He said to them: Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions. - Luke 12:15
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Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. - Ecclesiastes 11:2
"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else, but what you are will be yours forever."
"Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands." - Vincent Gerard Nichols
"There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Samuel Langhorne Clemens
"The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't." - Todd Alan Blackledge
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." - Peter Ferdinand Drucker
"Here's the paradox. We can fully embrace God's love only when we recognize how completely unworthy of it we are." - Ann Tatlock
"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up." - Constantine Karnazes
"Let us keep a place for Christ in our lives, let us care for one another & let us be loving custodians of creation" - Jorge Mario Bergoglio
"The fact that so many like to see your pain but not your praise is sad. I hope we all succeed." - Tony Allen Gaskins, Jr.
"Shame destroys your ability to distinguish between a value statement and an observation." - William Paul Young
"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven." - William Goldsmith Brown
"I want my marriage to be like the Earth, full of life and revolving around the Son." - Jennifer Smith
Money will bring you the woman you think you want. Struggle brings you the woman you need.
Grace frees you from the burden of talking and acting like you're perfect, when in your heart you know you're not.
We're the salt according to Jesus, so we need to make others thirsty as to how we live.
It was on a Sunday like this that fear disappeared and death lost its power. Jesus saves! He has defeated death, now I know I can do so too.
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." - Aristotle
"Your story is the key that can unlock someone else's prison. Share your testimony." - John Charles Hagee
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do." - Brené Brown
"Some people don't like you just because your strength reminds them of their weakness. Don't let the hate slow you down." - Thema Davis
"Authentic pursuit of Jesus has been replaced by a list of what not to do. Nowhere is there room for life." - Cliff Graham
"Changing geography doesn't change you. The personal struggles you run from today, will meet you somewhere else tomorrow." - Dan Rockwell
"Every time I ask for fruitfulness, You call me God to rootedness. I dream of travelling further, You tell me to dig deeper." - Gerard Kelly
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale
"The word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without 1st being in the mind." - R.C. Sproul
"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together." - Vesta Kelly
"If you keep doing the right things day in and day out, your one day is going to come where God will show up and show off." - Mark Batterson
"The greater the crushing, the more oil is produced. The greater the struggle, the more anointing and the greater the pain, the more glory."
"When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, while you live, and the manner in which you live."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery Channing
If you linger through the bad times, that is where you usually find the heartbeat of God.
Calm me, O Lord, as you stilled the storm. Still me, O Lord, keep me from harm. Let all the tumult within me cease. Enfold me in your peace.
"Swim through your temptations and troubles. Run to the promises; they are our Lord's branches hanging over the water… take a grip of them."
"Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable." - Ronald David Laing
"Most men live lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them." - Henry David Thoreau
Don't let people's compliments get to your head and don't let their criticism get your heart.
Grace is currently at work reclaiming your heart, establishing a deep loyalty to God that will reshape all you desire, say, and do.
We want to hold on to the seductive delusion that our biggest problems in life exist outside us and not inside us. For this, there's grace.
"If your sin doesn't seem that bad, grace will never seem that good." - Rodney Hobbs
"I trust you" is better than "I love you" because you may not always trust the person you luv, but you can always love the person you trust.
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill
"The main problem our heart has is not so much desires for bad things, but our over-desires for good things." - Timothy Keller
"It is the hardest but most worthy fight to kill selfishness. But a deceivingly cruel and unsatisfying journey to feed it." - Andrew Mineo
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come." - Anne Lamott
"Be the kind of person who never gives up hope, regardless of how hopeless things seem, because your hope is in the Lord." - Lori Jones
"Lord I give it all back to You. Give me only Your love and Your grace, and I am rich enough and ask for nothing more." - Ignatius of Loyola
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