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Saturday, December 09, 2023

Sin Quotes

Quotes About Sin 

  • Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.
  • There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought. --L. M. MONTGOMERY
  • Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His. --John G. Lake
  • The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. --Mary Astell, English Writer (1666-1731)
  • All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. --FRANK HERBERT
  • People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. --D. A. Carson
  • Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony --John Stott
  • The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. --Dwight L. Moody






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SIN, n.
1. The voluntary departure of a moral agent from a known rule of rectitude or duty, prescribed by God; any voluntary transgression of the divine law, or violation of a divine command; a wicked act; iniquity. Sin is either a positive act in which a known divine law is violated, or it is the voluntary neglect to obey a positive divine command, or a rule of duty clearly implied in such command. Sin comprehends not action only, but neglect of known duty, all evil thoughts purposes, words and desires, whatever is contrary to God's commands or law. 1 John 3. Mat 15. James 4. Sinner neither enjoy the pleasures of nor the peace of piety. Among divines, sin is original or actual. Actual sin, above defined, is the act of a moral agent in violating a known rule of duty. Original sin, as generally understood, is native depravity of heart to the divine will, that corruption of nature of deterioration of the moral character of man, which is supposed to be the effect of Adam's apostasy; and which manifests itself in moral agents by positive act of disobedience to the divine will, or by the voluntary neglect to comply with the express commands of God, which require that we should love God with all the heart and soul and strength and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves. This native depravity or alienation of affections from God and his law, is supposed to be what the apostle calls the carnal mind or mindedness, which is enmity against God, and is therefore denominated sin or sinfulness. Unpardonable sin, or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, is supposed to be a malicious and obstinate rejection of Christ and the gospel plan of salvation, or a contemptuous resistance made to the influences and convictions of the Holy Spirit. Mat 12.
2. A sin-offering; an offering made to atone for sin. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. 2 Cor 5.
3. A man enormously wicked. [Not in use.]
4. Sin differs from crime, not in nature, but in application. That which is a crime against society, is sin against God.

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Proverbs 22:8 (MSG) Whoever sows sin reaps weeds, and bullying anger sputters into nothing.
Romans 7:13 (MSG) I can already hear your next question: “Does that mean I can’t even trust what is good [that is, the law]? Is good just as dangerous as evil?” No again! Sin simply did what sin is so famous for doing: using the good as a cover to tempt me to do what would finally destroy me. By hiding within God’s good commandment, sin did far more mischief than it could ever have accomplished on its own.
Romans 3:23 for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --
Proverbs 21:4 (MSG) Arrogance and pride—distinguishing marks in the wicked— are just plain sin.
Ezekiel 18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. The child will not be punished for the parent’s sins, and the parent will not be punished for the child’s sins. Righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior, and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness.
Ezekial 18:24 But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
Romans 5:12 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
Jude 16 - These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
1 John 5:17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
1 John 5:18 - We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
1 John 3:9 - No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
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Thursday, October 05, 2023

Compromise Quotes

Quotes About Compromise

  • Learn the wisdom of compromise for it is better to bent a little than to break.
  • Relationships aren't easy, they take hard work from both people, equal amount of giving and taking, respect and compromise.
  • Relationships are built one day at a time... They take time, patience, honesty, passion and ability to compromise then grow! So true love, is by sharing bad and good times together...
  • The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise. --G. Campbell Morgan
  • Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. --G.K. Chesterton
  • I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. --Abraham Lincoln
  • Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. --Thomas S. Monson
  • Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. --Andrew Cuomo
  • If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. --Margaret Thatcher
  • If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. --Robert Fritz
  • People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. --Dwight D. Eisenhower






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Psalm 119:3 They do not compromise with evil, and they walk only in his paths.
2 Samuel 14:9 (MSG) “I’ll take all responsibility for what happens,” the woman of Tekoa said. “I don’t want to compromise the king and his reputation.”
Proverbs 25:26 (MSG) A good person who gives in to a bad person is a muddied spring, a polluted well.
Job 27:6 I'll retain my righteousness and not compromise it; my conscience won't rebuke me at any time.
John 14:15 ESV “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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Sunday, June 25, 2023

Self Quotes

Quotes About Self

  • A year of self-surrender will bring larger blessings than fourscore year of selfishness. Anonymous
  • Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.  Leo Herlihy
  • Before you let yourself go, be sure you can get yourself back. Roger Allen
  • Decorate yourself from the inside out  Woody Paige
  • Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin
  • He is a self-made man and worships his creator. John Bright
  • He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. Samuel Johnson
  • I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, But it comes from within. It is there all the time.  Anna Freud
  • If I won't be myself, who will? Alfred Hitchcock
  • If you are overly concerned with how you're going to be perceived by everyone, then you've disconnected yourself from intention and allowed the opinions of others to guide you. Dr. Wayne Dyer
  • I've gone to find myself. If I get back before I've found me, please keep me here.  
  • Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
  • Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. Alexis Carrel
  • Never explain yourself to anyone. Because the person who likes you doesn't need it, and the person who dislikes you won't believe it. unknown
  • Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. Robert Southey (1774-1843), British poet.
  • None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.  Bertolt Brecht, 1933 
  • Risk anything! ...Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield
  • Since God offers to manage our affairs for us, let us once and for all hand them over to His infinite wisdom, in order to occupy ourselves only with Himself and what belongs to Him. J. P. de Caussade
  • Sorry for my self-confident self  Woody Paige
  • Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. Glenn Clark
  • The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at. Jesse Owens
  • The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. O.J. Simpson
  • The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self. Montaigne
  • The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. E. E. Cummings 
  • The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? Myrtie Barker
  • The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.  Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist 
  • There are more self-marred people in the world than there are self-made. Arnold H. Glasow
  • Your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Mard
  • Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? --MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
  • Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. --A. C. Benson
  • Self-trust is the first secret of success. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. --Henri Frederic Amiel
  • The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. --Bryant H. McGill
  • If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. --Marcus Garvey
  •  I am a spiritual being... After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. --Max Lucado
  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. --ALBERT EINSTEIN



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Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
Psalm 119:36 Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.
Proverbs 18:1 An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.
Galatians 5:23 (ESV) gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Peter 1:6 (ESV) and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV) for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Acts 20:35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
2 Timothy 1:7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
James 1:27 The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world.
Romans 12:3 ESV For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2023

Fortitude Quotes

Quotes About Fortitude / Gumption

  • Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. --John Locke
  • I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds. --Louis Nizer
  • Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. --Francis Bacon
  • Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it. --Jerry Reed
  • Patience and fortitude conquer all things. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success. --BEAR BRYANT







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Romans 5:4 (NLT) And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
Romans 5:3 And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;
2 Corinthians 1:6 But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring.
1 Timothy 6:11 But you, O man of God, must flee from these things; and strive for uprightness, godliness, good faith, love, fortitude, and a forgiving temper.
2 Corinthians 12:12 The signs that characterize the true Apostle have been done among you, accompanied by unwearied fortitude, and by tokens and marvels and displays of power.
Proverbs 31:17 She clothes herself with fortitude, and fortifies her arms with strength.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Tactical Quotes

Quotes About Being Tactical
  • I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend. Alexis Arguello 
  • The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. Erwin Rommel 
  • "Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful." Gen. Robert E. Wood
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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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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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Saturday, December 03, 2022

Promise Quotes

Quotes About Promises

  • ...Promises are more dangerous then secrets. Aimee Friedman
  • A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises" are just sitting on the premises. 
  • Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece. Sherry Rothfield
  • Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise. Harvey Mackay
  • Don't make promises when you are in joy. Don't reply when you are sad. Don't take decisions when you are angry. Think twice..., Act Wise. unknown
  • God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill all His promises . . . leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • God isn't going to let you see the distant scene. So you might as well quit looking for it. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. We do not need to know what will happen tomorrow. We only need to know He leads us and we will find grace to help us when we need it.  Max Lucado (Traveling Light)
  • God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them. Max Lucado
  • God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage 
  • God's promises are like the stars: the darker the night, the brighter they shine David Nicholas
  • I know God promises not to give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa 
  • If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises". Ronald Reagan
  • In some ways, it's those of us who are most familiar with the Spirit's promises who are in the greatest danger. Someone has said that familiarity may not breed contempt, but it takes the edge off of awe. Something like this is true about the rich texts and glory-filled promises that drop the jaws or widen the eyes of newcomers but provoke no more than a raised eyebrow in the old-timers who have ceased to dream.  Jim McGuiggan
  • Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble. G. K. Chesterton
  • Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. P Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. Jonathan Swift
  • Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give. Maria Edgeworth
  • Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them. Mike Ditka
  • Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon Virginia C. Andrews
  • Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept. Laura Schlessinger
  • Promises. I was drowning in promises. Richelle Mead
  • So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America. Thomas Wolfe
  • The most glorious promises of God are generally fulfilled in such a wondrous manner that He steps forth to save us at a time when there is the least appearance of it. C. H. von Bogatzy 






The Gap Between Expectation and Reality is Disappointment | MWM
Keep Your Promises = Promise is a word of anticipation, hope, and growth. Don’t over-promise and under-deliver, instead, under-promise and over-deliver. The gap between expectation and reality is a disappointment. When you promise something, don’t create that gap. Fulfill your promises. 









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Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Acts 5:3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and [secretly] keep back for yourself some of the proceeds [from the sale] of the land?
Acts 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
James 1:12 Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.
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2 Peter 1:4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
2 Corinthians 1:20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.
Galatians 3:18 (NIV) For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.
Psalms 106:12 (NIV) Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.
Joshua 21:45 (NIV) Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.


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Friday, May 13, 2022

Character Quotes

Quotes About Character
  • A gem cannot be polished without friction; the child of God cannot be perfected without adversity, nor a man be polished in character without trial. 
  • A man's character is like a fence. It cannot be strengthened by whitewash. 
  • All masterpieces of painting contain both light and shadow. By them the artist highlights certain features of the subject, and they provide contrast and harmony to reveal beauty or character. A happy life is not one filled only with sunshine, but one that uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.  Billy Graham (Unto the Hills)
  • As you do, so you become. Every action that you perform is recorded in you, the soul. These imprints ultimately mould your character and destiny. When you understand this principle, you will pay more attention to bringing your best to everything you do. unknown
  • Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller
  • Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. James Michener
  • Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get Caught. J.C. Watts
  • Character is property ... it is the noblest of possessions. 
  • Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks
  • Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. - Benjamin Disraeli
  • Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. --EPICTETUS
  • Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr
  • Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
  • No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • No matter how bad people may seem, they possess at least one virtue. Be like the hummingbird and pick out the sweetness of everyone's character. unknown
  • Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.  John Cunningham Geikie
  • People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. --ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
  • People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • Raising kids with strong character requires doing less FOR them and teaching them to do more for themselves. Rick Warren
  • Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. 
  • Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop
  • The collapse of character begins with compromise. 
  • The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. Henry Ward Beecher
  • The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. - Somerset Maugham
  • The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer
  • Time sets the stage; fate writes the script; but only We may choose our character. Liam Thomas Ryder
  • Trials, temptations, disappointments. All these are helps instead of hindrances, If one uses them rightly. They not Only test the fibre of a character, But strengthen it. Every conquered temptation Represents a new fund of moral Energy. Every trial endured and Weathered in the right spirit makes a soul Nobler and stronger than it was before. James Buckham
  • We tend to judge ourselves for our mistakes and the difficulties we have experienced, when it is the difficulties that build our Character. You are far stronger for what you have gone through.  Alan Cohen
  • When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. --THOMAS PAINE
  • When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost! German Proverb
  • When you build a house, every brick counts. When you build a character, every thought counts. You are what you think. Love, purity, peace, wisdom - the more you think of these qualities, the more you will become them. unknown
  • Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey
  • You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. James D. Miles
  • You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher
  • You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. --AUDREY HEPBURN
  • Your character is the sum total of your habits. It's what you do habitually. 
  • There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. --WINSTON CHURCHILL
  • Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny. --MARGARET THATCHER
  • Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn’t formed out of smart people, it’s formed out of people who suffered. --JENSEN HUANG
  • Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. --Aristotle
  • The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. --Heraclitus
  • Character, not circumstances, makes the man. --BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Does Your Reputation Outweigh Your Character? | MWM
Character Over Reputation = Character is about who you really are—not who you show people you are. Character is who you are when no one is watching. Embrace the value of character over reputation. Image is too important in today’s culture. Character determines how you interact with people and what you are capable of accomplishing. The goal is for character to exceed your reputation. If you are bigger on the inside than on the outside, you will be a successful leader. 




Essential to your Leadership= If you are a leader or looking to follow someone who is, the core of your leadership should be character. Remember, be better on the inside than you are on the outside - start within your core. Although some have good character, it doesn't necessarily make you a great leader. Start within yourself, first!



When you think about the person you look up to or want to follow in life, important characteristics come to mind like honesty, trustworthy, courage, integrity and so much more. When we put our trust in someone and feel secure with them, it is likely because we respect their character. If you want to be a good leader, it is important to have good character. Anyone can acquire good characteristics, you just need to be determined to do so.

What’s on the inside is what ultimately shows up on the outside. Character not only makes you a good person, but it can also make-or-break a leader’s reputation. Not everyone with the right “inside stuff” will become a reputable leader. But every reputable leader has to first have upstanding character.






The 4 Dimensions of Character
In this episode, we explore the four dimensions of character in leadership, the significance of being vulnerable and transparent in order to establish trust with team members, as well as the challenges of self-management and the need for leaders to prioritize effectively. You’ll learn the concept of teachability and the role it plays in demonstrating humility along with the value of courage in standing up for what is right and making tough decisions.


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Character
the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that makes them different from others:
Politeness is traditionally part of the British character.
It would be very out of character (= not typical) of her to lie.
One of the joys of being a parent is watching the child's character develop.
The idea was to modernize various aspects of the house without changing its essential character.
It's not in his character to be (= he is not usually) jealous.

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1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”





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