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See also Character of Children
See also Conviction of Character
See also Discipline from God
See also Humility
See also Pride
See also Work
D.L.Moody
"It does not pay to get sour as you get old. I pity a man who lives in the past. He lives on stale manna. He gets stunted."
C.E. Cowman
"The Devil is not put to flight be a courteous request. He meets us at every inch, and our progress has to be registered in heart's blood and tears."
"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him ?" Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Joseph A. Ryan
"One thing integrity means is that we speak the truth no matter what people want to hear."
Bill Hull
"The bible teaches that we are transformed supernaturally not automatically."
Anon
"The man who hasn't time to do things that are worthwhile is probabley doing things that are not."
Peter Jackson
"God is never disillusioned with me because he never had any illusions in the first place."
Philip Brooks
"Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. There the affections are trained. There the gentle life reaches us, the true heaven life. In one word, the family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity."
When the Duke of Wellington met his Waterloo it was a victory that determined the future course of history. The man whose battle strategy put an end to the grandiose schemes of the little Corsican is quoted as saying more than once that British soldiers were no braver than Frenchmen, but they could be brave for five minutes longer.
Pastor Garry Olsen (USA)
"If you can be battered without being bitter you will be better."
T Shirt
Front said "Please be patient with me"
Back said "God hasn't finished with me yet"
Ref - W Wersbie, God Isn't in a hurry p. 9
"Why has God made me this way?" a suffering saint once bitterly asked her minister. Gently he replied "God has not made you, he is making you"
Woodrow Kroll
"The man who carved the faces of the presidents of America into the rock face, was asked how he did it. He said that all he did was blow the rock up with dynamite and the faces appeared, as they were there all the time."
Author Unknown
GRANDMA AND THE CAKE
A little boy was telling Grandma how "everything" was going wrong - school, family problems, severe health problems, etc. Meanwhile, Grandma was baking a cake. She asked her grandson if he would like a snack, which of course he did.
"Here, have some cooking oil."
"Yuck" said the boy.
"How about a couple raw eggs? "
"Gross, Grandma!"
"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"
"Grandma, those are all yucky!"
To which the Grandma replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake! God works the same way. Many times we wonder why he would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!"
Catherine Booth
"It is the state of the soul which fixes the value of the employment."
"The biggest Room in the world for every Christian in the Room for improvement."
Clean Illustration
I asked for Strength ....... and God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for Wisdom ......... and God gave me Problems to solve.
I asked for Prosperity ..... and God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.
I asked for Courage ........ and God gave me Danger to overcome.
I asked for Love ........... and God gave me Troubled people to help.
I asked for Favours ......... and God gave me Opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted ......... and everything I needed!
Clean Illustration
On the way home from church, a little girl turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, the Preacher's sermon this morning confused me."
The mother said, "Oh! Why is that?"
The girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than we are. Is that true?"
"Yes, that's true," the mother replied.
"He also said that God lives within us. Is that true, too?"
Again the mother replied, "Yes."
"Well," said the girl. "If God is bigger than us and He lives in us, wouldn't He show through?"
Rules for life by Bill Gates
To anyone with kids, of any age, here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they DID NOT learn in school. He talked about how feel-good, politically correct teaching has created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
RULE 1 Life is not fair-get used to it.
RULE 2 The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3 You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
RULE 4 If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
RULE 5 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping-they called it opportunity.
RULE 6 If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
RULE 7 Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
RULE 8 Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
RULE 9 Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
RULE 10 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11 Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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