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I came from God, and I’m going back to God, and I won’t have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

George Macdonald

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent, and God will speak again.

Francois Fenelon

You can do everything else right as a parent, but if you don’t begin with loving God, you’re going to fail.

Alvin Vander Griend

“The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.” Meister Eckhart

It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.

Remember, you are the only one who can keep you from becoming the person God wants you to be.

Neil Anderson

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~St. Augustine

“If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer “Action!””

Thomas Brooks

It is the heart
always that sees before the head can see

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that a flower leaves upon the heel that crushes it.” Author Unknown

“It’s great to be young and dream the dream, but it’s better to be old and to see that the dream is true!” John Osteen

God doesn’t just give us grace, He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Rest is not a hallowed feeling that comes over
us in church; it is the repose of a heart set deep in God

God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

Mary Kay Ash

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

I may forget what someone may say or do, but I do not forget how they made me feel.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails

Associated Press

“Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding.”

Mickey Rivers, baseball player

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”

Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”

Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”

Samuel Goldwyn

“Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he’s pretty old. He’s thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.”

Ron Fairley, Giants broadcaster

“We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door – the bell doesn’t work.)”

Sign on door of repair shop

“You can’t just let nature run wild.”

Wally Hickel, former Alaska governor

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.

Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau…

I do not like this word “bomb.” It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

Jacques le Blanc

Radio has no future…

“That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.”

Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left winger, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker

“I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

“I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.”

“We’d like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles.”

Wesley Bolin, Governor

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction…

Pierre Pachet, 1872