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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Generosity Quotes

Quotes About Generosity
  • Generosity is a quality that many men admire. But if a prince develops a reputation for generosity, he will ruin his state. A reputation for generosity requires outward lavishness, which eventually depletes all of the prince’s resources. In the end, the prince will be forced to burden his people with excessive taxes in order to raise the money to maintain his reputation for generosity. Ultimately, the prince’s liberality will make the people despise and resent him. ~Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. --PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO
  • Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. --Khalil Gibran
  • Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet. --Wayne Dyer
  • Generosity is doing something for someone else and expecting nothing in return.


Putting People First | MWM
The Power Of Generosity = Be generous, especially in times of challenge. Generosity isn’t just about giving money—it’s about putting people first, even when it costs you. True generosity multiplies. What a leader gives away in trust, time, or care always returns in greater measure.




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A Generous Mindset Can Bring You Lots of Joy = Generous people are normally very, very fulfilled. If you have been blessed, the best way to take those blessings is to turn them around and pass them on to others. Selfish people are often unhappy, but unselfish, generous people are always fulfilled and happy. Generous people are serving and living for others. By having an abundance and generous mindset, others will be attracted to you because you put others first.





Comparison Kills Generosity | MWM
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Give Others What You Value = There is no higher level of living than giving without expecting anything in return. People who embody generosity experience incredible freedom and happiness. Comparison kills generosity. The measure of your generosity is based on what you have, not what you give. Don’t let possessions take charge of your mind. If you are enslaved to greed, you cannot lead. 



A Person Who Gives is a Person Who’s Fulfilled
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Be Happy, Be Generous! = The happiest people in the world are generous. People who give are fulfilled. We were created to help one another and to share. When we act out who we are supposed to be, it gives us a sense of fulfillment in following that purpose. Give more to the people you see today!


The Impact of Generosity | MWM
Be Generous, Give Back What You Earn = Be generous with your money. As you are building your life and businesses, always strive to have three sources of income. And then give back what you can financially to others. Being generous with your money allows you to serve others and help those you otherwise wouldn't have been able to help. You can't give what you don't have, and once you earn more, pass it on. 
The Impact Of Generosity = Because of generosity, you can have—or give—the ability and resources to others to do things they wouldn't otherwise be able to do.



Generosity Gives Back To All = By living a generous life, you set aside time and resources to give to others. This practice will not only benefit others, but also benefit you. Based on the practice of tithing, you give 10% of what you have back to God. You need to have an open hand in life in order to give more and accept more in life, giving what you have where it is needed most.

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Generosity is an attitude = Generosity doesn’t have anything to do with blessings or money, it is an attitude. There are people who have very little, but are always sharing what they have with others. There are others who have a lot, but hold on tightly to what is theirs. What kind of person are you? Are you a generous person, opening yourself to receive more?
Generosity Is A Mindset = Generosity isn't about money, it's an attitude. Generosity is the idea that if you keep what you have, you can't have more. But If you open yourself up to give more, you can also receive more.


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A person that owns their money, instead of their money owning them. No matter how much you have, pass along a little bit of wisdom or wealth to help others succeed.





Become a river... allow others to share the greatness with you. Be a giver, it will be your greatest joy, no matter how little or how much you have!



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Acts 2:46 NLT - 46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity--
2 Corinthians 8:2 NLT - 2 They are being tested by many troubles, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity.
2 Corinthians 9:10, 13 NLT - 10 For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. ... 13 As a result of your ministry, they will give glory to God. For your generosity to them and to all believers will prove that you are obedient to the Good News of Christ.
Ephesians 4:7 NLT - 7 However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ.
Philemon 1:6 NLT - 6 And I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith as you understand and experience all the good things we have in Christ.
Isaiah 32:8 (NLT) But generous people plan to do what is generous, and they stand firm in their generosity.
Romans 12:8 The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Matthew 20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption [that is, our deliverance and salvation] through His blood, [which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in] the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you are recognizing [more clearly] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [His astonishing kindness, His generosity, His gracious favor], that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich (abundantly blessed).
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
Romans 5:15 But God's free gift immeasurably outweighs the transgression. For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been bestowed on the mass of mankind.
2 Corinthians 9:13 They will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with others through the proof provided by this service.
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Friday, August 23, 2024

Envy Quotes

Quotes About Envy 

  • Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. --Oliver Stone
  • The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. --Jim Rohn
  • The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more.
  • The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. --William Penn
  • Envy is an insult to oneself. --Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. --Josh Billings
  • Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. --Marilyn Monroe



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Jealousy is almost always rooted in insecurity. Whether we’re comparing ourselves to strangers on social media or feeling inferior to a new colleague, jealousy is an emotion that can trap us in a self-perpetuating cycle of discontent.
Once we recognize where our jealousy comes from — feeling self-conscious about our looks or sensing distance from a romantic partner, for instance — we can begin to address the real issues and take constructive steps toward handling our envy.
This may look like building our self-confidence or initiating vulnerable conversations with loved ones who might not always realize how their actions affect us. If we don’t make an effort to change our perspective or our actions, jealousy can continue to fester inside us, leading to increased alienation and frustration.
Perhaps one of the hardest things to remember is that jealousy is a natural human emotion, and it’s OK to feel this way from time to time. Judging ourselves for feeling envious only makes it more difficult to heal. 


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Proverbs 3:31 NLT - 31 Don't envy violent people or copy their ways.
Proverbs 24:1 NLT - 1 Don't envy evil people or desire their company.
Proverbs 24:19 Don’t fret because of evildoers; don’t envy the wicked.
Mark 7:22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
Proverbs 23:17 Don’t envy sinners, but always continue to fear the Lord.
Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
Proverbs 23:17 ESV / --Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.
Matthew 27:18 NLT - 18 (He knew very well that the religious leaders had arrested Jesus out of envy.)
Mark 7:22 NLT - 22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind.Love does not envy,is not boastful, is not conceited,
Romans 1:29 NLT - 29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.
Galatians 5:21 NLT - 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Titus 3:3 NLT - 3 Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.
James 4:5 NLT - 5 What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the spirit God has placed within us is filled with envy?
1 Peter 2:1 - So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
Titus 3:3 - For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
1 Timothy 6:4 - he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
Philippians 1:15 - Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.
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Thursday, July 04, 2024

4th of July Quotes INDEPENDENCE DAY

Quotes About 4th of July (Independence Day)

  • Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.
  • Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.   Abraham Lincoln
  • How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! --THOMAS JEFFERSON
  • Independence is not strength but unrealized weakness and is the very essence of sin. There was no independence in our Lord, the great characteristic of his life was submission to his Father.
  • Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. --THOMAS A. EDISON
  • No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.
  • Of all the different purposes set before mankind, the most disastrous is surely "the pursuit of happiness," slipped into the American Declaration of Independence along with "life and liberty" as an unalienable right, almost accidentally, at the last moment. Happiness is like a young deer, fleet and beautiful. Hunt him, and he becomes a poor frantic quarry; after the kill, a piece of stinking flesh.
  • One flag, one land, one heart, one hand. Happy Independence Day!
  • Sin is not wrongdoing; it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
  • The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. Woodrow Wilson
  • Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  Thomas Paine
  • To all of my friends. I wish you a Happy 4th of July! Have a safe blessed day. May almighty God bless the United States of America! Amen!

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As John Maxwell says in today’s lesson, “The more we grow, the more we know we need to grow.” As we develop ourselves, our awareness of the areas in which we need to improve expands. So, in today’s episode, John teaches something that author Ken Blanchard calls “the four development levels that move people from dependence to independence.” 
In other words, these are the stages through which we become less dependent on what got us here and more focused on what will take us there. After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss their own journeys from dependence to independence and how they are applying these principles at Maxwell Leadership. 


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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.
2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Galatians 5:1 ESV For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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.
John 8:36 ESV So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Action Quotes

Quotes About Action 

  • ...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson
  • A few dozen act while millions stand impotent. --John Fowles
  • A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage…The fact is that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Sydney Smith
  • A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises" are just sitting on the premises. 
  • A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. Albert Schweitzer
  • A ship in a safe harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for. William Shedd
  • Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
  • Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation. Henri Bergson
  • All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. Henry Miller
  • All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. --Aristotle
  • Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. --MARK TWAIN
  • And there's a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Stephen Harvey
  • As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. --ANDREW CARNEGIE
  • Chance favors those in motion. James H. Austin
  • Christian action should be defined as an action of God mediated through a person. ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY BLOOM (1914– )
  • Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. --J.R.R. TOLKIEN
  • Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. Brian Tracy (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 153)
  • Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. W.B. Yeats
  • Do real and permanent good in this world. --Andrew Carnegie
  • Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. –THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  • Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise. Harvey Mackay
  • Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking questions. Denis Waitley
  • Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. Irene Kassorla
  • Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now. Mark Victor Hansen
  • Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
  • Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --WILL ROGERS
  • Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker
  • For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Get Real is about you and the things you do and the things you think about. Jeffrey Gitomer
  • I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. Ben Nicholas
  • In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. --THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  • Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Brendan Francis
  • It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem. Coretta Scott King
  • It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision. William Pollard
  • It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, "What are we busy about"? Henry David Thoreau
  • It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? --Henry David Thoreau
  • It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However, the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it. Bob Proctor
  • It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. Bob Proctor
  • Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action. Richard Keeves
  • Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. --ALBERT EINSTEIN
  • Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. Don Sutton
  • Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. --William James
  • Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. Mark Victor Hansen
  • Once someone loses belief in his ability to achieve something, he loses the drive to attempt it. 
  • One that would have the fruit must climb the tree Thomas Fuller
  • People who want to retire so they can sit under a coconut tree watching the grass grow baffle me. We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. John Maxwell
  • So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don't just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca Former Chairman of Chrysler Corporation
  • Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. Kobi Yamada
  • Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing. Denis Waitley
  • Stop stewing and start doing! Denis Waitley
  • Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands. Zig Ziglar
  • Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, & try another. But by all means, try something. Franklin D Roosevelt
  • Take action every day - some small dose at a time. Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Taking the easy way out can often lead to results that are not so easy to handle. Doing nothing is easy to justify and easy to implement, but in the long run it ends up being a difficult, burdensome way to live. 
  • The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Richard Cushing
  • The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Jim Rohn
  • The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. David Lloyd George
  • The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart
  • The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. William Burnham
  • The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything. Denis Waitley
  • The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Anthony Robbins
  • The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie
  • The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.  Chinese proverb 
  • The shortest answer is doing the thing. --Ernest Hemingway
  • The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Norman Schwarzkopf
  • There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner. Denis Waitley
  • There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad. Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. Rene Descartes
  • Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. Dr. Seuss
  • 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
  • What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. John Ruskin
  • Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. --DORIS LESSING
  • When the heart is right, the feet are swift. THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743–1826)
  • Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe. Ovid
  • Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values. Jim Rohn
  • You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. Caroline Myss
  • You miss 100% of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretsky
  • You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. Jim Rohn


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There is No Success Without Action | MWM
Success Requires Action = Application is an everyday essential for your personal growth. No matter how much you learn, reflect, write, or share, nothing happens without action. When you take action, you build traction, and attract people, places, things, opportunities, and resources that will help you succeed.


MWM | WHEN DIRECTION MEETS DISCIPLINE
Don’t wait—take action today = In his new book From Drift to Drive, Chris talks about the power of action—when direction meets discipline. Growth comes from taking consistent, committed action, even if it’s not perfect. Too often, people wait for clarity or courage. Don’t wait—take action today.



There is No Success Without Action
Success Requires Action = Application is an everyday essential for your personal growth. No matter how much you learn, reflect, write, or share, nothing happens without action. When you take action, you build traction, and attract people, places, things, opportunities, and resources that will help you succeed. 



The Slightest Action is Worth More Than Every Last Word
Be Leaders Of Action = Action makes things happen. It is getting up and acting on what you believe, not relying on feelings, sentiments, or words. Isaiah 41 says, “they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength.” But it is important to understand that waiting doesn’t always mean to sit still … At a restaurant a waiter waits on the tables, but is very active. Waiting on the lord means to be active and busy as you allow God to work in your life. Our waiting today needs to be active service.



Take What You Have and Do Something With It
Activate Powerful, Positive Change = Inside a leader there is a propensity to do something, a passion to make something happen. Take what you have, and do something with it. To the person who has been given much, much is required. This means we need to activate and make the world a better place because everyone deserves to be led well.



Today’s Actions Lead to Tomorrow’s Results
Today’s Intentions Link To Tomorrow’s Successes = Our actions today link to our results tomorrow, and our results tomorrow link to our actions the next day. If you want results tomorrow, realize the link to today’s action. If you want results next year, realize the intentionality needed today. We are better because of links. What will your link be today for a better tomorrow? 


The Greatest Success in Communication is Action - THE LAW OF RESULTS
Take Action! - The greatest success in communication is action. Good communicators want the audience to apply and multiply. They add value to leaders who multiply value in others. Have a plan for growth and take action. You need to take action in order to gain traction to move forward.


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Act Your Way Into Greatness = Is there something you've been holding off on, but know you need to do? The more you wait, the longer it will take to happen. Great things will happen as soon as you take action.


Don't be a Benchwarmer
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Don't be a Benchwarmer = There is no better time than now. Don't wait for life to pass you by, take action today! In order to make something happen, you must act on it. 






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Evaluate your daily actions.
Are they helping you achieve your goals or holding you back? 
Make conscious choices to prioritize what truly matters. 


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James 2:14, 21-22, 25 NLT - 14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don't show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? ... 21 Don't you remember that our ancestor Abraham was shown to be right with God by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see, his faith and his actions worked together. His actions made his faith complete. ... 25 Rahab the prostitute is another example. She was shown to be right with God by her actions when she hid those messengers and sent them safely away by a different road.
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Friday, April 26, 2024

Prayer Quotes

Quotes About Prayer 

  • • Practice hard. • Play harder. • Pray hardest. --
  • 1) Think positively 2) Exercise daily 3) Eat healthily 4) Work hard 5) Stay strong 6) Worry less 7) Pray more 8) Be happy --
  • A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. --
  • A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. Leonard Ravenhill
  • A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Charles H. Spurgeon
  • As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us. Sascha, posted on Motivating Moments
  • Before every major event in His life, we find Jesus stealing away to the secret place of prayer. Brian Zahnd --
  • Before you pray: BELIEVE Before you speak: LISTEN Before you spend: EARN Before you write: THINK Before you quit: TRY Before you die: LIVE --
  • By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answers to our own. --
  • Do not be discouraged at your faults; bear with yourself in correcting them, as you would with your neighbor. Lay aside this ardor of mind, which exhausts your body, and leads you to commit errors. Accustom yourself gradually to carry prayer into all your daily occupations. Speak, move, work, in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. --François Fénelon
  • Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. --
  • For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered. --Nancy Parker Brummett
  • Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positi
  • Four things for success: work & pray, think & believe. --Norman Peale
  • God only gives three answers to prayer: 1. 'Yes!' 2. 'Not yet.' 3. 'I have something better in mind. 
  • God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. Mother Teresa
  • God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him. --Coventry Patmore
  • I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
  • I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. --JEAN INGELOW
  • If the church wants a better preacher, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
  • If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them. John Owen
  • If you have faith when you pray, you will be given whatever you ask for. --Matthew 21:22
  • Jesus understood the connection between prayer and power. --Brian Zahnd
  • Know this above all else, God hears and answers every one of your prayers. --
  • Live simply. Love generously. Speak truthfully. Pray daily. Leave everything else to God.
  • Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy, Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray, Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day. Jan Struther
  • Lord please give me the patience to listen, the courage to speak, the honor to follow, and the wisdom to lead.
  • Never undertake anything for which you would not have the courage to ask the blessing of Heaven. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • Once a believer finds strength in prayer, the game is over for Satan. --Max Lucado
  • People won't get on your nerves if they're on you heart! "God forbid I sin against the Lord by not praying for you" 1 Sam 12:2 --
  • Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you. --
  • Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing. Nancy Otto
  • Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray Bishop Charles H. Brent
  • Pray, and let God worry. Martin Luther
  • Pray, forgive yourself, appreciate others, listen to your gut, do things you enjoy, & remind yourself that we are all loved & connected. --
  • Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. --
  • Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude. --Georges Lefevre
  • Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. --MAHATMA GANDHI
  • Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. S. D. Gordon
  • Prayer: Don't give God instructions -- just report for duty!
  • Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. --EPICURUS
  • See each problem as an invitation to prayer. John Ortberg --
  • So, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe, that you have received it, & it will be yours. --Mark 11:24
  • The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked. Mark Batterson --
  • The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for. --Albert Schweitzer
  • The only way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything. Unknown
  • The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God! --Matthew Henry
  • The tearful praying Christian, whose distress prevent his words, will be clearly understood by the Most High. --Charles H. Spurgeon
  • The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. William McGill
  • There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Brother Lawrence
  • To pray is to change. Richard Foster
  • To pray is to let go and let God take over. --Phil. 4:6-7
  • vely. Pursue persistently. William A. Ward
  • We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. --Mark Batterson 
  • We who by our prayers destroy all demons which stir up wars, violate oaths, and disturb the peace are of more help to the emperors than those who seem to be doing the fighting. Origen
  • When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't. --THOMAS EDISON
  • Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer. Ed Cole
  • You can do more than pray, but can't do more until you pray. 
  • Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. --LAURENCE STERNE
  • I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. --FREDERICK DOUGLASS
  • Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



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