"What if your greatest dream happened? Would it make the world a better place?" 

 ~ Erwin McManus

"Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting" 

~ unknown

"A possibility was born the day you were born, and it will live as long as you live." 

~ Marcus Solero

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

~ Douglas Adams

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

~ C.S. Lewis

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours." 

~ Joyce Maynard

"Much of what God allows in your life is not for you to simply accept, but to get you to rise up! God wants you to know how to wield the weapons of warfare, how to take a stand, and how to fight."

~Stasi Eldridge in Captivating

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

“When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.” — Tyler Perry

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - John Bowring

“Human life would seem to consist in that in which each man most delights, that for which he especially strives, and that which he particularly wishes to share with his friends.”

~ Thomas Aquinas

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." 

~ Erica Jong

"Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home."

~ Melody Beattie

Seen on a church marquis:

"If you don't have time to pray, you become easy prey."

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

~ Howard Thurman

So, maybe God does have a wise purpose in letting us grow old and weak:

"I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty which is forever. And so we'll be eager to leave the temporary, deteriorating part of us and be truly homesick for our eternal home. If we stayed young and strong and beautiful, we might never want to leave."

~ J. Robertson McQuilkin

former president of Columbia Bible College in SC

(seen in Our Daily Bread, June 10, 2009)

"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."

~ George Iles

"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."

~ Peter McWilliams

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

~ Robert Frost

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

~ Oscar Wilde