"We may not be responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the ways we react when they do happen."
- Unknown
"Choices are the hinge of destiny." - Edwin Markham
"It is never right to do wrong. It is never wrong to do right."- Robert Flatt
"Choices not chance determine your destiny." - Barbara Johnson"Choose to love rather than hate,
Choose to smile rather than frown,
Choose to build rather than destroy,
Choose to persevere rather than quit,
Choose to praise rather than gossip,
Choose to heal rather than wound,
Choose to give rather than grasp,
Choose to go rather than delay,
Choose to forgive rather than curse,
Choose to pray rather than despair."
- Unknown
Choices
"The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England." - William Blackstone
"The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The American nation from its first settlement in Jamestown to this hour is based upon and permeated by the Bible." - James Brewer
"No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible." - Rufus Choate
"The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid." - A. W. Tozer
"A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible." - Unknown
The Bible
"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process."- Phillips Brooks
Character
"Atheism is the death of hope and the suicide of the soul." - Anonymous
"Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason." - Dave Hunt
"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man." - Bacon
Atheism
"Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions." - Anonymous
Wisdom
"The greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted." - Anonymous
"Great trials seem to be necessary preparation for great duties." - Thompson
Affliction
"We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon or daily bread." - John Owen
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." - Henry Fielding
Adversity
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives.It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." - Andrew Carnegie
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." - Vince Lombardi
Teamwork
"Almighty God, let Thy divine power so strengthen our weakness, that neither the craft of the devil, nor the allurements of the world, nor the evil desires of our own hearts, may prevail against us, but that we may in all things be more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Keep us steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; and enable us to be faithful unto death, that we may receive the crown of life." - "Prayers for Social and Family Worship", The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Weakness
"Onward, ye elect of God! Victory is before you; your very safety lies in that direction. To retreat is to perish. . . . By the help of God, we have cut our way to positions of usefulness; and to descend is death. To us, forward means upward; and therefore forward and upward let us go. . . . We put our hand to the plough then; thank God, we have not looked back yet, and we must never do so. The only course open to us is to plough right on to the end of the furrow, and never think of leaving the field till the Master shall call us home." - C. H. Spurgeon
Victory
"Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match." - Ingrid Bengis
"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." - Winston Churchill
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." - Miles Davis
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination
"Christians...are allowing the hypersensitivity of others to silence us. When we allow that, souls perish. Offense is going to come. Let it come." - Julie Canny
Tolerance