Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectation.
Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
Ohio native Jack Nicklaus (born 1940) is considered by many to be the greatest American professional golfer. Born in Columbus and later attending The Ohio State University, his accomplishments are too numerous to count.
Discipleship is a decision to live by what I know about God, not by what I feel about Him or myself or my neighbors.
From Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His–completely.
From 2 Chronicles 16:9: “ For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the entire earth, to strengthen those whose heart is true to Him.”
When in doubt, stand still.
Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for you having been there.
What is missing from c h _ _ c h ?
From Romans 12:4-5: “For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.”
The world makes all kinds of promises about love, acceptance, and self-worth, but they never last. Only Jesus can fill our empty souls for eternity.
From John 4:13-14: “Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.'”
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
English novelist and journalist, George Orwell (1903-1950), was an outspoken political commentator, but he was much better known for his literary works, including the novels 1984 and ANIMAL FARM.
At the core, everything begins with the relationship we have within ourselves.
Knowledge of the self is the root of all knowledge.
All of history looks back at that moment–to the tragedy and triumph of that cross. First the crucifixion, then the resurrection of the Son of God.
From Romans 5:8: “God proves His love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.”
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