Whatever Comes...

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

We Are Dying...

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it, I say! Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. ~ Pop Paul VI

True Measure...

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely not good. 

~ Ann Landers

Where Gladness and Hunger Meet

The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. ~ Frederick Buechner 

$Count the Cost$

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. 
~ Henry David Thoreau

Never Too Late...

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot

Outlast...

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ~ William James

Trust HIM

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

...in our pain...

God whispers to us in our pleasures speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ~ C.S. Lewis

Change It...

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

~ Maya Angelou

Deepest Regrets...

Say what you want to say when you have the feeling and the chance. My deepest regrets are the things I did not do, the opportunities missed and the things unsaid. ~ Jim Keller

Get Even...

The only people with whom you should try to get even with are those who have helped you. 

~ John E. Southard

Money...

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be 

transmuted into everlasting treasure. ~ A.W. Tozer

Come Alive!

Don't ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs 
is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman

Remember...

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

Strive to...

‎Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture. ~ J.C. Ryle

Eyes on God

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ~ Oswald Chambers

Awake...

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It's Universal...

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. ~ Alan Sachs

Security

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

In Crisis...

A community without Christ, is a community in crisis. 

~ Brian Kinnett

Obey HIM...

There’s a big difference between learning all Jesus commanded, and learning to obey all Jesus commanded. ~ Steve Childers

Modern Religion...

Modern religion focuses on filling churches with people. The true gospel emphasizes filling people with God. ~ A.W. Tozer

Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Modern Christians...

Modern Christians are so committed to their own personal peace and affluence that they never get to really know God. 

~ Francis Schaeffer

What Are You Waiting For?

What are we waiting for? Why on earth would we put off doing what needs to be done, saying what needs to be said, giving what needs to be given, or expressing what needs to be expressed? We really don't have forever. — P. Brown

Planning to Fail?

Failing to plan, is planning to fail. 

~ Benjamin Franklin

Look Into the Heart...

If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

Sacrifice...

Something happens whenever you sacrifice. 

~ T.D. Jakes 

HIS Peace

The peace we are looking for so desperately is found only by those submitted to God's government. 

~ Dudley Hall