Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing it.
One chance is all you need.
Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an American track and field athlete. During the 1936 summer Olympics, he became the first athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad.
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish-born essayist, historian, and philosopher. He was a leading writer of the Victorian era.
If you seek answers you won’t find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
From Lamentations 3:25: “The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul that seeks Him.“
Mark Batterson (born 1969) is an American pastor and Christian author.
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.
Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born writer and philosopher.
We don’t have to be beautiful or brilliant or have all the answers to be blessed of God. All He asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith.
From Proverbs 10:8-9: “The wise of heart will heed commandments, but one with foolish lips will come to ruin. Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever follows perverse ways will be found out.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was an American photographer. She mastered bringing into focus the simplest of subjects.
Whatever ailment we face, the Word of God is the medicine and the peace of God the cure.
From Romans 8:6: “To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.“
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.
If your heart is open, it can never stay unbroken.
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life.
Jane Seymour (born 1951) is a British actress.
God did not make us perfect Christians in one stroke. He calls us as we are, and only His grace makes us what we are not.
From 1 Corinthians 15:9-10: “For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.
German-born Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident. Many of his writings express the role of Christianity in mankind’s daily lives. He paid the ultimate price for his activism against the Nazi regime during World War II.
Whatever I treasure the most will control my heart. Whatever controls my heart will control my behavior. May God be my treasure. He is big enough.
From Isaiah 40:12, 18: “Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of His hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? To whom, then, will you liken God, or what likeness compare with Him?”
Jonathan Byrd (born 1978) is an American professional golfer. He is known for integrating his Christian faith into his daily life as well as his golf career.
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