The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and advocate of scientific inquiry.
Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.
From Luke 22:19-20: “Then He took a loaf of bread, and when He had given thanks He broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.’ And He did the same with the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.'”
Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) was a Scottish pastor and Christian theologian.
Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings.
From Matthew 19:24-26: “‘Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, ‘Then who can be saved?’ But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible.'”
Nicky Gumbel (born 1955) is an English-born Anglican pastor and Christian author.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was an American combat pilot, race car driver, and business executive. Born in Columbus Ohio, he became America’s top flying ace during World War I.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
From 1 Peter 5:5-6: “And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time.”
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.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English poet. Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, they both helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature.
Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
From Proverbs 17:22: “A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American pastor and abolitionist.
When you get right down to the root meaning of the word “succeed,” you find that it simply means to follow through.
Almost all men are intelligent. It is method that they lack.
F. W. Nichol was a Vice President and General Manager for IBM (International Business Machines).
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932 at the age of 44, he was laid off from his business executive position because of the Great Depression’s economic downturn. This opened a door for his next career move as he pursued writing detective fiction novels.
Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith.
From Philemon 1:6: “I pray that the partnership of your faith may become effective as you comprehend all the good that we share in Christ.”
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