Quotes

God who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.  C.S. Lewis

Worry gives a little thing a big shadow.


Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere. 

Why worry when you can pray?

You're blessed to be a blessing!

Regardless of your circumstances, keep your joy alive today by staying focused on God.  Richard Daly

Don't waste good problems!  Otto Koning

God turns a test into a testimony.

Sometimes you feel like you are being buried, when you are actually being planted.

There is nothing more important than your personal relationship with God.

We not be able to control our circumstances, but our circumstances don't have to control us.

We can trust a wise, loving, sovereign God to control every circumstance in our lives.


God will make this trial a blessing.

Suffering is the textbook which will teach you who you really are.  

In the waiting moments, trust Him.

A splashover of heaven is finding Jesus in your splashover of hell. Joni Eareckson Tada

When things go wrong, don't go wrong with them! 

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffereing--more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.   John Piper

When God measures a man, he puts the tape around the heart instead of the head.

Your companions are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down.

Some people complain because God puts thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns.

A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

God can heal a broken heart, but he has to have all the pieces.

The trouble with the guy who talks to fast is that he often says something he hasn't thought of yet.

The best way to get the last word is to apologize.

The train of failure usually runs on the track of laziness.

When confronted with a Goliath-sized problem, which way do you respond: "He's too big to hit," or like David, "He's too big to miss?"

What you are at home is what you are!

Trials are supposed to make us better not bitter.

When life throws you a lemon are you going to suck on it till you become really sour yourself, or are you going to make lemonade?

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
   -Corrie ten Boom

Too blessed to be depressed.

People were made to be loved. Things were made to be used. The reason the world is in such chaos today is that things are being loved and people are being used.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

 Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.   Purple quotes are by Helen Keller who was deaf and blind.

Your blessings brighten when you count them!

Be anxious about nothing, prayerful about everything and thankful about anything.

Entertainment/leisure time is like a medicine. The right amount is good, but an overdose is deadly.


What you cannot say to a person's face in love and for the glory of God, you cannot say at all. For if you do, you are a coward and a grief to God.

If sin isn't tragic to you, you're a tragedy.

The truly great are the God-possessed!

Humility is something you lose the moment you think you have it.

Being dependable is highly recommendable.

We'd worry less what others think about us, if we realized how seldom they do.

To be just is a must.

Winners never quit; Quitters never win.

The act that lacks tact is as pointed as a tack.

A good traffic rule for the road of life; when you meet temptation, keep to the right.

A merry laugh and a cheerful phrase; make for pleasant happy days.

Every girl can keep house better than her mother until she tries.

Some people are so contrary that if they fell into a river, they would insist on swimming upstream!

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running people down, and pushing their own wheelbarrow.

Even a pin uses its head to prevent it from going to far.

Gossip is due to the fact that there are more talkers than thinkers.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Courteousy is contagious---Let's start an epidemic.

God made us to soar like eagles, but we are content to scratch like sparrows.

He who pursues two hares will catch neither.

You may do miracles by persevering.

When you were born, people around you were smiling while you were crying, so live your life in such a way that when you die, people around you will be crying while you are smiling!

Learn from the mistakes of others; you won't live long enough to make them all yourself!

Remember; God answers every kneemail!

Your tongue weights practically nothing, but can you hold it?

When dealing with yourself, use your head. When dealing with others, use your heart.

A friend writeth at all times!!

Think all what you speak, but speak not all you think!

Love is a fabric that never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.



Anger is just one letter short of danger.

The Lord gives us the faces but we provide the expressions.

Let us not pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Love is the doorway through which we pass from selfishness to service.

A friend will strengthen you with their prayers, bless you with their love and encourage you with their hope.

He who keeps off the ice will not slip.

To invite Satan is easy,
To dismiss him is hard.