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Date Posted: 14:25:59 09/26/00 Tue
Author: Steve S.
Author Host/IP: cx209938-a.okc1.ok.home.com / 24.6.25.42
Subject: Quotes

It is not the length of your stride but the measures of strides in your walk that keeps us faithful."
Pam Preston

"Faith is walking through the darkness knowing the Son shall rise again."
Bob Preston

"Faith is giving what you don't have, knowing God will take care of your needs."
Bob Preston

"Faith is not just slowing down to smell God's sweet fragrance in the air, but stopping to see the splendor of His handywork."
Pam Preston

"Faith is our shield in the battle against sin."
Bob Preston

"Faith is not believing what you see, but seeing Him when others don't."
Bob Preston

"There are two days in our life we can't change, yesterday and tomorrow."
Author Unknown

"We often times fail to recognize ones work until after they are gone."
Author Unknown

"Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
James Thurber

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure."
Author Unknown

"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle."
Thomas Jefferson

"Do your best. There is no goal better achieved than that."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Every artist was at first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden

"Honesty is the soul of business."
Dutch proverb

"Storms make oaks take deeper root."
George Herbert

"Do not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."
Rabindranath Tagore

"Their are no hopeless situations, only men who have become hopeless."
Author Unknown

"No man has ever choked to death swallowing his own pride."
Author Unknown

"If you cross your bridges before you come to them, you'll still be on the same side of the river."
Author Unknown

"Hands build houses, hearts build homes."
Author Unknown

"Satan can build a wall around us, and often does, but he can never put a lid on it. So, keep looking up!"
Author Unknown

"Its impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the bible."
George Washington

"You cannot kindle a fire in any ones heart until it is burning within your own."
Author Unknown

"He stands best who kneels most."
Author Unknown

"God puts the church in the world; Satan puts the world in the church."
Author Unknown

"To realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the storm."
Author Unknown

"Great trials are often necessary to prepare us for great responsibilities."
Author Unknown

"The Lord wants our precious time, not our spare time."
Author Unknown

"The crown of the home is Godliness, the beauty of the home is order, the glory of the home is hospitality: the blessing of the home is contentment."
Henry Van Dyke

"To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires."
Jeremy Taylor

"Let not your heart be troubled... In my Father's house are many mansions..."
John 14: 1-2

"Plan ahead, it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark! We should make plans counting on God to direct us."
Author Unknown

"Be persuaded that your only treasures are those which you carry in your heart."
Demophilus

"A beautiful woman appeals to the eye: a good woman appeals to the heart. One is a jewel, the other a treasure."
Napoleon

"Seek home for rest, for home is best."
Thomas Tusser

The best thing to give to:
Your enemy is forgiveness;
An opponent, tolerance
A friend, your heart
Your child, a good example
Yourself, respect
All men, charity.
Author Unknown

Happiness:
"The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so."
Author Unknown

"All one can do is leave open a window so the breeze of love... may come in."
Joel Kramer

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."
Author Unknown

"Anyone can build an altar, it requires God to provide the flame, anybody can build a house, it takes God to build a home."
Author Unknown

"Three things are to be looked to in a building; That it stands on the right spot,
That it be securely founded,That it be successfully executed."
Author Unknown

"Cherish your children for what they are, not for what you'd like them to be."
Author Unknown

"Send your mother-in-law flowers on your wife's birthday."
Author Unknown

"Everyone loves praise, look hard for ways to give it to them."
Author Unknown

"Judge your success by the happiness of your wife and the respect given to you by your children."
Author Unknown

"Hold your child's hand every chance you get. The time will come all too soon when he or she won't let you."
Author Unknown

"Marriage is an empty box, it remains empty unless you put in more than you take out."
Author Unknown

"Most evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except that it is still missing."
Author Unknown

"A Christian is a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, a hand through which Christ helps."
Author Unknown

"A Christian should be like a good watch (open faced, busy hands, well regulated and full of good works)."
Author Unknown

"It isn't the style of the bible that makes it unpopular with moderns, but the fact that it cramps their style."
Author Unknown

"If you don't stand for something, you fall for everything."
Author Unknown

"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make Earth happy like our heaven above."
Author Unknown

"The fellow who is willing to climb upward, one step at a time usually reaches the top of the ladder."
Author Unknown

"If you will be prayerful, you'll be careful."
Author Unknown

"Bible: Basic instruction before leaving Earth."
Author Unknown

"The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well."
Author Unknown

"The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom."
Author Unknown

"The test of a first-rate work is that you finish it."
Author Unknown

"Dreams don't work unless you do."
Author Unknown

"Clear your mind of can't."
Author Unknown

"Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes you."
Author Unknown

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once."
Author Unknown

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Author Unknown

"Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
Author Unknown

"Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing."
Author Unknown

"A statue has never been set up in honor of a critic."
Author Unknown

"You can accomplish more in one hour with God than one lifetime without him."
Author Unknown

"A great man is always willing to be little."
Author Unknown

"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."
Author Unknown

"An unused life is an early death."
Author Unknown

"In the long run men hit only what the aim at."
Author Unknown

"Find out what you love to do and you will never have to work another day in your life."
Author Unknown

"Experience is not what happens to a man, its what a man does with what happens to him."
Author Unknown

"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be the boss."
Author Unknown

"Develop the hunter's attitude, ...wherever you go, there are ideas waiting to be discovered."
Author Unknown

"Take first things first. That process often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions."
Author Unknown

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of rear. Not the absence of fear."
Author Unknown

"The business of finding fault is very easy, and that of doing better very difficult."
Author Unknown

"Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" a leader says "let's go!"
Author Unknown

"Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to."
Author Unknown

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Author Unknown

"A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Author Unknown

"Life can't give me joy and peace; it's up to me to will it. Life just gives me time and space; it's up to me to fill it."
Author Unknown

"Never allow your sense of self to become associated with your sense of job. If your job vanishes, your self doesn't."
Author Unknown

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
Author Unknown

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
Author Unknown

"He that has learned to obey will know how to command."
Author Unknown

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
Author Unknown

"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care... about them."
Author Unknown

"You cannot steal second base while keeping one foot on first base."
Author Unknown

"The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief."
Author Unknown

"Be great in the little things."
Author Unknown

"Opportunities are seldom labeled."
Author Unknown

"Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end, of miseries."
Author Unknown

"I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything."
Author Unknown

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
Author Unknown

"A great deal of good can be done in the world if one is not too careful who gets the credit."
Author Unknown

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."
Author Unknown

"Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see."
Author Unknown

"Good words are worth much, and cost little."
Author Unknown

"I don't know the secret to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
Author Unknown

"It's the job that's never started that takes longest to finish."
Author Unknown

"Business is like a wheelbarrow. Nothing ever happens until you start pushing."
Author Unknown

"The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
Author Unknown

"The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself."
Author Unknown

"No one ever said on their deathbed: I wish I would have spent more time at work."
Author Unknown

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
Author Unknown

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Author Unknown

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience."
Author Unknown

"When you soar like an eagle, you attract hunters."
Author Unknown

"Those that have done nothing in life are not qualified to be judge of those that have done little."
Author Unknown

"Every Christian needs half an hour of prayer each day except when he is busy. Then he needs an hour."
Author Unknown

"Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God."
Author Unknown

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp."
Author Unknown

"Anybody can do their best. God helps us to do better than our best."
Author Unknown

"Shallow men believe in luck... strong men believe in cause and effect."
Author Unknown

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Re: Quotes -- TALA, 19:33:14 01/09/06 Mon