~ Chuck Swindoll / his study in Daniel
• “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "When it is the darkest, men see the stars."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Passion is in the risk. "
~ When in Rome
• "If you're going to be a bear, be grizzly."
• “All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost”
J.R.R. Tolkien
• "FAITH is like a pair of night vision glasses; FAITH helps you see in the dark. "
~ Pas Steven Davies on Hall of Faith passage
• He wants us to be, not hothouse plants, but storm-beaten oaks; not sand dunes driven with every gust of wind, but granite rocks withstanding the fiercest storms. Better the storm with Christ than smooth waters without Him.
~ Streams in the Desert I / Feb 28
• "Fear is like sand in machinery where faith is like oil. Faith lubricates life."
~ Pastor Adrian Rogers
• "FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real"
~ Zig Ziggler
• "If you are simply obeying the LORD, all the responsibility will rest on Him, not on you!" ~ Hudson Taylor
• “Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing.”
~ Hudson Taylor
• “All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.”
~ Hudson Taylor
• “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.”
~ Hudson Taylor
• "STRESS = amt of demands > amt of my strength".
~ Pastor Adrian Rogers
• "Nothing, without first a dream."
- Carl Sandburg
• “I still find each day too short for the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.”
~ John Burroughs
• “As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart one over.”
~ James Boswell
• "darkness canNOT chase away the Light!"
• "No victory without a battle. No character without a conflict. No understanding without suffering."
~ Elizabeth Elliott
• "A life that is too easy is not good for the soul."
~ Archibald Hart
• "it's much easier for friends to become lovers than for lovers to become friends."
• "Scriptures forecast storm warnings for all believers."
"Storms reveal your root systems."
~ Dennis Rainey / are you ready?/ Storms of Life
• "It's what you sow that multiples, not what you keep in the barn."
~ Pastor Adrian Rogers
• "God always gives His Best to those who leave the choice with Him."
~ Hudson Taylor
• "Submission is an attitude not an action. It isn't what you do but WHY you do it."
~ Pastor Ken Ford
• "satan canNOT create. He can only twist & distort what God created as good."
~ Randy Alcorn
• "Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness."
~ Max Lucado / Cure for the Common Life
• "Stress is focusing on the storm instead of on God."
~ Pastor Adrian Rogers
• "The grass is greener where it's watered." 🌱
• "My mind can be a factory of fear or a fountain of faith. What will it be?"
~ Patsy Claremont
• "The oak indwells the acorn."
~ Max Lucado
• "to make honey a young bee needs a young flower.
~ karate kid I
• "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought it was only one.'"
~ CS Lewis
• "the wisest person in church? the one who is most submissive to the Scriptures."
~ Pastor Steven Davey / study of Proverbs
• "Because man cannot kill God, they kill the image of God."
~ Pastor Steven Davey
• "Where God does not rule, God overrules."
~Pastor Adrain Rogers/ on God-Given PEACE in storms
• "If love is blind then sex is a blindfold."
~ Ron Deal / don't be deceived - wait for marriage.
• "We are into microwaving. God is into marinating."
~ Brady Boyd
• You will "discover that when you lie close to the heart of someone or someplace for a long time, you hear and see what others don't. The secrets taught by holding on & hanging in there turn out to be exactly what you were looking for." ~ Marlee Ledai
• "is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
~ Corrie Ten Boom
• "Let God's Promises shine on your problems."
~ Corrie Ten Boom
• "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear."
~ Corrie Ten Boom
• “Let them miss you.
Sometimes when you’re always available,
they take you for granted because they think you’ll always stay."
• "It is the shelter of each other that people live."
~ Irish Proverb
• "Let your mess become His Message."
• "Heroes are born in war time."
• "Trials are proof of God's Love."
~ Dr.James MacDonald
• "the greatest submission of our will to God's Authority is when He says NO not when He says yes." ~ Stephen Davey
• "If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it."
~ Bill Cosby
• "Laugh out loud. It helps flush out the nervous system."
– Chuck Swindoll
• "worry is pulling tomorrow's clouds over today's sunshine."
• "disappointment should be spelled 'God's appointment'".
• "when love is FELT, the message is heard."
• "Show them what you love. "
• "It is difficult to make a man miserable when he feels he is worthy of himself & claims kindred to the great God who made him."
~ Abraham Lincoln
• “True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”
— Isabel Allende
• "I fall in love with people’s passion. The way their eyes light up when they talk about the thing they love and the way they fill with light.”
~Unknown
• "The secret to the filling a man lies in learning to express love THROUGH YOUR FEELINGS, not necessarily through your actions."
~ John Gray
• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “My God…I have thanked you 1000 times for my roses…teach me the value of my thorns…Show me that my tears have made my rainbow.”
~George Matheson
• "God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest."
~ Max Lucado
• "Faith is the refusal to panic."
• "Do you have a relationship with the Word to cause a revolution in your world?"
~ Stephen Davy / Wisdom of the Heart
• "Whatever the sin issue there is an idolatry at the heart of it."
~ Phil Ryken
• "God designed you to think of one thought at a time so if you are thinking on what is right, you cannot think on what is wrong."
~ paraphrase of Adrian Rogers's Right Thinking
• “Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge
• “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge
• "Storms are not an option but fear is."
~Max Lucado's Fear Not
• "only a pure clean heart can see the activity of a Holy God."
~ Stephen Davy
• "Discipline isn't to change behavior but to remind the child that the ways of death is destruction."
~ Dr Dan Allender
• "Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."
CS Lewis
• "You never have to worry because with God you will never get lost in the crowd no matter who you are."
~ Pastor Stephen Davey
• "God's answer to any & all of our questions is the revelation of Himself."~ Elizabeth Elliot
• "You can choose your sin. You canNOT choose your consequences."
~ Pastor Stephen Davey
• “If more of us valued food and cheer and song over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
• "God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him."
~ John Piper
• "Our Christianity must have sound AND picture."
~ Pastor Stephen Davey on James 1:22-27
• "Our example OUTLIVES our achievements."
~ Pastor Swindoll
• "Submission is the highest form of respect."
• "Submission is ducking so that God can hit your husband."
~ Lysa TerKeurst
• "examine everything for the fingerprints of God" / family mo
• "God uses broken sticks to make straight lines."
~ Dr. Carl Wiener
• Praise is the language of Heaven better get fluent here on earth.
• "Men TRUST a God by RISKING. Women TRUST God by WAITING."
~ Karen McCully
• "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extrodanary destiny."
C S Lewis
• "If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes."
—Corrie ten Boom
• "So I decided not to give my life to that Character (God), I was going to run it myself and of course anyone who makes that decision is actually worshiping themselves and has a fool for a deity." ~ Douglas Gresham stepson of CS Lewis
• "God uses a word that doesn't talk about falling in love, He uses a word about choosing to love. Biblical love isn't about attraction; it's about determination. It isn't about working it up rather it is about willing it out. "
~ Stephen Davey
• "No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care."
• "God designed us to be EMPTY without Him."
~ Pastor Chuck Swindoll
• "Only Christ can allow you to take a disadvantage & make it into an advantage for the Glory of God."
~ Ravi Zacherias Jesus Among Other gods
• "You can tell a lot about a man by what makes him sad, mad, & glad."
~ Pastor Adrian Rogers
• The Christmas season highlights the stunning reminder that God keeps His promises. And not only are His ways amazing, they’re also surprising; He chooses to use common people and everyday events to work the miraculous. But any time that God interrupts our lives in a supernatural way . . . it’s a lot to take in.
~ Pastor Chuck Swindoll
• "Are you the kind of woman that a man would die for?" ~ J Vernon McGee
• "God is using all of your experiences, both good & bad, to develop your character to match your calling."
~ Lysa TerKeurst
• "every story whispers His Name"~Sally Lloyd-Jones
• “If they miss you, they’ll call. If they want you, they’ll say it. If they care, they’ll show it. And if not, they aren’t worth your time.”
• Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
~ JRR Tolkin
~Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Boy, do I love to collect quotes. I am such a thinker and I love to listen to some favorite Bible teachers and Bible podcasts. How my brain whirls!!!!
