Complaining of our circumstances without doing anything about it is like being that guy in line who can’t decide what he wants. Just order and move on.
Over time those wonderful memories begin to fade and eventually become like dreams that we sometimes wonder whether they actually happened. Were it the same for pain.
Don’t pray for something to leave you without praying for something to fill you. Remember power abhors a vacuum. Praying away despair without praying for joy only brings back despair in greater abundance.
In the great race of life, it’s not how you look when you finish but rather by the grace and character in which you lived it.
Have you served someone today?
The greatest treasures are found not in the things we obtain but in the depths of the generosity of our own hearts.
If you believe in a universal balance in life, just remember when you choose to take you make someone have to give.
Authority and responsibility, you can’t have one without the other.
Life is like a bacon and egg breakfast. While most people want to be the chicken only a few will stand up to be the pig.
If you never doubt your convictions or beliefs, I submit you have neither. Doubt instills a desire to pursue our beliefs beyond our own capacity to understand.
Praise in public and punish in private. To do anything else breeds resentment, distrust and discouragement.
If it’s not worth resolving it’s not worth discussing.
If your faith creates barriers between you and others then all you’ve really done is build a wall between you and God.
Replay your favorite songs over and over, not your greatest disappointments.
No matter what you might think or believe, you are NEVER alone.
Everyone believes in something, even the belief there is no God. Because no amount of science or reason can prove them.
A smile is one of the most powerful weapons known to man.
Greet with praise and a kind heart those who do the small and seemingly menial tasks, because it’s upon their shoulders that our society rests.
When I tell you I’m a Christian please don’t hear “I’m going to heaven and you’re not because you suck and I’m better than you.” All I’m really saying is “I’m a flawed, broken person that is struggling through my sinful nature, that I believe Jesus died to redeem us, that I’m on a constant journey to understand and grow my faith and that I’d love to have you come along with me if you’d like.” Really, that’s all.
Whether positive or negative, any experience that doesn’t come with a lesson probably isn’t worth remembering.
Remember, when we pray to be more courageous, compassionate and loving God will create situations that will require us to be just that. Careful what you pray for. :-)
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