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Inspiration ~ Encouragement
- 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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