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Christianity is not the absence of problems but the presence of God. Seen on a church sign in Arkansas years ago.

Isaiah 65:24 "It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -Longfellow

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about the Acts of the apostles. --Horace Mann

As the lake of knowledge deepens, the shore line of ignorance lengthens. _ Author Unknown.

Gold is tried in fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. --Seneca

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. -Syrus

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. -Hamilton

The harvest of old age is the memory and rich store of blessings laid up earlier in life. -Cicero

The angels may have wider spheres of action and nobler forms of duty than ourselves, but truth and right to them and to us are one and the same thing. -Chapin

Do not judge from mere appearance; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of a sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. -Chapin

We should learn to prepare ourselves before for the burial.  Post mortem kindness does not cheer the burdened spirit, and flowers upon the coffin cast no fragrance backward over the weary way. If, therefore, there is any kind thing I can say or any good thing I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer it nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -Watterson

Aspirations after the holy-the only aspirations in which the soul can be assured it will never meet with disappointment. -McIntosh

I know not when I go or where from this familiar scene; But He is here and He is there, and all the way between; And when I leave this life, I know, for that dim vast unknown, Though late I stay, or soon I go, I shall not go alone. -Anonymous

An atheist's most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can't think of anybody to thank. -Vincent

The heart of Christ became like a reservoir in the midst of the mountains. All the tributary streams of iniquity, and every drop of the sins of his people, ran down and gathered into one vast lake, deep as hell and shoreless as eternity.  All these met, as it were, in Christ's heart, and he endured them all. -Spurgeon

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. -France

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. -Seneca

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other. -Addison

One of our greatest tasks is to demonstrate to the young people of this generation that there is nothing stupid about righteousness. -Tozer

Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for countless centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that thing. -Anonymous

Worship is the act of rising to a personal, experimental consciousness of the real presence of God which floods the soul with joy and bathes the whole inward spirit with refreshing streams of life. -Jones

If Socrates would enter the room we should rise and do him honor.  But if Jesus Christ came into the room we should fall down on our knees and worship Him. --Napoleon Bonaparte

Worry is a kind of insult to the Lord. It's like throwing His promises and assurances back into His face and saying they're no good and you don't trust Him. -Fletcher

Anxiety springs from the desire that things should happen as we wish rather than as God wills. -Anonymous

It is curious- curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. --Mark Twain

It is not the business of a follower of Christ to provide an organization for the world, but to infuse the Spirit of Christ into the organizations of the world. --Unknown

Happiness depends chiefly on our cheerful acceptance of routine, on our refusal to assume, as many do, that daily work and daily duty are a kind of slavery. -Briggs

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -Crane

If you want to be not only successful, but personally, happily and permanently successful, then do your job in a way that puts lights in people's faces.  Do that job in such a way that, even when you are out of sight, folks will always know which way you went by the lamps left behind.
-Mc Farland

Anything that one does, from cooking a dinner to governing a state, becomes a work of art if motivated by the passion for excellence and done as well as it can be.  A man who does his job in that spirit will be the one who gets the most satisfaction out of life. -Jacks


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