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.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
Sour godliness is the devil’s religion.
From Proverbs 15:15: “All the days of the poor are hard, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.”
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life, meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness.
From Ezekiel 36:26-27: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.”
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
It’s a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
Christ, however, entered heaven itself and presented His life to the Father as the perfect atoning sacrifice. This means that the work of forgiveness is done. If you are in Christ, then His sacrifice has already paid for your sin.
From Hebrews 7:21-22: “But this one became a priest with an oath, because of the one who said to Him, ‘The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, You are a priest forever’–accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.”
God has to hide from us what He does until by personal character we get to the place where He can reveal it.
From Revelation 4:1: “After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.'”
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared to death.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Source: Guideposts.org
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I think money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
From John 15:7-11: “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.”
If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well. That’s when God puts iron in your bones.
From Luke 16:10: “Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.”
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