The last thing Jesus said on this Earth is "Go into all the world teaching and preaching" Matthew 28:19-20. To this point Paul writes in his letters, "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." Romans 10:17

"For He says, `At the acceptable time I listened to you, And on the day of salvation I helped you; behold, now is 'the acceptable time, 'behold, now is 'the day of salvation--" 2 Corinthians 6:2

And James states it this way, "Be ye doers of the Word and not just hearers, deceiving yourself." James 1:22

" Everyone is a genius. But if you Judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing that it is stupid." -- Albert Einstein

"About this time I met with a track written by an atheist. It read as follows: "Did I firmly believe, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, religion would mean to me everything. I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought, and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness. I should labour in its cause alone. I would take thought for the morrow of Eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences should never stay my hand nor seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its grief's, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon Eternity alone, and on the Immortal Souls around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable. I would go forth to the world and preach to it in season and out of season and my text would be, "WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOOSE HIS SOUL?" C.T. Studd, Autobiography, pg 40.

WORLD CLOCK & POPULATION

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see" -- Alexandra K Trenfor

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" - Plutarch

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EASTER
Worry is a misuse of imagination - copied

The time we have with our parents as adults is really underestimated.

Resurrection is not possible without death first.

Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing-Frederick Buchner

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent; or something else. - John Bunyan

"Point people to Scripture and then get out of the way." -Adrian Rogers

The altar is the place to alter

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PRAYER

Stop overtinking it. - God heard your prayer. - Now trust He'll answer. - copied

"Jesus prayed that we would be one with Him and the Father, and He prayed for our protection, sanctification, and glorification. And God answered those prayers. That’s why so many have been faithful to the truth. Not solely based on people’s faithfulness but on Christ’s. Scottish pastor Robert Murray M’Cheyne once said, “If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.” Friend, He prayed for you in John 17 and is still praying for you."
taken from She Reads Truth devotional by Beverly Berrus"

The Devil knows your name but calls your sin, God knows your sin bit calls you by your name.

The biggest mistake we make in life is thinking we have time - copied.

Wait like Sarah. Protect like Rahab. Trust like Ruth. Pray like Hannah. Lead like Esther. Rejoice like Mary. - copied

When we understand that Heaven rules--even our prayer life changes-Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul- Corrie ten Boom

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation. - Corrie ten Boom

The measure of a life, after all, is not duration, but its donation--Corrie ten Boom

If you look at the world, you will be distressed.
If you look wiwthin, you will be depressed.
If you look at God, you will be at rest. -Corrie ten Boom

John 9:31 "We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

When prayer becomes your habit, miracles become your lifestyle - copied

PRAYER IS PUTTING ONESELF IN THE HANDS OF GOD - COPIED

Prayer is not a place to be good, but it is a place to be honest. - copied.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? -- Corrie Ten Boom

"Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking." -Adrian Rogers

My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.”— Charles Spurgeon

“When joy and prayer are married their first born child is gratitude.” (Spurgeon)

Religion never was designed to make our pleasures less--Charles Spurgeon

He who counts the stars and calls them by their names is in no danger of forgetting His own children. - Charles Spurgeon

There can be no peace between yuo and Christ while there is peace between you and sin -- Charles Spurgeon

I live in the Spirit of Prayer; I pray as I walk, when I lie down and when I rise,and the answers are always coming. - George Muller

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me -- CH Spurgeon

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ. -- CH Spurgeon

We have plenty of people nowadays who could not kill a mouse without publishing it in the Gospel. Sammson killed a lion and said nothing about it: The Holy Spirit finds modesty so rare that he takes care to record it. Say much of what the Lord ahs done for you, but say little of what you have doenfor the Lord. Do no utter a self0glorifying sentence. - CH Spurgeon

Worship gets you through the hardest times in your life because it sifts your focus from the problem to the problem server. copied

"Let me say a word to that person who is VERY worried today. The secret of peace is prayer and thanksgiving. Don't worry! Pray about it, thank the Lord for it, present your requests, and the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus." --Elisabeth Elliot

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for commen men to trust his great faithfulness. - Hudson Taylor

Books are the training weights of the mind - Epictetus (Stoic Philosopher)

"Intercession is the link between our powerlessness and God's omnipotence." Andrew Murray - "Power in Prayer"

Pray, pray and pray again because prayer changes everything - copied

Never get to busy to pray.

MAKE YOU THINK QUOTES

"For many religious people, God is useful to them, not beautiful. When something is beautiful to you, you seek it for its own sake. When something is useful you seek it because it is a means to something else you really want." - JD Greear

Holiness will be the oxygen of Heaven.

I have a great need for Christ. I have a great Christ for my need. - Charles Spurgeon

“We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” - Tim Keller

Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana - copied

I've never seen God but I have seen his greatness

Science is meaningless without Philosophy and Philosophy is empty without Theology - D.E. Hester

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.- Lao Tzu

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity-Joseph Addison

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God. - AW Tozer

The secret of getting ahead is getting started - Mark Twain

20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do.- Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you finid out why. - Mark Twain

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.--Corrie Ten Boom

A leaf is God's Solar panel-circlemaker

The church isn't an audience to be entertainment; it's an army to be empowered - copied

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do.” Grif.Net – Theodore Roosevelt

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” Grif.Net – George Addair

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Grif.Net – Dr. Seuss

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you’ve always envisioned for yourself.” Grif.Net - Henry David Thoreau

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” Grif.Net – H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“Twenty years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from your safe harbor, and catch a trade wind in your sails. Grif.Net - Mark Twain

Grace never seems fair until you need a little. -- copied

The most convincing sign that someone is truly living their best life is their lack of desire to show the world that they are living their best life. Your best life won't seek validation.

"Destroying any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or the use of long range missiles...it only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in the examinations by the students..." Patients die at the hands of such doctors...Money is lost at the hands of such economists and accountants...Humanity dies at the hands of such religious scholars...Justice is lost at the hands of such judges..."The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation." -- Entrance gate at the University of South Africa

The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you are not worth the truth.--copied.

Today's forecast God reigns and the Son shines.

What would our life look like if we acted like God heard our prayers so we don't have to have a back up plan and worry.

None have grown so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm- Henry David Thoreau

"Eve found the serpent more trustworthy than God, not because of its credentials, but because the serpent said what Eve wanted to hear" - copied

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins--Martin Luther

Money says earn me, Future says win me, Beauty says love me, Calendar says earn me, Time says plan me, But God simply says remember me.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

God is most glorified in us -- when we are most satisfied in Him- John Piper

“God is who He is. He is not who you want Him to be.” — Tony Evans

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.--Mario Andretti

Dance like Frosty, Shine like Rudolph, Give like Santa, Love like Jesus.-copied

Instead of fearing what might happen, trust in the Almighty! -copied

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch...Liberty is a well armed lamb... - Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution.-Nigel Tufnet

The same sun which melts wax hardens clay. And the same Gospel which melts some persons to repentance hardens others in their sins.” ― Charles H. Spurgeon

Success is not for the lazy - copied

“Don’t compare yourself to others. Be like the sun and the moon; shine when it’s your time.”--Grif.Net

Both optimist and pessimist contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.-George Bernard Shaw

Have you no wish for others to be saved, then you're not saved yourself - Charles Spurgeon

Grief is love with no place to go - copied

The greater the grief the greater the love. -Sherry Barham

*But what is grief, if not love persevering?*” -Vision from WandaVision.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot/Mary Ann Evans

Share joy is a double joy. Shared sorrow is half a sorrow.- Swedish saying

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is never too late to be what you might.-Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy - Marcus Aurelius

Thinking is difficult that's why most people judge. - Carl Young

Care about what other people think and yu will always be their prisoner.-LaoTzu

A fool is known by his speech and a wise man by silence-Pythagoras

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room - Confucius

The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.-Rumi

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." - Socrates

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy - CS Lewis

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it - copied

Worrying is arrogant becauseGod knows what He's doing- copied

"Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it." ~ George Carlin

The Bible is real.Jesus is real.Heaven is real. Eternity is real. God's love is real. Amen

He who does not offend cannot be honest - Thomas Paine

Until God is enough, nothing else will be

God's mercy is more powerful than his Wrath and judgement. (Joel 2:13b, " Now return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness And relenting of evil. Exodus 34:6, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth.)

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” -AW Tozer

Knowledge is the process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. - Martin Luther

Faith is seeing light withyour heart when all your eyes see us darjbess - unknown

True humility isi not thinkiing less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less. - CS Lewis

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God - Corrie ten Boom

Earth has no sorrow that heaven can't cure.-copied

God never uses anyone greatly until he tests them deeply. -AW Tozer

I'd rather attend church with messed up people who love God, than religious people who dislike messed up people.- Author unknown

Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you - copied

God's mercy is more powerful than his Wrath and judgement (Joel 2:13, Exodus 34:6)

No prophet is the Bible was sent to make men rich. All prophets were sent to warn people to get right with God.- copied

The Strongest faith isn't a faith that never doubts. It's a faith that grows through your doubts. - copied

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't reallhy matter - Francis Chan

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find the prisoner was me.-Corrie ten Boom

The Old Testament contains the New Testament concealed and the New Testament contains the Old Testament revealed - copied

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.- Corrie ten Boom

Praise is the rehersal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. - Charles Spurgeon

Your enemy flees when you fight-from your knees

If you don't fill your mind with the Word of God, the Enemy will fill it with fear, anxiety, stress, worry, and temptation. - copied

Everyone wants to be clothed with power but no one wants to be stripped of self-Leonard Ravenhill

It is inconsistant not to have time for God and to wish to spend eternity with HIm -copied

My prayer that when I die all of Hell rejoices that I am out of the fight. We are called to be warriors for the Kingdom, if Satan sees you as a threat you're doing something right. - CS Lewis

Just because God seems silent does not man He is absent.- copied

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will makek us good because he loves us. - CS Lewis

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. And the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. - George Mueller

“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.“ R. A. Torrey

Why do we work so much and pray so little, when prayer can accomplish much more than work? - Watchman Nee

The Spirit always communicates that he's for you when he covicts you of your sin. - RC Sproul

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. - Soren Kirkegaard

"Your life as a Christian should make nonbelievers question their disbelief in God."--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A river cuts through Rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistance. -Miyamoto Musashi

Our sin must be abswolutely horrendous if it takes the death of God's only So to fix it. - Alistare Begg

God never made a promise that ws too good to be true. - Dwight Moody

Want to stay hungry for God? Quit snacking on sin. - copied

Half the world is composted of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep saying it - Robert Frost

I want to be so anchored in Christ that chaos around me does not produce chaos within me - copied

“The all-powerful, all-wise, sovereign Governor of the universe is still open for business.” -- Dale Thackrah

The same boiling water that softens the potatoe hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances.

Sometimes when you are in a dark place, you think you have been buried, but actually you have been planted - christine Caine

Fear arises when we imagine that everyting depends on us -- Elizabeth Elliot

The nature of ministry is SERVICE, not being served. --Buhay Kristyano 6.33

When God put a calling on your lif He alreday fatored in your rstupidity--Most comfortating thing I've ever heard. - copied

Bragging on one doesn't mean we are putting down another - d'lyles

Our task is not to protest the world into a certain moral conformity, but to attract the world to the saving beauty of Christ ~Beauty Will Save The World (2012)

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes -- Mark Twain

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but with men in suits sitting behnd desis. CS Lewis

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits on the undesterving. - AW Tozer

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs. --AW Tozer

Listen to no man who has not listened to God -- AW Tozer

Mankind are spirit beings with a body. Once concieved will last forever. -- d'lyles
Have you considered that once you move to eternity you will not need the Bible. Today is a good day to dust off your Bible -- d'lyles

When God takes the trash out of your life, don't go dumpster diving - coped

Thinking is the talking of the Soul with itself-Plato

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men-- AW Tozer

Today sin is called sickness, so people think it requires therapy, not repentance - John MacArthur

Courage is fear that has said its prayers - Dorothy Bernard

Be the reason someone smiles today - copied

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. da Vinci

Without freedom, the truth doesn't exist - Alexander Pushkin

He who dares not offend cannot be honest - Thomas Paine

A life doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesm't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.-Booker T Washington

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us - St. Augustine

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. - Jesus (Mt 6:34 NKJV)

It's very important to learn to talk to people you disagree with. - Pete Seeger

If you're not sold out to Jesus, you're still on sale to the Devil - copied

The basic tool for the manipulation of realty is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can cntrol the people who must use the words. - Philip K Dick

Anxiety/worry is the opposite of faith - copied

Christianity, if false is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - C.S. Lewis

I need a full wall TV with 100 peaceful photos in National Parks; then I can sit at home and be on vacation. - d'lyles

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - CS Lewis

When the whole world is running toward a cliff, he who is runnng in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. - CS Lewis

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil - Thomas Mann

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Answered prayers are a motivator to pray more.

Why do we fail in our lives because we think that God should do what we want - copied

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible.Theree is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's powerends. - George Muller

To fall in love with God isi the greatest romance; to seek Him the greater adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement. - St. Augustine

There needs to be an equal amount of teaching on the Love of God and the Justice of God. Heaven and Hell. We have the idea that it is one or the other, in truth, Christianity is both, whether we understand it or not because that is what the Bible teaches. -d'lyles

Deliverance gets you out of Egypt, bt discpleship gets Egypt out of you. - copied

Tranquility comes when you stop caring what they say. Freedom comes when you stop caring what they think. - Marcus Aurelius

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.-Wm Barklay

“A journey of 1000 Miles begins with the first step.” - Lau Tzu

Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace. - Soulful Quotes

One of the biggest surprises of life is realizing old people are just young people that have spent more time on earth. - d'lyles

The Bible is real. Jesus is real. Heaven is real. God's love is real. Amen

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.--Seneca

Have patience, believer: Eternity will right the wrongs of time. - Charles Spurgeon

Best advice I got when I entered academica: "We're all smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind." - copied

Dance like Frosty, Shine like Rudolph, Give like Santa, Love like Jesus.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - CS Lewis

You are what you do, not what you say you will do. - Carl Jung

Never get 2 busy 2 pray.

Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. (Ps 55:22 NAS95)

"Look like a lady, fight like a knight, pray like a pastor, live like Christ." - Jacqueline Welence

Every storm runs out of rain - Maya Angelou

Prayer is not a great work, it is the greater work. - Oswell Chambers

"By praying the Psalms back to God, we learn to pray in tune with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" - Ben Patterson (Praying the Bible, Donald S Whitney, Crossway, Wheaton, Illinois)

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath.-Max Lucado

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and ... realizing you were the prisoner. -- Max Lucado

Prayer alligns our will with God's will - Destined Wright

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter into God's realm where evrything is possible. Nothing is too great for his almighty power. Nothing is too small for his love -- Corrie Ten Boom

Pray like everything depends on prayer, and work like everything depends on work. -- Sophia Marie

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave the world of not being able to do something, and enter God's realm where eveything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is to great for His Almighty power. Nothing is too small for his love. -- Corrie ten Boom

Consider how precious a soul must be when both God and the Devil are after it. - Charles Spurgeon

I was educated once--it took me years to get over it. - Mark Twain

God goes after sinners, a religious God would not, a relational God would.- Rocky Burris

God doesn’t deliver me because I am good enough. He delivers me because He is perfectly good and perfectly gracious.-- Pastor Jeff Thomas

"God is in control, but He doesn't expect you to lean on a shovel and pray for a hole." - Stan Terry

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him- copied

David didn't need to know Goliath's strength because he already knew God's. copied

It’s not about who we are, but about whose we are -copied

Consider how precious a soul must be, when both God and the Devil are after it. - Charles Spurgeon

When you want different for yourself, you have to start moving different. Old keys don't unlock new doors.

There's an old Irish saying that goes, "A man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes the man."

Praise...until the spirit of worship comes. Worship...until the glory comes. Then...stand in the glory. -- Ruth Heflin

prayer not programs are the engine of evangelism - d'lyles

The most fragile thing in the universe is the male ego. - d'lyles

Our life is part of forever - d'lyles

young is beautiful, old is comfortable - d'lyles

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too muchand God too little. - John Flavel

The past is in your head, the future is in your hands - copied

God formed us. Sin deformed us. The Bible informs us and Jesus transforms us.

Ridicule is the tribute pald to the genius by the mediocrities - Oscar Wilde

The atmosphere of GOD'S eternal reign is holiness. Holiness will be the oxygen of heaven. --copied

"How do you awaken a generation? By allowing them to see themselves how God sees them." - Joseph Sojourner

"God is not just present in the pain. He has a purpose in the pain" - Megan Marshman

"Heaven is man saying to God. 'Thy will be done.' Hell is God saying to man, 'Thy will be done.'" -CS Lewis

“Do everything, anything, however menial, measuring it not by hours or by dollars, but by love.”- Amy Carmichael

If you want to get somewhere look out the windshield not the rear view mirror -- d'lyles

See, then, how God educates your soul through prayer, nurturing your desires for truth, love and beauty, and teaching you to discover them in himself. Play truant from the school of prayer and you will never learn these things. You will be a spiritual ignoramus, shallow and undeveloped and unable to understand the things of the Spirit. What Happens When I Pray.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me. -
Robert Murray M'Cheyne

If I put my trust in human beings first, the end result will be my despair and hopelessness toward everyone. I will become bitter because I have insisted that people be what no person can ever be— absolutely perfect and right. Never trust anything in yourself or in anyone else, except the grace of God. -Oswald Chambers

When you run alone, you call it a race; and when God runs with you, it is called Grace! -- Gennie Daquis

We must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world. -- Lysa TerKeurst

Christmas is believing that the Salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine. - Henri Nouwen

I still remember the days I prayed for the things I have now.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die. -Imanuel Kant

If you live for the next world you get this one in the deal, but if you live only for t his world, you lose them both. - CS Lewis

Honesty without love is cold, and love without honesty is shallow. Speak the truth with love.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.--Aristotle

"Fear of the unknown paralyzes us, but faith propels us to charge boldly ahead." - Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase" - Martin Luther King Jr.

I was reading this morning and found this interesting: Our society admires assertiveness, independence, and defiance of authority. In a relationship with GOD these qualities become stubbornness, self-importance, and refusal to listen or change. Left unchecked, stubbornness becomes a way of life hostile to GOD. - Kathy Keeleydunbar

Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain. --Blaise Pascal's Wager

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can. -- John Wesley

Doubt looks around
Regret looks back
Shame looks down
Hope looks ahead
Love looks without
Depression looks within
Faith looks up

TEACH
"Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity" -- C.S.Lewis

"When an ENLIGHTENMENT becomes an EMPHASIS it INEVITABLY leads to ERROR" - copied

Our job is to leak heaven, not soak up the earth. -- Rachel and Ian Carroll

“No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by experience of life as that you should never trust experts.
If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome;
if you believe theologians, nothing is innocent;
if you believe soldiers, nothing is safe.” ~Lord Salisbury

I'm writing a book about the things I should be doing in my life--It's an oughtobiography--Donna Pappas Dambrino/copied.

Waiting on God is never a waste of time - copied

Atheism is a non-Prophet organization.- copied

Too many church members are starched and ironed but not washed.--copied

Adam & Eve first ones to ignore apples terms and conditions - copied

In the sacrifice of Jesus, we find the Wrath of God and the Love of God displayed (or been manifested) simultaneously in the same space and time. -- Dr. Carlos Gonzalez

If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you -- Anonymous

worship is essentially paying attention to God - copied

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about discovering who God created you to be." - Mikayla Alahuzos

Do not let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your Peace. - Kimberly Jones

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous -- copied

Don't be bitter be better -- copied

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." - C.S. Lewis

What do you say to yourself when you look in the mirror -Destined Wright.

We are to be IN the world not OF it--to be separate internally, not externally. - Roy Peacock

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”--JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

we don't HAVE to die; we GET to die -- Dr. Robert E. Griffin

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, he would never have been crucified. -- Leonard Ravenhill

Nobody truly wants God to be fair.- Dr. Dale Thackara

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."--C. S. Lewis

JUST SUPPOSE

Just suppose, when I pray, there really is someone listening who cares about me and wants to know what is on my mind.

Just suppose, when I pray it changes me and my view of how the universe operates and who is involved.

Just suppose, I put my doubts aside for a minute and consider the possibility that someone who knew me before I was born loves me, warts and all, without conditions or reservations, no matter how badly I have behaved in the past.

Just suppose, a prayer was my first response instead of my last resort when facing a new challenge or an old temptation.

Just suppose I lived each day, knowing that there is an inexhaustible supply of love for me to pass along to others.

Just suppose. -- Copied

God wills that we should push on into his presence and live our whole life there. This is to be known to us in conscious experience. It is more than a doctrine to be held; it is a life to be enjoyed every moment of the day. -- A.W. Tozer

If I don’t take time to pray, there will be no real communication in our relationship. If I don’t take time to read God’s word, I won’t hear His loving call. And if I don’t make time to be alone with Jesus, our relationship will suffer, because time is integral to any relationship.--Joanna Weaver

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.” ― A.W. Tozer

If the gospel you preach doesn't include repentance, you preach a false gospel! - AW Tozer

Leadership is not being in charge, it is about taking care of people in your charge. -- Simon Sinek

Ignorance of Scripture is the most dangerous Self-inflicted wound- Dale Partridge

Remember that without prayer, you cannot win; and with it, you cannot lose. -- A.W. Tozer

The only sin Jesus ever had was ours. And the only righteousness we can have is his. -AW Tozer

As smoke drives bees away, allowing us to steal their honey, idleness drives away reverence for God. Abba Poemen 340-450

"Prayer is the vital breath of Christians; not the thing that makes us alive, but the evidence that we are alive." Oswald Chambers

You cannot break through what you are unwilling to pray through!-- Bishop Mark Filkey

Pray--when you are content or miserable; with fear & trembling...your prayer will be acceptable to the Lord. Theodoras the Ascetic c.4th C.

"No labor is more difficult than prayer. Demons understand that prayer is a path to God & they will hinder the journey. " Agathon d.c.400 B.C.

"Prayer is not a privilege for the pious, not the art of a chosen few. Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child."‬ Max Lucado

Prayer is more powerful than your obstacles.

Prayer is the sum of our relationship with God. We are what we pray. Our ability to love is our ability to pray. Carlo Carretto 1910-1988

It is as great an absurdity to offer up holy prayers without a holy life as it is to live a holy life without prayer. -- William Law 1686-1761

Prayer is the source of gentleness & the manager of anger. It is a remedy for grief & depression. -- Abba Nilus

The Christian's business is, first, to learn Christ's will and, second, to do it. - Charles Spurgeon

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this: that I may die to self, and live wholly for Him.
--C.H. Spurgeon

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. — Luther

Talk to God about your feelings, Psalm 6:6
Talk to God about your weaknesses, Psalm 25:16
Talk to God about your strengths, Psalm 24:8
Tell God your fears, Psalm 55:5
Pour out to God the desires of your heart, Psalm 38:9
Openly and emotionally admit your sins to God, Psalm 38:17
Say, out loud what you know to be true, Psalm 18:1f --
The Relationship Principles of Jesus, Tom Holladay

Prayer is the engine that drives Evangelism and love is the ignition to get people to listen. - Kevin Bain

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives. -- Peter Kreeft

Commenting on Psalm 6:6-7 C.H. Spurgeon said that tears are liquid prayers that need no interpretation.

For a better morning, talk with God first. For a better night, talk with God last. For a better life, talk with God all day.-copied

I pray you so live, that when you stand over your child's dead body, you may never hear a voice coming up from that clay, "Father, your negligence was my destruction. Mother, your prayerlessness was the instrument of my damnation.--Spurgeon

Prayer found in the Breviary of St. Theresa of Avila
Let nothing trouble you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All is passing,
God alone is unchanging.
Patience
Obtains everything.
Who possesses God
Wants for nothing.
God alone suffices.

It's in solitude that we understand we are never alone.-- Dallas Willard

“When an enlightenment becomes an emphasis, it inevitably leads to error”!--copied from Kathy Palmer's page

“God is a comedian telling jokes to a room full of people who are too afraid to laugh.” - Voltaire

EASTER
Death was proof that Jesus was human. Resurrection was proof that He is God. - copied

The Gospel is the only story where the hero dies for the villain. - Ethan Purkey

"I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details"? -- Albert Einstein

MISC

I was educated once, it took me years to get over it. - Mark Twain

Learning is natural, School is optional - bumper sticker

"No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair" - George Patton

your problems are temporary God is Eternal

The Christian life is a process of God breaking our idols one by one. - Elisabeth Elliot

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." -- Narcotics Anonymous

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us." --Richie Norton

Will you go and share the Good News of Jesus with others on your block and world?

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes... including you." — Anne Lamott

"Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? "Then I said, "Here am I, Send me!" Isaiah 6:8

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. James 1:22 NAS95

An umbrella cannot stop the rain but it allows us to stand in the rain. Fath in God may not remove our trials but it gives us strength to overcome them. - copied

BUT IF GOOD WORKS are not the cause of salvation, they are nonetheless the mark and effect of it. If the forgiven man does not become forgiving, the loved man loving, then he is only deceiving himself.--Frederick Buechner

Educating yourself does not mean you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn. --
Melanie Joy

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”--Charles De Gaulle

Little boys should never be sent to bed, they always wake up a day older. -Peter Pan

"For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. -- 2Chronicles 16:9 NAS95

The gospel changes heaven’s courtroom proceedings from a criminal trial to an adoption ceremony.— Matt Smethurst

Only those who care about you can hear you when you're quiet. -- copied

The biggest problem the Church has is: hands & feet & all the body parts fighting & trying to become the HEAD! -- Abbas Anthony

Self-righteous people are always more upset about the sin of others than their own. It takes grace to admit that you need grace.-copied

And those that were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those that could not hear the music -- copied

"Jesus didn't die on the cross to BLESS our life, He did it to CHANGE our life." - Chris Brown (Bayside Church)

I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred -- Fred Rogers

"Seek peace with God, with your own heart, with others; search after it as a businessman seeks a precious pearl." Oswald Chambers

Always seek peace, it is the direction of the Holy Spirit.--dlyles

Radio is about as close to divinity as routine life brings us.-- copied

Expectations are pre-planned resentments -- Jewish proverb

When God put a calling on your life He already factored in your stupidity. -- copied from Kathy Keeleydunbar

Great reminder: "Moses's first question was, "Who am I?" (Exod. 3:11). God did not answer it directly. It didn't matter who Moses was, because God would be with him." Ava Pennington‬

When we choose to be a servant we give up the right to be in charge. Richard Foster

Seek God, not happiness' is the fundamental rule of all meditation -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fear is the gasoline of the Devil -- dlyles

Since we are going to pray & give thanks forever, let us not stop praying & giving thanks in this life also. Cyprian c.200-258

Diligence to bring our will into conformity with the will of God is the greatest thing that can be accomplished. Teresa of Avila 1515-1582

The more I think it over the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.-- Vincent Van Gogh

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life.--Dietrich Bonhoefier.

"If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?" -- Jonathan Fields

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana, 1905.

100 QUOTES

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.-Oswald Chambers

Humiliation is something that God's Grace allows us as a Precious Gift that brings us close to His own Sacred Heart to discover and see who God really IS. -- Abba Anthony the repentant

You can't boast in Jesus while you're preoccupied with yourself---ODB (Estelle Stewart)

"Correlation does not equal causation"!

A reader lives a thousand lives befroe he dies...The man who never reads lives only one. -- George R R Martin

"You ought to think this way: "Very well, by God's decree, the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore, I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person, but will go freely."--Martin Luther discussing the bubonic plague

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

To put on the name of Christ & not to walk in the way of Christ is a mockery of the Divine name. Cyprian c.200-258

Confession is agreeing with God about our sin. -- copied

True peace is not the absence of war; it is the presence of God--Loveless.

A wise Rabbi once said, "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell

If you have been united with Christ (ie: married), then communion is like date night. - Luke Simmons

So many people are miserable because they think happiness come from self-gratification. It actually comes from self-sacrifice.-- Rick Warren

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"...all work is honorable. Always do your best because someone is watching."-- Colin Powell

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. -- Saint Augustine

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man -- Francis Bacon born 1561.

"Comparison is mankind's greatest insult."--Myles Weber

A good pun is its own reword. -- Donna Runion

God loves impossible. Impossible is when God gets to show up and show off.- Liz Curtis Higgs

"Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will." —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him."- J.I. Packer

Worship is the quickening of conscience by God’s holiness;
the nourishment of mind with His truth;
the purifying of imagination by His beauty;
the opening of the heart to His love;
the surrender of the will to His purpose;
and all of this gathered up in adoration
-- Archbishop William Temple

My life is but a weaving, between my God and me;
I do not chose the colors, He worketh steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper, and I the under side.
Not til the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why
The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver's hand
As threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned.--Anonymous

"We live under the illusion that if we can acquire complete control, we can understand God. ...But the only way we can brush against the hem of the Lord...is to have the courage, the faith, to abandon control. For the opposite of sin is faith, and never virtues, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works." Madeleine L'Engle in "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art"

God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.-C.S. Lewis

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else. -Oswald Chambers

"The Christian who is truly poor in spirit goes to worship on Sunday morning singing 'I am poor but I brought myself the best I could; I am Yours, I am Yours.'" -Brennan Manning

THEOLOGY PROPER
"Without a proper view of God there cannot exist a proper view of man." - John MacArthur‬

"The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him - and of her." A.W. Tozer‬

I want God, not my idea of God. -- C.S. Lewis

"There are 2 things you will deal with all your life: money and relationships...and ONE of them will make you rich."--
Pastor Dick Foth (From Becky Carey's FB page)

Love is not a noun to be defined... But a verb to be acted upon.--Scott and Kelli

A pat on the back is only a few inches higher than a kick in the pants. -- Office Truisms

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.-- Chinese cookie

"Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However eating too much pie is OK because the sin of pi is always zero." - copied

We remember: 10% of what we hear, 30% of what we read, 50% of what we see, 90% of what we do

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. -- C.S. Lewis

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.--Faith Baldwin

"That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up" -Walt Disney

Without the dark we would never see the stars. -- copied

Research is formalized curosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zara Neals Hurston, Library Vangard University

If you have a pulse you have a purpose.--sent by Michelle Koperski Wallace

Deliverance gets you out of Egypt, but descipleship gets Egypt out of you. - copied

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss

Time is the ultimate liar. It makes us think we have lots of time, then it is too late.--d'lyles

God doesn't make junk. You are made perfect for the job you are to do.

It is hard to drive a car forward looking in the rear view mirror.--d'lyles

There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson

Judas was filled with remorse, not repentance, sorrier for the result of his sin than for the sun itself. - Dr. Bob Griffith

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” —C.S. Lewis

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"ANYWAY"
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world your best anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Copied
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength--Corrie Ten Boom

Worry is like paying on a debt that may never come due.-- Will Rogers

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. -- George Bernard Shaw

Words are the check engine light of our soul -- copied

Time spent waiting on God is never wasted.---ODB

We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven't so far. -- Ron Edmonds

Lyles' Axiom, "Every organization starts with vision and zeal, moves to complacency and ends killing itself with rules and regulations--always with the best intentions."

When you have an unforgiving spirit, you put yourself in prison spiritually and emotionally, you pay dearly for the luxury of caring a grudge. Is it worth it??? --
Warren Wiersbe

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. -- William Deresiewicz

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common... Steven Donaldson

"Loosen up. Don`t you have some people to hug, rocks to skip, or lips to kiss? It`s time to retire...not from your job, just retire from your attitude. Honestly, has complaining ever made the day better? Has grumbling ever paid the bills? Has worrying about tomorrow ever changed it? Let someone else run the world for a while."~Pat Ahrens

"When the Child of God looks into the Word of God and sees the Son of God, he is changed by the Spirit of God into the Image of God for the Glory of God." --Dr. Warren Wiersbe

Shame never comes from God. Guilt and shame are not works of the Spirit. - Dr. Carlos Gonzalez

"We live in America, where it seems like losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity" --Anonymous

"No" is one of the most godly words in the English Language, and should be used freely with running tennis shoes. -- dlyles

Safety chooses convenience over freedom. Corollary, One is safe in solitary confinement. There will be no automobile fatalities if everyone walks. ~ dlyles

"So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work. Many a year I have thought and pondered, lost myself in speculations and theories, considering man as a mass moved by a force, viewing his inexplicable movement in the light of a mechanical one, and applying the simple principles of mechanics to the analysis of the same until I arrived at these solutions, only to realize that they were taught to me in my early childhood. These three words sound the key-notes of the Christian religion. Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement. These are the only three solutions which are possible of that great problem, and all of them have one object, one end, namely, to increase human energy. When we recognize this, we cannot help wondering how profoundly wise and scientific and how immensely practical the Christian religion is, and in what a marked contrast it stands in this respect to other religions. It is unmistakably the result of practical experiment and scientific observation which have extended through the ages, while other religions seem to be the outcome of merely abstract reasoning. Work, untiring effort, useful and accumulative, with periods of rest and recuperation aiming at higher efficiency, is its chief and ever-recurring command. Thus we are inspired both by Christianity and Science to do our utmost toward increasing the performance of mankind. This most important of human problems I shall now specifically consider." --Nikola Tesla

"When churches approach ministry with a business mentality, there are at least four tragic results:

1. The Gospel Becomes a Product
2. People Become Consumers
3. Appeal Becomes the Priority
4. Numbers Become the Measurement "
Chase, Mitchell (2010-11-15). The Gospel is for Christians (p. 174). Lucid Books. Kindle Edition.

Racism is an insult to God.--Pastor Rick Warren

How to really love a child -- Be there. Say yes as often as you can. Let them bang on pots and pans. If they're crabby put them in water. Read books out loud with joy. Go find elephants and kiss them. Encourage silly. Giggle a lot. Remember how really small they are. Search out the positive. Keep the gleam in your eye. Go see a movie in your pajamas. Teach feelings. Realize how important it is to be a child. Plan to build a rocket ship. Stop yelling. Invent pleasures together. Surprise them. Express your love, a lot. Children are miraculous! -- copied from Facebook.

"Everyone is a genius. But if you Judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing that it is stupid." -- Albert Einstein

You can tune a guitar, you cannot tuna fish, unless you play bass....copied (from Brigitte Peters FB page)

I'm good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet… I don't know Y.--Chris Turner

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit -- Aristotle

...it is possible to spend your whole life filling your plate with your favorite parts of God, while your soul starves of spiritual malnourishment. -Jarrett Stevens

The people that died yesterday, had plans for today. Today is the day of salvation. -- copied

Jesus is the Light of the world. Lucifer is an Angel of Light. Be sure which light is guiding your life's path. -- d'lyles

If you believe God created Adam and Eve, each homosexual act is an insult to Jehovah. – d’lyles

When I walked to the front door of my home, I was dismayed that only one key opened the door: I thought all keys would open any door. When I needed to enter heaven, I was dismayed that only one key, belief in Jesus as director of my life, opened the door.--d'lyles

Mr. Scott died this weekend. One of my best memories in life occurred with his son Mike and daughter-in-law Laura. His last words after saying good-bye to his family around his bed was, "Well it is now just you and me Lord Jesus." Suddenly, the activity of life became unimportant. I have not been able to break the spell of these simple words. Life is after all about what happens after the last breath.

Leaders are readers -- d'lyles

If given two choices, always pick "C". -- d'lyles

Never forget Haman and Sir Thomas More were the King's right hand man--the day before they lost their head. -- d'lyles

Sin is selfishness -- dlyles

A book in bed means there will be one less child in trimesters. -- d'lyles

Young is beautiful. Old is comfortable.-- d'lyles

The problem is, government has no common sense only election sense.-- d'lyles

The problem with the law is that it has no common sense.-- d'lyles

The complete human existence is only a tiny interval compared with the endless age our hopes rest in. Basil c.330-379
bubonic plague... You ought to think this way: "Very well, by God's decree, the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore, I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person, but will go freely."
While democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.-- Alexis de Tocqueville

May the strength of God pilot us,
May the wisdom of god instruct us,
May the hand o God protect us,
May the Word of God direct us. –St. Patrick

Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left
Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me. -- St. Patrick
(underlined words are prepositions)

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” ~Michelangelo

"Thy will be done, as in heaven so in earth" not so that God will do what He wills, but that we may be able to do what God wills. Cyprian 3C

“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

(Sadly) nothing is so vile that people can't consider it desirable & praiseworthy once it has become fashionable. Gregory of Nyssa 330-c.395

If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans-- Mark Struwe

Steven Hawking said, "Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." John Lennox responded, "Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light."

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. Carl Sagan, from Demon-Haunted World (1995)

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.--Tacitus

"You can observe a lot by watching."--Yogi Berra
"Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours."--Yogi Berra
"I really didn't say everything I said."--Yogi Berra
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"--Yogi Berra
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."--Yogi Berra
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03/22/22 Grif.Net - Life Explained

On the first day God created the dog. God said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years." The dog said, "That's too long to be barking. Give me ten years and I'll give you back the other ten."
So, God agreed.
On the second day God created the monkey. God said, "Entertain people, do monkey tricks and make them laugh. I'll give you a twenty-year life span." The monkey said, "Monkey tricks for twenty years? I don't think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that's what I'll do too, okay?"
And God agreed.
On the third day God created the cow. "You must go to the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves, and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a life span of sixty years." The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty and I'll give back the other forty."
And God agreed again.
On the fourth day God created man. God said, "Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. I'll give you twenty years." Man said, "What? Only twenty years? Tell you what, I'll take my twenty, and the forty the cow gave back, and the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back, that makes eighty, okay?"
Okay," said God, "You've got a deal." So that is why the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, and enjoy ourselves; the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family; the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren; and the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained to you.

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ENGLISH
01. The bandage was wound around the wound.
02. The farm was used to produce produce.
03. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
04. We must polish the Polish furniture.
05. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
06. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
07. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
08. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
09. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? (COPIED)

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HOW TO WRITE "GOOD"
01. Avoid Alliteration Always
02. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with
03. Avoid cliches like the plague. They are old hat.
04. Comparisons are a bad as cliches
05. Be more or less specific
06. Writers should never generalize
07. Be consistent!
08. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it is highly superfluous.
09. Who needs rhetorical questions?
10.Exaggerations is a billion times worse than understatment.

If it is too large for your thinking it won't fit into your reality-Nyah Illie Mouton

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions - Emily Mitchum

There were three couples who all died and met with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.
The first couple steps up to St. Peter and St. Peter asks, "What do you wish?"
The man says "I want to go to come into heaven." So St. Peter checks his list and says, "Well, you can't because when you were alive all you wanted was money. Money, money, money. You were so fond of money that you even married a girl named Penny!"
So the first couple leaves and the second couple stepped up and St. Peter said, "What do you wish?"
The second man replied, "I want to come into heaven." So St. Peter checks his list and says, "Well, you can't because when you were alive all you did was drink. Drink, drink, drink. You were so fond of drinking that you even married a girl named Brandy!"
So the second couple leaves
but before St. Peter could ask the third man what he wanted, the third man says to the woman who died with him, his wife, "Well, let's go Fanny."

WARNING SIGNS THAT WE MAY BE DRIFTING FROM GOD OR BEGINNING TO SPIRITUALLY SLIDE.
1. A lack of desire to worship God and you are quick to find excuses not to partake in corporate worship.
2. You find yourself quick to make decisions without consulting God by examining His Word or seeking God in prayer.
3. You find yourself quick to blame others for not serving Christ or doing what you should be doing for the Lord.
4. You begin to tolerate sin in your life that you once confessed and forsook.
5. You struggle to find joy in Christ, in His Word, and with your brothers and sisters in Christ.
6. You find yourself in the state of constantly complaining instead of being thankful for all Christ has done in your life.
7. You become defensive and you take it as an attack if someone expresses concern about your spiritual walk.
8. You are quick to find everyone else's faults but slow to find the ones in your own life.
9. Your frequency of Bible study has been greatly diminished and your prayer life greatly weakened. Dwight L. Moody, "The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible."
10. You begin to isolate from your brothers and sisters in Christ. However, you find yourself insulating yourself with the things in the world.
11. Worldly things begin to take higher priority and the things of God take a back seat. -- by Seth Lackey

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