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Inspiration ~ Encouragement
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- Growth
is found by trading narcotics for inspiration -- Gary L. Thomas
- I make mistakes, but I am not a mistake
-- Unknown
- Winning
doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better
than you've ever done before. -- Bonnie Blair, Olympic speed
skater
- Never confuse a single defeat with a final
defeat. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- We can be confident in our uniqueness. To become the one I am
created to be -- isn't that my great work in life? -- Ingrid
Trobisch
- Maybe you have a hard believing that God
likes you; maybe you don't even like yourself. But it's true.
God not only loves you; He likes you...Take flight and soar with
total God-Confidence! -- Donna Partow
- Even diamonds have flaws. "If ye have faith as in a grain
of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you" --
Matthew 17:20
- Time is limited, so I better wake up every
morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this
particular day right, and to string my days together into a life
of action, and purpose." -- Lance Armstrong (1971- ) US cyclist,
5 time winner of the Tour de France, cancer survivor
- God can do anything, you know -- far more than you could ever
imagine, or guess, or request. He does it not by pushing us around
but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within
us. Perfect love casts out fear. When we have a true revelation
of how much God loves us, we are free.-- "The Message",
a contemporary version of the Bible
- God, who shows you his kindness and who
has called you through Christ Jesus will restore you, stengthen
you, make you strong, and support you as you suffer for a little
while. -- 1 Peter 5:10
- Errors and mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning
process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten.
-- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), Hall of Fame football coach
- The body is a sacred garment. It's your
first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what
you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor. --
Martha Graham
- It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying,
that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. -- B.C.
Forbes, founder & publisher Forbes Magazine
- That which is striking
and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always
beautiful. - Ninon do l'Enclos
- The
Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his
height...The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man
looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart"
- 1 Samuel 16:7-8
- I'm
convinced that God, who began this good work in you, will carry
it through to completion on the day of Christ Jesus. -- Philippians
1:6
- You have me endure many terrible troubles. You restore me to
life again. You bring me back from the depths of the earth.
-- Psalm 71:20
- God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present
help in times of trouble. -- Psalm 54:4
- Do
not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly
set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) French bishop & writer
- Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.
God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is in the
heart of man. -- Dostoyevsky
- It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then,
and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
-- Galatians 5:1
- We live in a fantasy
world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find
reality. - Iris Murdock
- Whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the
veil is taken away. --2 Corithians
3:16
- When we are our best, either
in person or in spirit, we just feel better. Our appearance simply
reflects who we are on the inside. Real, authentic beauty doesn't
reside on the surface, it emanates from within.
--Nancy Stafford
- For the sake of his great name the Lord
will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make
you his own. -- 1 Samuel 12:22
- It's never too late to be
what you might have been.--
George Eliot
- I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving kindness.-- Jeremiah
31:3
- Am I a prisoner of people's
expectations, or liberated by Divine promises? --
Henri Nouwen
- Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done
by hesitation. -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist
& educator
- Each one should
test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself without
comparing himself to somebody else. -- Galatians 6:4 (NIV)
- Deliverance finally comes when you
confront your past and put it in its proper perspective. It happened
to you but it is not you. You survived the trauma; you too can
walk again.-- Serita Ann Jakes
- Self-love is the only weight-loss
aid that really works in the long run. -- Jenny Craig
- "Because
he loves me" says the Lord, "I will rescue him"
-- Psalm 91:14
- The
shell must be cracked if what is in it is to come out, for if
you want the kernel, you must break the shell. -- Meister Eckhart
- The
king is enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your Lord.
-- Psalm 45:11
- Walls
protect and wall limit. It is the nature of the wall that they
should fall. --Jeanette Winterson
- Everything...connected
with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through.
Get rid of it! Let the spirit change your way of thinking. Put
on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness
and holiness. -- Ephesians 4:22-24
- I
had to face facts: I am pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because
I hate pears, specially their shape. -- Charlotte Bingham
- He
knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come
forth as gold. -- Job 23:10
- Until
you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with
what you have. --Doris Mortman
- We
have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are --
yet was without sin. Let us approach the throne of grace with
confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help
us in our time of need. -- Hebrews 4:15-16
- If
the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.-- John 8:36
- Come
with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.--
Mark 6:31
- But
dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the
stuff life is made of. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- The
Lord appeared to me in a faraway place and said, "I love
you with an everlasting love. So I will continue to show you my
kindness." -- Jeremiah 31:3
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In the deserts of the heart let the healing foundation start.
In the prison of his days, teach the free man how to praise. --W.H.Auden
- It
is better to depend on the Lord than to trust mortals. --Psalm
118:8
- Failure
is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently. --
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist, inventor
- One
thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what
is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which
God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.-- Philippians
3:13-14
- When
God's at the center of your life, you worship. When He's not,
you worry. Worry is the warning light that God has been shoved
to the sideline. Put Him back and you shall have peace. --
Dr. Rick Warren
- Live
in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness
God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His
and He will not forget you. -- John of the Cross
- I
have held many things in my hands and lost them all; but whatever
I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. -- Martin
Luther
- I
know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting
devotion to the things you want to see happen. -- Frank Lloyd
Wright (1869-1959)
- A
cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up
the bones-- Proverbs 17:22
- Man
must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn
again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility. --
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) medical missionary, Nobel Peace
Prize winner
- The meaning of
life is to give life meaning. -- Eating Disorders Anonymous
- It
is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca
- Today
is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it.
-- Mary Pickford
- Pain
is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life. -- Charles
Lamb
- Don't
find fault, find a remedy. -- Henry Ford
- I
don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying
to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby
- We
are what we repeatedly do. -- Aristotle (384bc-322bc)
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. -- Lance Armstrong
(1971- ) U.S. cyclist, 6-time winner of the Tour de France cancer
survivor
Blessings
Everywhere
By Grace E. Easley
When
life starts to get you down, Smile away that gloomy frown.
If you stumble
now and then, Get right up and start again.
You can have
a sunny day, Even if the clouds are gray.
It all depends
upon your view, Which way the world appears to you.
When you are
tired of phony folks, Check your wheels and mend your spokes.
Get your wagon
rolling where Hearts are warm and people care.
Waste not hours,
months and years on bitterness and foolish tears.
You’re fashioned
from a master plan
Designed when
God created man. There’s more to you than meets the eye
They only fail
who never try,
Make your life
a microscope To magnify each joy and hope.
Square your shoulders,
lift your chin. Toss your troubles to the wind.
And the blessings
you receive Even you will not believe
A
happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.
-- Proverbs 15:13
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