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Saturday, March 09, 2024

Flow Quotes

Quotes About Flow 

  • Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. --Bruce Barton
  • Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Zhuangzi, Chinese Philosopher
  • Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. --Washington Irving
  • The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. --Jim Hightower
  • The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. --Ralph Waldo Emerson



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We all have those moments when “surprise” slaps us in the face halting our flow. But it’s not what happens to us, it’s what happens in us that ultimately determines our success. When your forward momentum is strained, look inward—get your attitude right and everything else will “flow” just the way it should. 

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Monday, January 22, 2024

Faith Quotes

Quotes About Faith 

  • A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis
  • Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it. -- Louis Pasteur
  • Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. Charles Spurgeon
  • Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. –Thomas Aquinas
  • Faith is believing in advance what can only be understood in reverse. Chuck Swindoll
  • Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. --FRED GAILEY
  • Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) American Architect, Author
  • Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.  Søren Kierkegaard
  • Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us. Oswald Chambers 
  • Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible. Corrie ten Boom 
  • Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel. -- Georgette Mosbacher
  • Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite. -- Napoleon Hill
  • He who is threatened by another's faith, is not secure in his own.  Sheila Matechuk
  • Heaven never helps the man who will not act. -- Sophocles
  • I do not believe in a fate that falls on men and women however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. -- G.K. Chesterton
  • If I didn't have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I'm an optimist. I've read the last page in the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. Billy Graham
  • It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of a man's hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith. -- Donald Douglas
  • It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Thomas Robert Gaines
  • It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions; but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them. -- Nido Qubein
  • Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. --Julius Caesar
  • Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it. C. S. Lewis
  • One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances Tim Hansel
  • Risk is stepping outside your comfort zone to a place where you cannot predict with any degree of certainty the outcome of your actions. Risk is taking on something that holds an enormous chance of failure. Most importantly, risk is the only key to outrageous success. --Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric
  • Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray. Charles R. Swindoll
  • The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. George Müller 
  • The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome. -- John Haggai
  • The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • The voice you believe will determine the future you experience. --Steven Furtick
  • The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men. Martin Luther
  • The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, But wiser people so full of doubts.  --Bertrand Russel
  • There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who grow hopeless about them.
  • There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him. F. B. Meyer
  • Trials are not enemies of faith but are opportunities to prove God's faithfulness. 
  • True faith expects nothing of itself; everything from God; therein alone lies its strength. 
  • Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's Word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences. The object of our faith is God--not our feelings, not faith itself, but almighty God.  Warren W. Wiersbe
  • 'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone. John Selden
  • Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. -- St. Augustine
  • We are twice armed if we fight with faith. --Plato
  • When a person's faith seems to collapse without warning, one can be sure it has been the result of inner conflicts--the termites of disobedience.  Quinton J. Everest
  • When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. -- Barbara J. Winter
  • When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. Edward Teller
  • When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to step off into the darkness Faith is knowing one of two things will happen-- There will be something solid to stand on, or You will be taught to fly. --unknown
  • Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. -- Samuel Butler
  • You don't have to see the whole staircase; just that the first step. -- Martin Luther King, JR
  • You have to wonder about humans, they think GOD is dead and Elvis is alive! 
  • You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. -- James Stockdale
  • Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. --DWIGHT L. MOODY

Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe












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Do you have faith in the future? Take a look at your journey, are you currently stuck in your "comfort zone" or are you living in the "faith zone?" Do yourself a favor, join the faith zone! As John says, things can happen that would have never happened if you didn't change the zone you were living in. 


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Be God-Centered = You can parent with purpose by teaching your children faith. Show your children how to have a good relationship with God and to know and communicate with Him. As parents we have to be an example of this. Share with your children what God is doing in your life and how he leads you. Be God centered so that your children can see that every good and perfect gift comes from God.
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Galatians 3:9 So all who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.
Hebrews 11:3 (MSG) By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.
Matthew 17:20 (MSG) “Because you’re not yet taking God seriously,” said Jesus. “The simple truth is that if you had a mere kernel of faith, a poppy seed, say, you would tell this mountain, ‘Move!’ and it would move. There is nothing you wouldn’t be able to tackle.”
James 2:18 (MSG) I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying, “Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, I’ll handle the works department.” Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.
Luke 17:6 (MSG) But the Master said, “You don’t need more faith. There is no ‘more’ or ‘less’ in faith. If you have a bare kernel of faith, say the size of a poppy seed, you could say to this sycamore tree, ‘Go jump in the lake,’ and it would do it.
2 Corinthians 1:24 (MSG) We’re not in charge of how you live out the faith, looking over your shoulders, suspiciously critical. We’re partners, working alongside you, joyfully expectant. I know that you stand by your own faith, not by ours.
Luke 17:5 (MSG) The apostles came up and said to the Master, “Give us more faith.”
Galatians 3:12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”
Hebrews 11:1-2 NLT Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11 Faith in Action Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. ...
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Saturday, August 05, 2023

Freedom Quotes

Quotes About Freedom / Liberty

  • All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician
  • Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States
  • Wealth still failed to impress him; the purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which was useful and interesting. -- H. W. Brands, in his biography of Benjamin Franklin.
  • Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. ... But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self  I have developed during all those years. ~ Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years)
  • We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him. — Paul E. Scherer
  • May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall
  • The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. --Edmund Burke
  • Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. --Kahlil Gibran
  • They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin
  • God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?" --Thomas Jefferson, 1774
  • But you must remember, my fellow citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. -- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) 7th US President -Source: in his Farewell Address, (1837-March-04)
  • God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?" --Thomas Jefferson, 1774
  • There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. --WALTER CRONKITE
  • The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. --THOMAS JEFFERSON


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The Freedom Myth of Leadership = As leaders, we often think that when we get to the top we’ll no longer be limited and have more freedom, but that isn't the case. When you do actually get to the top, your responsibility increases, and your freedoms decrease. Once you get to that desired position you learn that you are no longer responsible for just yourself, but are also responsible for others and their actions. When you get to the top the freedom is not there, but your fulfillment is. 





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Freedom Gives Us Options = When we have freedom and options in our lives, it allows us to be the best we can be … to develop, grow, learn, and be better. People who reach their potential are a product of the freedom and options they have in their life. Freedom reminds us of the price that has been paid in our country, but also of the privileges and options we have.


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Galatians 5:1 ESV For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Galatians 5:13 ESV For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 Peter 2:16 ESV Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
John 8:32 ESV And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:36 ESV So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Isaiah 61:1 ESV The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Romans 6:22 ESV But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
James 1:25 ESV But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Forgive Quotes

Quotes About Forgiveness

  • 1 TREE + 3 NAILS = 4 GIVEN 
  • Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future. Forgive and forget. --
  • Forgive before you forget. --
  • Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.  
  • Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. --
  • Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. --Paul Boese
  • Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free. Stormie Omartian 
  • Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers
  • Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Forgiveness is the fragrance that a flower leaves upon the heel that crushes it. 
  • Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it. --Mark Twain
  • Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner. Max Lucado
  • Forgiveness of sins is the very heart of Christianity, and yet it is a very dangerous thing to preach. --Martin Luther
  • He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven. George Herbert
  • He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass! Scott Nicholson
  • He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. Johann K. Lavater
  • Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy. --Charles Fillmore
  • How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin? John Henry Newman 
  • I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher
  • If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty. --German proverb
  • If I ever seem to take you for granted, forgive me. --Helen Fitzwalter-Read
  • If we confess our sins, he is faithful & just & will forgive us ur sins & purify us from all unrighteousness. --1John 1:9
  • If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. --Mother Teresa
  • If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. --Glenn Clark
  • If your life is not all you want it to be, it may be that you have some forgiving to do.
  • It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. --Karl Barth
  • It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West
  • Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. --Sri Chinmoy
  • Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain, cherish the moment, live, laugh, love, forgive & forget, life's 2 short 2 be, living w/ regrets. --
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong & noble as when it forgoes revenge & dares to forgive injury. --Edwin H Chapin
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.  --E. H. Chapin
  • Not forgiving someone is like you drinking the poison and expecting the other person to die. 
  • Oh forgive us Lord, for so often we seek the things in your hand rather than the things of your heart. 
  • One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed. --Bernard M. Baruch
  • People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
  • Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. ~ Dan Zadra --
  • The more a man knows, the more he forgives. --Confucius
  • The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson 
  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian nationalist leader 
  • There is a hard law… When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. --Lewis B. Smedes
  • To hold a grudge is hateful, but to be willing to forgive is a beautiful thing.  --Joyce Meyer
  • True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. David Ridge
  • We are certain there is forgiveness, because there is a gospel, and the very essence of the gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin. --Charles H. Spurgeon
  • When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power. --
  • Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. –ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI
  • Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. --LEWIS B. SMEDES
  • An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. --Mahatma Gandhi





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Apologize Fast, Forgive Faster = Forgiveness is the strongest life-changing force. We are all going to make mistakes, but your response to these mistakes is what is important. High road leaders respond by taking responsibility and correcting their mistakes. The most free people in the world are those who walk in forgiveness; those who own their failures, apologize, and ask for forgiveness. Forgive without conditions.



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It’s For You! = Don Yaeger shares a story of forgiveness that demonstrates the power of forgiveness. When you forgive, others no longer hold power over you.  Who do you need to forgive today?


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Matthew 18:21-22 At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, “Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?” Jesus replied, “Seven! Hardly. Try seventy times seven.
Luke 5:21, 24 NLT - 21 But the Pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves, "Who does he think he is? That's blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!" ... 24 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins." Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!"
Luke 6:37 NLT - 37 "Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.
Luke 11:4 NLT - 4 and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And don't let us yield to temptation."
Luke 17:3-4 NLT - 3 So watch yourselves! "If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. 4 Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive."
Luke 23:34 NLT - 34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.
Colossians 1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 6:12 - and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6:14-15 - For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Acts 2:38 “Repent,” Peter said to them, “and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Centered Quotes

Quotes About Centered

  • Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered. --Deepak Chopra
  • Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered. --Allyson Felix
  • I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me. --Tim Tebow



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Emotionally Solid And Mature = If someone says you are centered, it means you are grounded and have your act together. A centered person is emotionally solid and mature. They have the ability to see things from the perspective of others, and they value and appreciate differences. 



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John C. Maxwell teaches you three qualities of a grounded leader. After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow discuss practical ways you can apply this lesson to your life and leadership. 
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- Humble leaders revel in the accomplishments and potential of others
- Calling is when your purpose is greater than you


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1 Peter 1:21 and through Him you believe [confidently] in God [the heavenly Father], who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are [centered and rest] in God.
1 Corinthians 7:34 and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or the virgin is concerned about the matters of the Lord, how to be holy and set apart both in body and in spirit; but a married woman is concerned about worldly things, how she may please her husband.
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Sunday, December 18, 2022

Mercy Quotes

Quotes About Mercy
  • All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. --Winston Churchill
  • Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. --C. S. Lewis
  • Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. --Joseph Campbell
  • Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. --Alexander Pope
  • Mercy surpasses justice. --Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan. --Saint John Chrysostom
  • Our mind cannot find a comparison too large for expressing the superabundant mercy of the Lord toward his people. --David Dickson
  • Happy are those whose self-centered lives have been crushed and reshaped by the Master's hand to be full of mercy. --John Hagee












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Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
Luke 6:36 ESV Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
James 2:13 ESV For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Matthew 5:7 ESV “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Matthew 9:13 Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Proverbs 12:10 Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Psalms 123:3 (NIV) Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.
Romans 9:18 (NIV) Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
James 2:13 (NIV) because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Hebrews 4:16 (NIV) Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Romans 9:15 (NIV) For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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Sunday, December 11, 2022

Peace Quotes

Quotes About Peace
  • The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. --ANNE FRANK
  • A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it. Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
  • All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.  Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
  • Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
  • Finding God, you have no need to seek peace, for he himself is your peace. Frances J. Roberts
  • First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
  • Five great enemies to peace: greed, ambition, envy, anger, and pride.
  • For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace. Donald Hankey (1874-1917)
  • God is a tranquil being and abides in a tranquil eternity. So must your spirit become a tranquil and clear little pool, wherein the serene light of God can be mirrored. Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769)
  • God takes life's pieces and gives us unbroken peace. W. D. Gough
  • Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
  • However painful or difficult, or, on the other hand, however inconspicuous or humdrum life may be, the Christian finds his peace in accepting and playing his part in the master plan. J. B. Phillips (1906-1982)
  • If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. Chinese Proverb
  • If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
  • In his will is our peace. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
  • In life troubles will come which seem as if they never will pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is peace. George Macdonald (1824-1905)
  • It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Sir Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
  • It is the spiritually humble who know what peace is. Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
  • My son, now will I teach thee the way of peace and inward liberty. Be desirous to do the will of another rather than thine own. Choose always to have less rather than more. Seek always the lowest place and to be inferior to everyone. Wish always, and pray, that the will of God may be wholly fulfilled in thee. Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
  • No sleep can be tranquil unless the mind is at rest. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 b.c.-a.d. 65)
  • Nobody studies peace. There are no courses in peace, no examinations, no discoveries, and alas, no advances. We are no farther on the road to peace than were the ancient Greek city-states, and perhaps we're farther away. Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
  • Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  • Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain if our will remain firm and sub- missive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering. François Fénelon (1651-1715)
  • Peace doesn't come from what we hold, but by whom holds us. Hopefully Jesus.
  • Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
  • Peace is not arbitrary. It must be based upon definite facts. God has all the facts on his side; the world does not. Therefore God, and not the world, can give peace. Billy Graham (1918- )
  • Peace is not made at the council tables, or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
  • Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.
  • Peace is one of those things, like happiness, which we are sure to miss if we aim at them directly. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
  • Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.
  • Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.  Maria Schell
  • Peace rules the day when Christ rules the mind.
  • Peace within makes beauty without. English Proverb
  • Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.  Winfield Scon (1786-1866)
  • Peace: the wisp of straw that binds the sheaf of blessings. Jewish Proverb
  • Petrarch (1304-1374)
  • Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894)
  • Selfishness is a gangrene, eating at the very vitals. Sin is a cancer, poisoning the blood. Peace is the rhythm of our wills with Jesus' love-will. Samuel Dickey Gordon (1859-1936)
  • Sowing seeds of peace is like sowing beans. You don't know why it works; you just know it does. Seeds are planted, and top soils of hurt are shoved away. Max L. Lucado (1955- )
  • The soul of peace is love, which... comes from the love of God and expresses itself in love for men. Pope Paul vi (1897-1978)
  • To thee, O God, we turn for peace... but grant us too the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us of that peace, neither ourselves, nor our foolish earthly desires, nor my wild longings, nor the anxious cravings of my heart. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
  • True peace is found by man in the depths of his own heart, the dwelling-place of God. Johann Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
  • Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. --Charles H. Brent
  • If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. --MARVIN GAYE
  • Where there is peace, God is.
  • Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. --John F. Kennedy
  • Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. --Albert Einstein
  • I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. --THOMAS PAINE





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Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Philippians 4:6 (NLT) Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
Philippians 4:7 (NLT) Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 5:7 (NLT) Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
John 16:33 (NLT) I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”
2 Thessalonians 3:16 (NLT) Now may the Lord of peace himself give you his peace at all times and in every situation. The Lord be with you all.
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