"Thankfulness could well be the finest sentiment of a man -- and also the rarest."

"There's always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you're not one of your creditors."

"Be thankful if your job is a little harder than you like. A razor can't be sharpened on a piece of velvet."

Thankfulness

"Forgiveness doesn't change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese

Forgiveness

You like to talk, and you like to win
Every argument you may get in;
But to have the last word, yet avoid a fight,
Say, "Friend, you are absolutely right!"
- John F. Brand

Arguments

"The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires." - Elisabeth Elliott

Adversity

"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito." - Anita Roddick

Making a Difference

"Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured." - Ann Landers

Hate

"Courage is contagious. When a brave person takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened." - Billy Graham

Courage

"The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual." - A. W. Tozer

Spirituality

"We must stir up the gift of God. Like sugar in the lemonade, it may be there but it needs to be set in motion." - Vance Havner

Spiritual Gifts

"The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!" - Watchman Nee

Abiding in Christ

"There is a lot of soft, sentimental talk about him today that brings no conviction. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he did not feel comfortable! Neither did Habakkuk nor Daniel nor Paul nor John. We want a picture of Him today that does not disturb us, that smiles at sin, and winks at iniquity. I remember a man who told me he wanted to hear no hell-fire sermons but rather about the meek and lowly Jesus. Yet the poor man did not seem to realize that the meek and lowly Jesus said more about hell than is reported from the lips of anyone else in the Bible! We need a true and complete vision of God in His holiness and Christ in His glory that will bring us to repentance." - Vance Havner

Repentance

"If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the diffrence. If the Holy Spirit had been withdraw from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference." - A. W. Tozer

Holy Spirit