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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Quotes

The Enabler

Moses spoke to the Lord. He said, "Lord, I've never been a good speaker. And I haven't gotten any better since you spoke to me. I don't speak very well at all." The LORD said to him, "Who makes a man able to talk? Who makes him unable to hear or speak? Who makes him able to see? Who makes him blind? It is I, the Lord. Now go. I will help you speak. I will teach you what to say."
- Exodus 4:10-12

But the Sick

"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
- Jesus Christ

Pursue

Pursue THE One who is pursuing you.

Proverbs 22:1-2

A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.  Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all.

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Isaiah 52:7

How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, And says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

Proverbs 3:1-5

My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity. Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Poverty

"I learned in my cildhood in Africa that a child may be born in poverty, but poverty is never born in a child."
- Dr. Wess Stafford, President & CEO of Compassion International

A Child

It takes a village to raise a child, it takes one act of evil to distroy a child.

1 Peter 4:7-8

The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer. Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

Shine

The sun never stops shining, things simply get in it's way and cover it's shine.

Representation

You are the physical: living, walking, breathing representation of Christ.

Marines

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.
- President Ronald Reagan

 

Boat

Every wonder what it would have been like to be on the boat, in the stormy waters, with the One who purposed it?

Fear

The fear of God is the death of every other fear.
C. H. Spurgeon

Constant

"There is one thing in life that is constant, that is love."
John 15:13 - Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Learn

"We should learn from others only if proven to be true."

Jeremiah 51:15

"He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding..."

Mark 10:9

"Therefore, what God has joined together let not man separate."

Strength

Strength is for service, not status.

Isaiah 58:10

...if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

Psalm 4:6-7

Why is everyone hungry for more? "More, more," they say. "More, more." I have God's more-than-enough, more joy in one ordinary day.

Proverbs 28:6

"Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse."

Miraculous

"There is nothing miraculous about the things that we can explain."
- Oswald Chambers

Work to Live

"Do you live to work or work to live?"

Faith

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
- Hebrews 11:1

The Way

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
- Jesus Christ

Goethe

"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be."

Eternity

"Ask yourself this, what is the one thing that you love here on earth? Can you actually live without it for eternity?"

Live

"To live is Christ and to die is gain."
- The Apostle Paul

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