When Jesus Christ is the source of our joy, no words can describe it.
From Philippians 4:4-7: “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
From Matthew 26:45-46: “Then He returned to the disciples and said to them, ‘Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!'”
We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Live truth instead of professing it.
When Jesus asks His followers to be like salt, He is reminding us that we are valuable and necessary in bringing out the best–in one another as well as the world–through ordinary acts of service, mercy, love, and humility.
From Mark 9:49-50: “For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for which is true.
Having a contagious, positive attitude toward God does not mean living unrealistically where you tell everybody nice, upbeat things all the time, whether they are true or not.
From Joel 3:16: “The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.”
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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