
The past is the prism through which we see a great, great deal of ourselves.
Life’s passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

The past is the prism through which we see a great, great deal of ourselves.
Life’s passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

People, places, and things were never meant to give us life. God alone is the author of a fulfilling life.
From Psalm 23:5-6: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.“

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.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Don’t need a tourist destination to “celebrate” life. Take time to explore the treasures in your own backyard.
You attract what you give out.

On each occasion when we observe the Lord’s Table . . . we are not simply to feel or to read or to hear or to see, but to take into our very bodies the taste of our Savior’s sacrifice.
From Psalm 34:8: “O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in Him.”

The drive for happiness is vital; it’s what keeps us in motion.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

The bedrock of our Christian faith is the unmerited, fathomless marvel of the love of God exhibited on the Cross of Calvary, a love we never can and never shall merit.
From Romans 8:37-39: “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

The sufferings that the Lord allows in our life are given to us for His good purpose. Whenever God allows suffering to remain, He gives grace to endure it.
From 2 Corinthians 12:7-9: “Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.'”

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
From Romans 6:22-23: “But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”