Quotin'

Favorite Quotations

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night in a closed room with a mosquito. ~African saying

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

(saw on dorm room at Messiah College)

"My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ

and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it."
— Brennan Manning (The Ragamuffin Gospel)

When you rise in life your friends will know who you are
When you fall down, you know who are your friends.

God grant me the serenity to accept the PEOPLE I can't change, the courage to change the ONE I can, & the wisdom to know it's ME

Apparently, we’re supposed to be more outraged by what Romney does with his money than by what Obama does with ours.

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking about yourself less."

Never trade what you want at the moment for what you want the most.(Maxwell Leadership Bible)

How does one become a butterfly?..You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.(Trina Paulus)

It is never too late to be what you might have been.(George Elliot)

"It is not my ability, but my response to God's

ability, that counts." - Corrie Ten Boom

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers".

"A woman's heart should be so close to the Lord

that a man should have to seek Him to find her!"

The happiest people don't have the best of everything,

they just make the best of everything they have

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life,

that no man can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall."- Nadine Stair

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."- Dr. Seuss
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If Jesus meant for His followers to rule the world, then why did He teach them to wash feet? - Barbara Brown Taylor

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like

having a peeing section in a pool.

It took me a long time to learn that God is not the enemy of my enemies. He is not even the enemy of His enemies - Martin Niemoller

God expects more failure from us than we

expect from ourselves. - Brennan Manning

Jesus didn't hang on the cross in case you need him,

he hung on the cross because you desperately need him. - Serena Woods

The American by nature is optomistic, experimental and an inventor who builds best when called upon to build greatly. Arouse his will to believe in himself and give him a goal to believe in and he will create the means to reach it. This trait of the American character is our greatest single national asset. It is time that we rescue it from the sea of fat in which it has been drowning and it is time that we get on with the business of being true to the work of a chosen people, a people who voluntarily assume the burden and glory of advancing mankind's best hopes. John F. Kennedy