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

Helen Keller

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Earl Nightingale

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Theodore Roosevelt

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Walt Disney

The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.

Kristin Armstrong

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

– John Wesley

“Consider how precious a soul must be when both God and the devil are after it.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The man [or woman] who would know God must spend time with Him.

– AW Tozer

Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

– St. Augustine

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Donald Trump

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Jesus Christ

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23

"I can do all things through him who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When Our Faith Is Under Attack

There are times when our faith comes under attack and times when we find discouragement overtaking us. No one can escape those occasional times that test everything within us.

Let me encourage you to hold fast to your faith. To recall and bring to memory all the ways that God has blessed you and increased your faith in the past. Within such, you will begin to again focus on the very things that have seen you through the seasons of the past. The God things.

Dwell upon Him - It is good to dwell upon the Lord and bring into remembrance His loving kindness and faithfulness towards us.
Blessings are found when we remember all that God has done for us … give Him thanks and bless His Wonderful name.

Now go share all that God has done for you with someone else that they may be blessed.

From the book, Everyday Christian Living: Words Of Wisdom Based On Godly Principles.

Everyday Christian Living: Words Of Wisdom Based On Godly Principles

Awake, Arise and Enjoy Life

So maybe yesterday wasn't a perfect day. I've been there. We all have bad days and sometimes weeks that we'd just soon forget.
Let me encourage you in this. Yesterday is gone and today is here. It's a new day. Smile and be happy. Don't let the yesterdays of life ruin your todays. Enjoy today and make the best of it and look forward to tomorrow being an even better day. Put your faith and trust in God who loves and cares for you.

From the book, Everyday Christian Living: Words Of Wisdom Based On Godly Principles.

Everyday Christian Living: Words Of Wisdom Based On Godly Principles

And God Did

Remember the story of Faithful Abraham in Genesis. Abraham was to sacrifice his son. Yet something interesting happened at the foot of the mountain where Abraham was to sacrifice his son.

Abraham approached the lads and said, “…watch the donkeys, the boy and I go yonder, worship and come unto you again.” Interesting.

Then on the way up the mount, father we have this, and we have that, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering, the son asked.

Abraham's reply: Gen 22:8, And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering”, so they went both of them together.

And God did. Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.

From the book, Everyday Christian Living: Words Of Wisdom Based On Godly Principles.

Everyday Christian Living: Words Of Wisdom Based On Godly Principles

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

Remember, we can all make a difference in the lives of others.

Sometimes we have to let go and let God take control because He always has a better plan.

With the New Year comes a new season. A season of newness.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

May God be the wind in your sails. - Kingdom Expansion

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

Helen Keller

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

John C. Maxwell

"He found that the child stood wide-eyed and breathless before the miracle of bird and creature, of flower and tree, of wind and rain and sun and moon, as he had always stood."

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Mattie Stepanek

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalms 91:1-16