I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
From Psalm 121:1-2: “I lift up my eyes to the hills—from where will my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet. Many of her writings are considered classics in English literature.
All
Who thirst
Seek living waters
Flowing into believer’s heart
Come
Given
From Jesus
Precious living waters
Flowing from Spirit’s depths
Life
Accepting
Christ’s nourishment
Blessed living waters
Flowing outward from heavens
Grace
From Isaiah 12:3: “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.”
When the sovereign God brings us to nothing, it is to reroute our lives. Now’s the time to start anew.
From Psalm 37:23-24: “Our steps are made firm by the Lord when He delights in our way; though we stumble, we shall not fall headlong, for the Lord holds us by the hand.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. Her body of published work is found in autobiographies, essays, poems, and numerous credits in plays, movies, and television shows.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
From Ephesians 4:31: “Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.”
Joan Didion (1934-2021) was an American writer and journalist.
The life which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.
Often our bad moments are self-propelled. And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
Katharine Tynan (1859-1931) was an Irish writer, who became well-known for her novels and poetry.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American pastor and abolitionist.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
Williams James (1842-1910) was an American psychologist and philosopher. He has often been referred to as the “father of American psychology.”
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect–we all love it.
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
Tom Peters (born 1942) is an American writer. Much of his work deals with business management practices.
Fortune is the prize to be worn. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows of the roadside.
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. Henry, the pen name of William Henry Porter (1862-1910), was an American writer who mastered the art of crafting short stories.
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