You will never be called upon to give anyone more grace than God has already given you.

~ Max Lucado

Give It All To Him

What you are is God's gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to God.

~ Unknown

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

~ Lawrence J. Peter

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

~ Helen Keller

They are ill discoverers who think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

~ Francis Bacon

commitment

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

~ W. H. Murray

Leader of the Scottish Himalaya Expedition

No man is so worthless that he can't be used as a bad example.

We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.

~ Persian proverb

Problems don't go away by themselves, but opportunities do.

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

~ Nancy Reagan

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.

~Norman Cousins

If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, you always know which one you hit.

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "...Holy shit! ...What a ride!"

~ unknown

"What people in the world think of you is really none of your business."

~ Martha Graham

If you haven't learned by now that God is a rule-breaker, then you don't know Him very well.

~ Michael Card

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's the day-to-day living that wears you out.

~ Chekov

"Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God?"

~ Galatians 2:21

(The Message)

In America today, we worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship.

~ Chuck Swindoll