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Friday, April 19, 2024

Conversion Quotes

Quotes About Conversion 

  • A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink. --JOHN HEYWOOD
  • Changing your world begins in your heart.  Joyce C. Lock
  • Conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel. Live like a citizen of heaven, like you are truly His. Debbie Alsdorf 
  • Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. --Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist (1918-2007)
  • Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do. --Billy Sunday, American Clergyman (1862-1935)
  • Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church. --Richard G. Scott, American Clergyman (1928-  )
  • Entrance into heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion. Benjamin Whichcote
  • For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history Joseph Alleine
  • Jesus said that He came into our world for the specific purpose of giving us life---more abundant life. He is not the God of the tomb, but of resurrection morning. Give your life and your problems over to Him. I can guarantee that He has an answer tailor-made for your needs by One who loves you personally and wants to see you laugh again.  Catherine Marshall
  • Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.  Frederick W. Faber 
  • The moment you were born again you were born into the greatest love relationship ever known- the love between Father and Son.  Tammie Head
  • Though no one can go back and make a new beginning - anyone can start from now and make a brand new end. Carl Brand 
  • We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. --JOSEPH CAMPBELL
  • We're in spiritual combat - cosmic combat for the heart and soul of humankind.  Chuck Colson






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1 Corinthians 16:15 Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints—
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Acts 15:3 - So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 2:38 ESV And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:19 ESV Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
Mark 16:16 ESV Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Resilient Quotes

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  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. --Helen Keller
  • Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
  • Nothing man-made is more resilient than the human spirit.
  • Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. --Brad Henry, American Politician (1963-  )
  • The Biblical worldview sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.








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Resilience and Growth= When you go through something, you grow through it. As you think about your goals and what you want to achieve, you make a plan knowing there will be setbacks and things won't go as planned—and that is where you need resilience. Resilience is a skill—a skill that can be learned. 



Living on the Edge - We aren't always going to get it right, remember that. If it doesn't work out the first time, or even the second time - get back up. Embrace being human, embrace being resilient. 




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2 Corinthians 4:8-9 ESV We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Ephesians 6:10 ESV Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Joshua 1:9 ESV Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Philippians 4:13 ESV I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Passion Quotes

Quotes About Passion 

  • If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. --Benjamin Franklin
  • Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. --Oprah Winfrey
  • Passion is momentary; love is enduring. --John Wooden
  • Passion is the genesis of genius. --GALILEO GALILEI
  • There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. --Nelson Mandela 


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Make Today Better - We should have passion and excitement for what we do. We all need a thought or prompting to make us make today better. Today is the day that you can make a difference. So get passion, go out, and make a difference for one another. 



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Success Takes Energy = The next question from John Maxwell’s Book, Put Your Dream To The Test, is about passion and energy … Passion energizes us to accomplish our dreams and gives us desire. You can’t coast to success. It takes passion and desire to undertake any great accomplishment. Does your passion match your dream?








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1 Peter 1:14 - As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
1 Peter 2:11 - Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
1 Peter 4:2-3 - so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
1 Peter 5:8 Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.
1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
2 Peter 2:10 - and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
2 Peter 2:18 - For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
2 Timothy 2:22 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,
Colossians 3:5 So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.
James 4:1 - What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
James 4:3 - You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
John 1:13 They are reborn - not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
John 2:17 Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.”
Jude 18 - They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
Luke 10:27 (MSG) He said, “That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself.”
Matthew 6:21 ESV For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Proverbs 22:12 (MSG) God guards knowledge with a passion, but he’ll have nothing to do with deception.
Psalm 84:2 ESV My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
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Monday, April 15, 2024

Tax Quotes

Quotes About Tax 

  • "The important point to remember is that for the government to give, it must first take away."  (John S. Coleman)
  • "America: a great land of taxation founded to avoid taxation."  (Dr. Laurence J. Peter, paraphrased) 
  • "Today it takes more brains to fill out the income tax form than it does to make the income." (Alfred E. Neumann, MAD Magazine)


 


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Luke 20:22 Now tell us - is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
Romans 13:7 Give to everyone what you owe them: Pay your taxes and government fees to those who collect them, and give respect and honor to those who are in authority.
Luke 18:10 (NLT) “Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector.
Matthew 5:46 - For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Matthew 9:9 - As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
Matthew 9:10 - And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 9:11 - And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Matthew 10:3 - Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
Matthew 11:19 - The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
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Monday, April 08, 2024

Eclipse Quotes

Quotes About Eclipse 


  • In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world. --Bonnie Tyler, Welsh Musician (1953-  )
  • When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear. --Charles R. Swindoll



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Job 3:5 May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it. May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.
Joel 2:31 ESV The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
Amos 8:9 ESV “And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
Genesis 1:14 ESV And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.
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Monday, April 01, 2024

Fool Quotes

Quotes About Fool 

  • A fool judges people by the presents they give him.  Chinese Proverb 
  • A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. - Benjamin Franklin
  • A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. --Bruce Lee
  • A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. --Lord Acton
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. --Benjamin Franklin
  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. --Henry David Thoreau
  • Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein (1879-1955); physicist and mathematician.
  • Enjoy the little you have while the fool is hunting more. Old Spanish proverb
  • Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. Harry Anderson
  • I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.  
  • Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides, 484 - 406 BC
  • The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman
  • The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. --William Blake
  • The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton
  • The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. --HERMANN HESSE
  • The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Lillian Hellman 
  • We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! –Jeremy Taylor
  • Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. –Charles Spurgeon
  • You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. - Talmud
  • You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "My, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"  Dave Barry 




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Proverbs 18:2 ESV A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 29:9 (NIV) If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
Proverbs 17:21 (NIV) To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.
Job 5:2 (NIV) Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Ecclesiastes 2:16 (NIV) For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!
2 Corinthians 11:16 (NIV) I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.
Proverbs 10:18 (NIV) Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:10 (NIV) Whoever winks maliciously causes grief, and a chattering fool comes to ruin.
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,
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Sunday, March 31, 2024

Easter Quotes

Quotes About Easter 

  • God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'  --Billy Graham

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Acts 12:4  And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
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Saturday, March 30, 2024

Resurrection Quotes

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  • Because of the empty tomb, we have peace. Because of His resurrection, we can have peace during even the most troubling of times because we know He is in control of all that happens in the world. –Paul Chappell
  • Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime. –Martin Luther
  • Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. –Watchman Nee
  • Remember that grace and truth cannot finally be crucified. Remember that all the high things that make humanity beautiful cannot be forever laid in the dust, spattered with blood. And most of all, remember that He who rose from the dead, rose to pour out His Holy Spirit into human lives, and, by that Spirit, to make available to any individual all the fullness of Himself, twenty-four hours a day. –Ray C. Stedman
  • Share the gratitude and good news of the resurrection of Jesus. Easter Sunday reminds us all of our heavenly calling and of the open door for a relationship with God through Jesus, His Son.
  • We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings –A. W. Tozer
  • What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope. --Karl Barth




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John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
1 Corinthians 15 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ...
Matthew 28:6 (NET) He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.
John 11:24  Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
Colossians 3:1 Therefore if you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead], keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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