And I Quote

There are people who make no mistakes because they never try to do anything.” ~Goethe

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And I Quote

“A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God’s boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it.” ~D. L. Moody

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“Live so that you wouldn’t be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.” ~Will Rogers

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“Be yourself—everyone else is already taken.” ~Oscar Wilde

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“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent” ~Jean Kerr

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“He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christ will change the face of the world.” ~Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin is said to be the most godless of the founding fathers, yet he made the above statement as well as others recognizing the presence of God. What a difference from our leaders today!

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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”~Bill Cosby

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“Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.” ~Henry van Dyke

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“Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” ~Mary Tayler Moore

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“Our actions are seen by people, but our motives are monitored by God” ~Franklin Graham

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“But though life’s valley be vale of tears,
A brighter scene beyond that vale appears,
Whose glory, with a light that never fades,
Shoots between scattered rocks and opening shades.”
~Cowper

The song “Sunrise” by Nicole Nordeman is similar to the quote above. It’s been a real encouragement to me, and I hope it will be to you as well.

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“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” ~The Apostle Paul, inspired by God, written in a letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 10

This was one of the verses that we looked at at church. The pastor likened us, God’s workmanship, to wood in the hands of a master carpenter. I prefer to think of us as fabric and notions in the hands of a master sewer…

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And I Quote

I would like to post a quote on my blog every Sunday, and maybe some of my thoughts on it. Here’s the first:

“What we are afraid to do before men, we should be afraid to think before God.” ~Beilby Porteus

Amen! is all I can say.

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