"When you fall into the mire, be ashamed and be humbled, but return and wash in the open fountain, and return and beg for new strength to walk more surely. Learn to trust yourself less and God more, and take action against your enemies.....Do not imagine that your little is enough, or despair because you cannot do more, but “press on toward the goal to win the prize.” Do not think everything is lost because you are presently foiled. The experienced soldier knows that he will often win the day after a fall or the day after he has been wounded. Be assured of this, after a short battle follows an eternity of triumph." –Robert Leighton, Commentary on 1 Peter
Where You Raised by Clowns?
What good is faith if we never use it?
Tell your story to someone who can't walk away...
"For the protection of the soul: have mercy for all people, abandon anger, endure trials with patience, snatch away sin from the heart through praise." St. Moses the Strong
"Me trying to understand the complexity that is God, is like the pancake I made for breakfast trying to understand the complexity that is me." - Donald Miller
"Through the paralysis of analysis the human spirit shrivels." - Brennan Manning
"The church is not a museum for saints by a hospital for sinners." - Brennan Manning
"Jesus has journeyed to the far reaches of loneliness. In his broken body he has carried your sins and mine, every separation and loss, every broken heart, every wound of the spirit that refuses to close, all the riven experiences of men, women, children across the bands of time." - Brennan Manning
"I don't fear action... only inaction" -Churchill
"In life, the only guarantee is death... what comes after is up to us."
"there is no such thing as luck... it's simply where opportunity meets
preparation."
"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit" says the Lord. -
Zechariah 4:6
"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an
invincible will"
"The only easy day was yesterday"
"history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it" - Churchill
"one man with courage makes a majority" - Churchill
"if you can find something everyone agrees on, its wrong." - Churchill
"if you are going through hell... just keep going" - Churchill
" It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." - ChurchillHebrews 4:16 --> "Let us approach the throne of glory with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."
Ezekiel 18:21-22 --> "But if the wicked turn away from all the sins they have committed and do what is just and right, they will surely live, and will not die. None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them..."
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ~Richard Bach
