greek

"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."
-- Margaret Chase Smith

"It is impossible to learn what you think you already know."
-- Sherman Owens, from his book, What I Wish I Had Known 25 Years Ago

"Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you ... Love like that."
-- Ephesians 5:1-2 (MSG)

"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near."
-- Isaiah 55:6 (NIV)

"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry."
-- James 1:19 (NIV)

"Your life will follow your expectations. What you expect is what you will get."
-- Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now

"Leadership is found in becoming the servant of all."
-- Richard Foster

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it."
-- James 1:5
The Message Bible

"God is continually drawing us to Himself in everything we experience."
-- Gerard Hughes

"Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose--to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means."
-- Francis Schaeffer

"He became what we are that He might make us what He is."
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Bring forth fruit that is consistent with repentance--let your lives prove your change of heart."
-- Matthew 3:8

"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."
-- William Carey

"He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God."
-- Psalm 50:23

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.."
-- Victor Hugo

"What is morally wrong can never be politically right."
-- Lord Shaftesbury

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."
-- C. S. Lewis

"Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--you choose."
-- Proverbs 18:21
The Message Bible

"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
-- Francis Bacon

"If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves."
-- Unknown

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
-- C. H. Spurgeon

"There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel that way yourself."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU."
-- Unknown

"There's a high cost for low living."
-- Bobby Conners

"If you have been tempted with evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns."
-- Author Unknown

"You can't keep doing the same things and expect a different result. In other words, if you want something different, do something different."
-- Anonymous

"To believe God is to worship God."
-- Martin Luther

"When led by the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak."
-- Lewis Sperry Chafer

"Persecution for righteousness' sake is what every child of God must expect."
-- Charles Simeon

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians. Not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ."
-- Patrick Henry

"A fault, once denied, is twice committed."
-- Thomas Fuller

"Failure is not final unless you quit."
-- Unknown

"Some people read their Bible in Hebrew, some in Greek; I read mine in the Holy Ghost."
-- Smith Wigglesworth

"Some read the Bible to learn, and some read the Bible to hear from heaven."
-- Andrew Murray

"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'"
-- Oswald Chambers

"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use."
-- Anonymous

"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."
-- Ruth Graham

"Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out."
-- G. A. Studdert Kennedy

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even is everyone is for it."
-- William Penn

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
-- G. K. Chesterton

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain--and most fools do."
-- Dale Carnegie

"If I can't believe that the spacecraft I fly assembled itself, how can I believe that the universe assembled itself? I'm convinced only an intelligent God could have built a universe like this."
-- Jack Lousma, Astronaut

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight
of the shore."
-- Andre Gide

"Walking out the precepts and principles of God brings the promises. You can plead the promises, but if you violate the principles, they will not come to pass."
-- Paula White

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
-- Helen Keller

"God has given us two hands--one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for giving."
-- Billy Graham in "Friends"

"Be faithful in the little practices of love which will build in you the life of holiness and make you Christlike."
-- Mother Theresa

"A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs."
-- Calvin Miller in "A Hunger for the Holy"

"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer."
-- John Wesley

"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee."
-- William H. Walton

"Unless the gospel is preached with contemporary relevance it has not been preached."
-- Martin Luther

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble."
-- Rudyard Kipling

"Love ... is ever ready to believe the best of every person."
-- I Corinthians 13:7
Amplified Bible

"What you feed grows, and what you starve dies."
-- Anonymous

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
-- Francis Bacon

"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as in Christ God forgave you."
-- Ephesians 4:32
See Also:
Mark 11:25-26
Colossians 3:13

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
-- Epictetus
(55 AD - 135 AD)

"He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, he who rules his [own] spirit than he who takes a city."
-- Proverbs 16:32
Amplified Bible

"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"He becomes poor who works with a slack and idle hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich."
-- Proverbs 10:4

"Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, and the idle person shall suffer hunger."
-- Proverbs 19:15

"God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God."
-- 2 Corinthians 5:21
(Message Bible)

"It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people."
-- Hebrews 10:14
(Message Bible)

"A man is a slave to whatever has mastered him."
-- 2 Peter 2:19b

"Faith never remains the status quo--it'll either grow or go."
-- Charles Cowan

"Sense knowledge (based on what we can see, feel, touch, taste, and smell) cannot understand spiritual things. It will deny miracles, deny answers to prayer, and will deny the deity of Jesus, because sense knowledge cannot explain or understand the miraculous. The chief quest of sense knowledge has been for reality. Reality cannot be found by the senses. It is only discovered by the spirit."
-- E. W. Kenyon

"But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned."
-- 1 Corinthians 2:14

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
-- 2 Corinthians 4:18

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
– Walt Disney

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me..."
-- Psalm 23:4

"The Bible says, 'though I walk THROUGH the valley of the shadow of death'--it doesn't say to build a tent and stay there."
– Unknown

"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man."
-- Proverbs 6:10-11

"Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth."
– Proverbs 10:4 (See also: Proverbs 6:9, Proverbs 10:5, Proverbs 20:13)

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree."
– Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, John Murray, London, 1859

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.."
– Romans 1:18-20

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
– Gary Collins

"Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live!."
– Deuteronomy 30:19

"Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision. It is there that the day of the LORD will soon arrive."
– Joel 3:14

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you."
– Spanish Proverb

"Gossips can't keep secrets, so never confide in blabbermouths."
– Proverbs 20:19

"A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends."
– Proverbs 16:28
See also:
1 Timothy 5:13
Proverbs 11:13

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
– General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin."
– James 4:17

"Fear of failure is dangerous. If you let it dominate you, it will cause you to do the one thing that inevitably guarantees failure, and that's not attempting at all."
– Kenneth Copeland

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
-- Martha Washington

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

"As he thinks in his heart, so is he."
-- Proverbs 23:7a

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
– Winston Churchill

"Give away your life; you'll find life given back, but not merely given back--given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity."
-- Luke 6:38

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"
--Henry Ford

"'Can' can; 'can't' can't."
--Anonymous

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
--Philippians 4:13

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
--John C. Maxwell