A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of the heart.
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan (born 1950) is an American writer who contributes regularly to various news outlets. Her past experiences also include serving as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan in the mid-1980s.
The hand of God casts a shadow of the cross across your life. Sit down at the foot of the cross and deliberately submit your soul to His mighty hand.
From Romans 9:16: “So it depends not on human will or exertion but on God who shows mercy.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott (1938-1996) was an American psychiatrist and author.
Obedience . . . is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
From Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “Return to the Lord your God, and you and your children obey Him with all your heart and with all your soul, just as I am commanding you today, then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.”
John Charles (J. C.) Ryle (1816-1900) was an Anglican bishop in the United Kingdom.
I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light.
I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people’s expectations.
Annie Lennox (born 1954) is a Scottish singer and songwriter..
Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.
From Psalm 18:2: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
D. L. Moody (1837-1899), also known as Dwight Lyman Moody, was an American evangelist and Christian teacher. He is frequently credited with inspiring modern mass revivalism.
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an American poet.
You only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters.
Because being the right person isn’t about being perfect; it’s about being able to handle whatever life throws at you.
Michael Massimino (born 1962) is a former American astronaut, and is currently a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University. His experience with space travel includes two space shuttle flights in 2002 and 2009.
There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We will long and desire and crave and suffer, but not until we are at the extreme limit will we ask.
From Luke 11:10: “For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.
Gratitude is the least remembered of all virtues but is the acid test of character.
We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.
Elmer L. Towns (born 1932) is an American pastor and Christian writer. Along with Jerry Falwell, he co-founded Liberty University in 1971.
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