"We live in a nation where we slaughter our children, and we act surprised when they slaughter each other…God help us. - Rev. Tim Percy at the funeral of Kayce Steger, Nichole Hadley, and Jessica James, who - after finishing a prayer meeting - were shot by a fellow Paducah, Ky., high school student." -- Youthworker, San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 6, 1998.
"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we wish." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, quoted in Good News (July/August 1994).
"Abigail Van Buren once wrote about a woman who listened to a mother verbally destroy her child. The woman told the mother, 'I'll give you a dollar for him.' Only then did the mother realize the value of her child." - R.J. Thesman in The Christian Leader (March 10, 1992).
"I've gone through three different abortions with girlfriends, and it really took a lot out of me. So I sang this to the child I never had." - Estranged Stone Temple Pilot singer Scott Weiland on 'Son,' a selection from his 12 Bar Blues solo album, Details, April 1998.
"President Reagan did what few presidents have done while in office. He wrote a full-length article for a journal of opinion (The Human Life Review). 'The real question is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.'" - President Ronald Reagan
"The horrible procedure is most common with triplets and more, but is sometimes used even to eliminate one of a pair of twins. Wall Street Journal reporter Barbara Carton last week described a true case of reducing triplets to twins: 'Dr. Evans hovers over the woman's belly with a foot-long needle and examines shadowy uterine images on the ultrasound scanner. He looks for a deformity that would make the selection easier, but finally he says: .'We don't see anything obviously wrong with any of them, so we're just debating which is easiest to get to'. He decides, then pierces her belly, guiding the needle until he punctures the chest cavity of one fetus. 'Perfect,' he whispers. He injects three cubic centimeters of potassium chloride. The fetus flails its arms and legs, then stops.' The typical excuse, believe it or not, is that it would be inhumane to run the statistical risks of a multiple pregnancy. Those risks are real, to be sure - but at their worst, hardly as terrifying for the baby as the altogether certain effect of the search and destroy mission so regularly employed. In fact, it's blatant selfishness - not humane generosity - that drives 'fetal reduction.' The Wall Street Journal writer suggests a telling question pondered by those who seek such destruction: 'What if you eliminate one or more fetuses, and then the others don't survive?'" -- Joel Belz, WORLD, December 6,1997
Abortion
"'You can't tell people for two or three generations, as even some theologians have, that truth is relative and that nothing is absolute-and then expect them to produce justice...You can't tell people that truth is relative and expect them to produce good government, worthwhile education, or honest business. So it's not just a little tinkering here and there that is necessary to get our confidence in the court systems back again...No system of any kind works when the people themselves have lost their way.'" -Joel Belz, World, October 14, 1995.
"Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. - Hunter S. Thompson
Absolutes
"May you live all the days of your life." - Jonathan Swift
"A university professor tells of being invited to speak at a military base one December and there meeting an unforgettable soldier named Ralph. Ralph had been sent to meet him at the airport, and after they had introduced themselves, they headed toward the baggage claim. As they walked down the concourse, Ralph kept disappearing. Once to help an older woman whose suitcase had fallen open. Once to lift two toddlers up to where they could see Santa Claus. And again to give directions to someone who was lost. Each time he I came back with a big smile on his face.
'Where did you learn to do that?' the professor asked.
'Do what?' Ralph said.
'Where did you learn to live like that?'
'Oh,' Ralph said, 'during the war, I guess.' Then he told the professor about his tour of duty in Vietmam, about how it was his job to clear mine fields, and how he watched his friends blow up before his eyes, one after another. 'I learned to live between steps,' he said. 'I never knew whether the next one would be my last, so I learned to get everything I could out of the moment between when I picked up my foot and when I put it down again. Every step I took was a whole new world, and I guess I've just been that way ever since.'"
"The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now." - Barbara Brown Taylor, Clarkesville, Georgia
Abundant Life
"Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." - anonymous
Accountability
"Adultery is something that shakes the roots of the family, which is why most people who attempted open marriage in the '60s and '70s came back to monogamy-for pragmatic reasons. I find myself in a situation where I would rather give up sexual freedom than give up trust." - Erica Jong, who wrote books in the '70s advocating sexual freedom (quoted in Citizen, Oct. 20, 1997, page 8)
Adultery
"God wants us to have purpose. We must be careful not to settle for ambition." - Max Anders
"Average people look forward to 'getting off.' Successful people look forward to 'getting on.'" - Jim Rohn, First Draft, April 1998
Ambition
"Many people literally stuff their anger-they keep it down by putting food on top of it. This process is similar to packing in wadding when loading a cannon - and the results can be just as explosive." - Love Hunger by F. Minirth
"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." - Phyllis Diller
"Every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - anonymous
"Anger. It can explode like an erupting volcano; it can also sizzle slowly, breeding bitterness and resentment. It's sometimes disguised through sarcasm, grudges, fearfulness, or rebellion, but the long-term effects are always predictable. Physical health, mental well-being, and interpersonal relationships begin to deteriorate when anger is continually handled in a spiritually destructive manner. The emotion of anger in itself is not sin, for God is righteously indignant over man's sin every day. But the snare of human rage manifests our selfishness." - anonymous
"I'm supposed to hate something, but I'm not sure what. I wasn't even here last year, and I'm mad. - Marty Carter, safety for the Chicago Bears, on their rivalry with the Green Bay Packers
"It is the great duty of all Christians to put off anger. It unfits for duty…a man cannot wrestle with God and wrangle with his neighbor at the same time. Short sins often cost us long and sad sorrows." - Philip Henry
"In a 1994 article, 'War's Lethal Leftovers Threaten Europeans,' Associated Press reporter Christopher Burns writes: 'The bombs of World War II are still killing in Europe. They turn up - and sometimes blow up - at construction sites, in fishing nets, or on beaches fifty years after the guns fell silent. 'Hundreds of tons of explosives are recovered every year in France alone. Thirteen old bombs exploded in France last year, killing twelve people and wounding eleven, the Interior Minister said. 'I've lost two of my colleagues,' said Yvon Bouvet, who heads a government team in the Champagne-Ardennes region that defuses explosives from both World War I and II… 'Unexploded bombs become more dangerous with time, Bouvet said. 'With the corrosion inside, the weapon becomes more unstable, the detonator can be exposed.' What is true of lingering bombs is also true of lingering anger. Buried anger will explode when we least expect it." - Barry McGee, Anderson, California
Anger
"Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive." - Oswald Chambers
"For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession." - Charles Spurgeon
"The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less." - Vance Havner
"The measure of any Christian is his prayer life." - Vance Havner
"The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting." - Vance Havner
"The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs, but to invite Him to rule our lives." - Clarence Bauman
"We are all too busy to use the mightiest weapon God has given us - prayer!" - J. Sidlow Baxter
"God's promises lie like giant corpses without life, only for decay and dust, unless men appropriate those promises by earnest and prevailing prayer." - E. M. Bounds
"A day without prayer is a boast against God." - Owen Carr
"What isn't won in prayer first, is never won at all." - Malcolm Cook
"God has editing rights over our prayers."' - Stephen Crotts
"Those who pray most in private pray best in public." - R. Edward Davenport
"Many people pray as if God were a Tylenol. They only come to God with their aches and pains, never with their adoration and praise." - Michael Catt
"True prayer always receives what it asks for - or something better." - Byron Edwards
"You can do more than pray - but only after you have prayed." - S. D. Gordon
"Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine." - C. S. Lewis
"The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes." - Martin Luther
"The best prayers have often more groans than words." - John Bunyan
"I am convinced that nothing in Christianity is so rarely attained as a praying heart." - Charles Finney
"Self-examination is the high road to prayer." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty." - Michael Catt
"Prayer is not only our approach to God, but also his approach to us." - E. F. Hallock
"Prayer is not monologue but dialogue. God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part." - Andrew Murray
"True prayer is born out of brokenness." - Frances Roberts
"Many a person is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up." - Sam Jones
"I'd rather be able to pray than be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray." - D. L. Moody
"Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray." - Leonard Ravenhill
"Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name." - Thomas Benton Brooks
"Real prayer is taking His Word into the Throne Room and letting His words speak through our lips to Him on the throne, calling His attention to His own promises." - E. W. Kenyon
"Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness." - Hannah More
"There are particular things about which we ought to pray, for which we are commanded to pray; for all the saints, for the Word of God, for the Christian ministry, for all souls." - G. Campbell Morgan
"There is nothing that makes us love a man as much as praying for him." - William Law
"Intercession is simply love at prayer." - Henrietta C. Mears
Prayer
"The shortest path to domestic peace and marital peace is communication." - Author unknown
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Aesop
"[Peace is] the tranquility of order". - Augustine of Hippo
"My soul can see no other remedy pleasing to God than peace. Peace, peace, therefore, for the love of Christ crucified!" - Catherine of Siena
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Live, "Worship"
"Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you are, and something you give away!" - Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
"Make peace with what is." - Judith Guest, Errands
"Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth". - Matthew Henry
"Let peace begin with me." - Janice Jackson Miller
"Peace is the masterpiece of reason." - J. Muller
"We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming." - Corrie ten Boom
"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." - Thomas à Kempis
"If we will have peace without a worm in it, lay we the foundations of justice and good will." - Oliver Cromwell
"The springs of human conflict cannot be eradicated through institutions, but only through the reform of the individual human being." - Douglas MacArthur
"In God alone can man meet man." - George MacDonald
"Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace." - G. Weatherley
"The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always." - Book of Common Prayer
"Peace is not arbitrary. It must be based upon definite facts. God has all the facts on his side; the world does not. Therefore God, and not the world, can give peace." - Billy Graham
"What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?" - Matthew Henry
"Always long and pray that the will of God may be fully realized in your life. You will find that the man who does this walks in the land of peace and quietness." - Thomas à Kempis
"Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before." - Erwin W. Lutzer
"A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it." - D. L. Moody
"Where there is peace, God is." - Walt Whitman
"Washington has a large assortment of peace monuments. We build one after every war." - Don MacLean
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading." - anonymous
"The most amiable man on earth can live at peace with his neighbor only as long as his neighbor chooses." - anonymous
"Universal peace sounds ridiculous too the head of an average family" - Kin Hubbard
"When a person finds no peace within himself it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - Bits & Pieces
"When somebody gets arrested for disturbing the peace these days, I'm amazed that he found any." - Rudy Mano
"In heaven there is perfect peace; for there is perfect holiness, and there is God, who is love." - Matthew Henry
"Solid peace cannot be enjoyed where there is no true grace; first grace, then peace. Peace without grace is mere stupidity; but grace may be true where there is for a time no actual peace." - Matthew Henry
Peace
"The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own." - Saint Augustine of Hippo in Confessions
"I take no pride in what I did…but pray that in some small way I have righted the wrong I committed so many years ago." - from a letter in an envelope containing $150 in cash as restitution for a stolen canoe. The Bradgate, Iowa, postmaster found the letter the day after Easter from an anonymous correspondent who said he was a railroad brakeman passing through town when he stole the 17-foot fiberglass canoe from behind a house in 1973.
"Repentance is always difficult, and the difficulty grows still greater by delay." - Samuel Johnson in The Quotable Johnson (Christianity Today: October 6, 1997)
"There's a lot of spiritual smog in the churches. Nothing will blow that out except the same wind that blew at Pentecost." - author unknown
"One thief on the cross was saved, that none should despair; and only one, that none shold presume." - J. C. Ryle
"If there are a thousand steps between us and God, he will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours." - Max Lucado
"The man who knows his sins is greater than one who raises a dead man by his prayer." - Isaac the Syrian
"Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday." - author unknown
"May be old fashion, but as long as there is sin, it will never be outdated." - author unknown
"People who admit they're wrong get a lot farther than people who prove they're right." - Beryl Pfizer
"Within the next few hours if we really opened our hearts to repentance and faith for an unscheduled invasion of God, we could meet the demonism of this age with the demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power." - Vance Havner
"Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin." - J. C. McCauley
"One day an unidentified man placed an envelope with $400 on an employee's desk in the office of the Public Service Co. in a Colorado city. In the envelope along with the money was a note which said, "once a thief, now a Christian. This is to pay for the electricity I stole from your company several years ago." Too many modern Christians have lost sight of what the Bible means when it talks of repentance. Many think that repentance is little more than shaking their heads over their sins and saying, "My; but I'm sorry I did that!" and then continue to live just as they have lived before. True repentance means "to change, to turn away from, to go in a new direction," "Godly sorrow worketh repentance" (2 Cor. 7:10)." - Lee Roy Davis
"By repentance we understand (1) the recovery of the right mind in a sinful person awakened by the Word of the Gospel and the Holy Spirit, and received by true faith, by which the sinner immediately acknowledges his innate corruption and all his sins accused by the Word of God; and (2) grieves for them from the heart, and not only bewails and frankly confesses them before with a feeling of shame; but also (3) with indignation abominates them; and (4) now zealously considers the amendment of his ways and constantly strives for innocence and virtue in which conscientiously to exercise himself all the rest of his life." - Christianity Today, 1/8/01
Repentance
To give thanks sincerely, one must give more than thanks." - Anonymous
"Thanksgiving is not a natural virtue; it is a fruit of the Spirit, given by him." - Jerry Bridges
"How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new." - Stephen Charnock
"Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High." - Psalm 50:14 NRSV
"With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God." - Philippians 4:6 CEV
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." - St. Ambrose
"A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude." - John Baillie
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grows. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he gives." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Thanksgiving is good but thanks-living is better." - Matthew Henry
"Thou has given so much to me…Give me one thing more-a grateful heart." - George Herbert
"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies." - Charles Edward Jefferson
"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." - John Henry Jowett
"Thankfulness is a soil in which pride does not easily grow." - Michael Ramsay
"Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven." - William Romaine
"If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God." - Alexander Schmemann
"From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving." - Jeremy Taylor
"The Christian is suspended between blessings received and blessings hoped for, so he should always give thanks." - Marvin Richardson (M.R.) Vincent
"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart-rendered to God for his goodness." - Nathaniel Parker Willis
"God gave you the gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"" - William A. Ward
"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than those-who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." - H. W. Westermeyer
"Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart."
"Most of us don't realize how much we have to be thankful for until we have to pay taxes on it."
"We do not always get what we ask from God, but we always have reason to thank Him."
"Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve."
"The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings; only the iron in God's sand is gold!" - Henry Ward Beecher
"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink." - G. K. Chesterton
"Chrysostom…had the curious thought that a Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way."
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." - Cicero
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give, in the measure as I have received, and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein
"It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life." - Elisabeth Elliot
"If you would enter deeply into the meaning of thanksgiving, cultivate the mood of expectant love, the attitude of awe before the marvelous, and the openheartedness that turns in confidence to that source from whence we sprung." - Henry David Gray
"On the night Matthew Henry was robbed he prayed this prayer: 'I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, although the took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.'"
"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are." - Mary Jean Irion
"Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. It gives us something to sharpen our souls on. The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future." - E. Stanley Jones
"The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God, and who has a heart always ready to praise Him." - William Law
"Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had." - Susan L. Lenzkes
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart." - Massieu
"Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving." - W. T. Purkiser
"Were there no God we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank." - Christina Rossetti
"Our biggest problem in the church today is this vast majority of Sunday morning Christians who claim to have known the Master's cure and who return not on Sunday night or Wednesday night or during revivals to thank Him by presence, prayer, testimony and support of His church. In fact, the whole Christian life is one big "Thank You," the living expression of our gratitude to God for His goodness. But we take Him for granted and what we take for granted we never take seriously."
Thanksgiving
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans." - Robert Balzer
"Biology defines life as 'the metabolic activity of protoplasm.' But there are times when it seems even worse than that."
"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess." - Charles Colson
"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better-not bitter." - Grit
"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds a man down or polishes him depends upon the kind of stuff he is made of." - Supervision
"Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level." - Joan Welsh
"Do you ever get the feeling that life is a violin solo and you're wearing mittens?"- Robert Orben
"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin
"Life is a continual process of getting used to things we never expected." - Bits and Pieces
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Norman MacEwan
"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins." - Heywood Broun
"The troublesome thing about life is not that it is rational or irrational, but that it is almost rational." - G. K. Chesterton
"Life that has no faith has no foundation on which to stand when life tumbles in." - C. Neil Strait
"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season." - Bill Vaughan
"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." - Lou Erickson
"We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance." - Paul Boese
"We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages-we don't throw it away all at once." - Robert A. Cook
"If you're not doing something with your life, it doesn't matter how long it is." - Peace Corps Commercial
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James
"Life is a lot like tennis-the one who can serve best seldom loses." - American Druggist
"Life is currently described in one of four ways: as a journey, as a battle, as a pilgrimage, and as a race. Select your own metaphor, but the finishing necessity is all the same. For if life is a journey, it must be completed. If life is a battle, it must be finished. If life is a pilgrimage, it must be concluded. And if it is a race, it must be won." - J. Richard Sneed
"When a patient completes tests at the Mayo Clinic he is frequently given a card on which is a diagram of a cross. On each arm of the cross is a word representing a main element by which a normal human being lives. The words are "work, play, love, worship." If the person examined seems to be short on one of these, it is indicated. Lopsided living is a common cause of ill health and boredom. The Mayo analysis is close to the Christian prescription for the cure of boredom." - David A. MacLennan
"The man who lives by himself and for himself is liable to be corrupted by the company he keeps. "
"It is but a few short years from diapers to dignity and from dignity to decomposition." - Don Herold
"Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter." - Fred Propp, Jr.
"Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in 2015." - Ohio Grange
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." - G. K. Chesterton
"Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others." - William A. Ward
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation." - Corrie Ten Boom
"We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all; and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us." - Warren Wiersbe
"A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too."
"Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith." - Samuel Shoemaker
"We'll have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them." - Robert Moffat
"Life is short. Plans for each day should be lived in the realization that it is God who will decide if we shall live. Our decision is whether or not to do His will." - Donald A. Miller
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." - William Shakespeare
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire and the other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw
"Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Sit loosely in the saddle of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Three things will make life worth living: a self fit to live with; a faith fit to live by; and a purpose fit to live for."
"You're not ready to live your life until you know what you want written on your tombstone."
"Take time to think, it's the source of power.
Take time to play, it's the secret of youth.
Take time to read, it's the fountain of knowledge.
Take time to be friendly, it's the road to happiness.
Take time to laugh, it's the music of the heart.
Take time to give, it's the feeling of joy.
Take time to work, it's the price of success.
Take time to worship, it's the essence of reality, the fountain of wisdom, and food for the soul.""Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction." - Louisa May Alcott
"Your life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once." - Lillian Dickson
"Your perception of life is mostly a reflection of what you look like on the inside."
"We live in a pill culture. We have pain pills, sleeping pills, birth control pills, pills to make you grow, pills to stunt your growth, pills to promote sexual potency, and pills to control conduct. Secular society has extended life…but offered nothing worth living for." - Philip J. Hogan
Ten Rules for Life:
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
- Never trouble another person for what you can do.
- Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Never buy what you don't want because it's cheap.
- Beware of pride. It will cost you far more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
- Remember that we seldom repent of having eaten too little.
- Remember that nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- Remember that worry will cause much pain over things that will never happen.
- Take things always by the smooth handle.
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Two centuries ago the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, asked three questions about life:
- What can I know?
- What should I do?
- What may I hope?
- Immanuel Kant
"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." - Charlie Brown
"Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span." - Thomas Browne
"Life is one long process of getting tired." - Samuel Butler
"In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin
"Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love." - Henry Drummond
"Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate." - Albert Einstein
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost
"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed." - Thomas Fuller
"Life is love." - Goethe
"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are." - C. S. Lewis
"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." - Erwin W. Lutzer
"Our life is but a span." - New England Primer
"Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls." - French proverb
"Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing." - Author unknown
"Is life worth living? That depends on the liver." - Author unknown.
"I don't know what I want, and I won't be happy until I get it." - Author unknown
"I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things." - Author unknown
"The only things you live to regret are the risks you didn't take." - Author unknown
"No wise man wants a soft life." - King Alfred the Great
"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't." - Francis Bacon
"Whatever you are doing, in company or alone, do it all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). Otherwise, it is unacceptable to God." - Richard Baxter
"The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may." - Martin Luther King
"Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life." - C. S. Lewis
"One can live on less when he has more to live for." - S. S. McKenny
"Let God have your life; he can do more with it than you can." - D. L. Moody
"The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills." - Richard J. Needham
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." - William Osler
"The meaning of earthly existence is not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prosperity, but in the development of the soul." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain
"O Lord, let me not live to be useless!" - John Wesley
"Live your life and forget your age." - Frank Bering
"Life is but a day at most." - Robert Burns
"One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities." - Thomas Carlyle
"Life is not measured by length but by depth. Birthdays tell us how long we have been on the road, not how far we have traveled." - Vance Havner
"Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live." - James S. Stewart
"Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death." - George Whitefield
"We are immortal till our work is done." - George Whitefield
"Life asks no questions that faith cannot answer." - Anonymous
"This life is all the heaven the worldling has, and all the hell the saint ever sees." - Anonymous
"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie
"Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; to the one it is exceedingly long, to the other exceedingly short." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's paradise." - Phillips Brooks
"The quality of life is more important than life itself." - Alexis Carrel
"What makes life dreary is absence of motive." - George Eliot
"Nothing is trivial here if heaven looks on." - Vance Havner
"The business of our lives is not to please ourselves but to please God." - Matthew Henry
"Whatever we do in this life is seed." - Thomas Manton
"Make sure the thing you are living for is worth dying for." - Charles Mayes
"We must not live only to live." - Richard Sibbes
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