“To draw near to the one all-beautiful being, Christ; to know Him as our spirits may know the Spirit; to receive the breath of His infinitely loving life into mine, that I might breathe out that fragrance again into the lives around me—this was the longing wish that, half hidden from myself, lay deep beneath all other desires of my soul.” -Lucy Larcom
“The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation shall continue to live.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1942
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: “Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time.” When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, “The one I feed the most.” (George Bernard Shaw)
“God without man is still God; man without God is nothing.”
“The best way to face life’s changes is
to look to the unchanging God.”
“Faith can move mountains, but a lack of faith makes them out of mole hills.” -the Ziggy comic 
GRACE is: God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense
“You cannot break God’s promises by leaning on them.”
“Let any clever woman simply take it to heart to make everybody about her as happy as she can, and the result will always be wonderful.”
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.”
-George MacDonald
“The Titanic was built by professionals:
The Ark was built by amateurs.”
“We must not allow the circumstances and disappointments in our lives to become excuses for the choices we make in life.” -Pastor Bill Conn
“I recall stating to a friend, ‘I hear you lost your wife. I am very sorry.’ My friend replied, ‘No, I didn’t lose her. You can’t lose something when you know where it is. And I know where she is.’” -Warren Wiersbe
“The Christian cannot be satisfied as long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of all connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations, but also all of human thought. The Christian, therefore, cannot be indifferent to any branch of earnest endeavor. It must all be brought into some relation to the gospel. It must be studied either in order to be demonstrated as false, or else in order to be made useful in advancing the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.” -J. Gresham Machen, 20th-century theologian
“One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. And sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: that in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school, and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God.” -Abraham Kuyper, 19th-century Dutch statesman
The Best Thing to Give To…
Your enemy is forgiveness;
An opponent, tolerance;
A friend, your ear;
Your child, a good example;
Your father, reverence;
Your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
Yourself, respect;
All men, charity.
-Ben Franklin
“I am struck with the contrast between Christ’s mode of gathering people to Himself and the way practiced by Alexander the Great, by Julius Caesar, and by myself. The people have been gathered to us by fear; they were gathered to Christ by love. Alexander, Caesar, and I have been men of war; but Christ was the Prince of Peace. The people have been driven to us; they were drawn to Him. In our case there has been forced conscription; in His there was free obedience…Jesus Christ alone founded His empire upon love, and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte (1761-1821)
“We have to remember, God created time—
it’s not gonna run out while He’s in control of it.”
-Dustin Blumenstein
“We need to see and trust the power of God to turn all our detours and obstacles into glorious outcomes. In other words, the strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.” -John Piper
“God may seem late but His timing is perfect.”
“God always answers prayer—
it’s either ‘Yes’, ‘No’, or ‘Wait’.”
“Abortion would be all about a woman’s choice… If there wasn’t another human being involved, with his/her very existence hinging on that woman’s choice. That’s a huge ‘if,’ and what comes after it nullifies what comes before.” -Aaron Wilkinson
| C | ourage |
| H | onesty |
| A | ccountability |
| R | esponsibility |
| A | uthenticity |
| C | ompassion |
| T | rustworthiness |
| E | xcellence |
| R | everence |
| -a poster seen in a “Best to You” catalog | |
An Athlete’s Prayer
Words of Champions, quoted in “Apple Seeds©”
Help me to play the game, dear Lord, with all my might and main;
Grant me the courage born of right, a heart to stand the strain…
Send me a sense of humor, Lord, to laugh when victory’s mine;
To laugh, if I should meet defeat, without a fret or whine…
Give me the grace to follow rules, to ‘fess up when I’m wrong,
When silence or some other thing wins plaudits from the throng…
When foes are tough and fighting fierce and I am getting weak,
Dear God, don’t ever let me show a broad, bright yellow streak.
And teach me, Lord, life’s game to play just one day at a time.
With Thee as coach and trainer, Lord, real victory must be mine.
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