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Monday, September 18, 2023

Maturity Quotes

Quotes About Maturity

  • Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. -- Joshua L. Liebman
  • I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work. --Jane Badler, American Actress (1953-  )
  • Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. --Joshua L. Liebman
  • Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. --Jim Rohn
  • Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. --Marianne Williamson
  • Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. --John Huston Finley
  • Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. --Jules Feiffer
  • Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. --Tom Stoppard
  • Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. --A. Edison
  • A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. --Eleanor Roosevelt
  • The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity. --Joan D. Chittister
  • Age is just a number, maturity is a choice. --Harry Styles
  • There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. --D. A. Carson
  • God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. --Reinhold Niebuhr





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1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
Philippians 3:15 Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you.
Luke 8:14 - And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
1 Corinthians 2:6 - Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
1 Corinthians 14:20 - Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Ephesians 4:13 - until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Philippians 3:15 - Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
Colossians 1:28 - Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Colossians 4:12 - Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
Hebrews 5:14 - But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 6:1 - Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 12:2 [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].
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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Mentorship Quotes

Quotes About Mentorship

  • Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. -- John C. Crosby
  • My mentor said, "Let's go do it," not "You go do it." How powerful when someone says, "Let's!" — Jim Rohn
  • Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself. — Conrado I. Generoso
  • What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have. — Clint Eastwood
  • What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. ― Paulo Coelho
  • A mentor takes people where they want to go. A great mentor takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be. — Rosalynn Carter
  • Show me a successful individual, and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living — if you do it well, I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor. — Denzel Washington



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Time To Step Up = Mentors don’t only provide wise counsel, but they lead by example. They have the opportunity to groom and cultivate others for success. You need mentors in your life, but maybe it is time to step up and mentor someone else.




Someone to Believe in You - People who know the way, go the way, and show the way. These people are called, Mentors. How special to have people in your life who want to see you become successful and deposit special information they know will help you grow. Who is your biggest mentor?





Leadership is visual—people will do what they see. When one person is doing and another person is watching, the person “doing” has become the other person’s mentor. And that person who is watching, is also likely growing. Spend time with others, keep them close-by, and let them watch you. You should be doing what you know they can become. That’s how you add value to others as a leader and mentor.



Today’s word is MENTORING, and these are just 4 defining characteristics of a quality mentor.



1. Walks alongside you
2. A brain to pick
3. An ear to listen
4. Possesses maturity

A mentor brings their experience into your life and colors it with maturity, soundness, and wisdom. A mentor is someone who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.


Whether it is your favorite author, or perhaps a life-long friend, look for the person who can help guide you on the successful path in life and wants to see you succeed.








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Proverbs 5:13 HCSB I didn’t obey my teachers or listen closely to my mentors.



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Friday, August 05, 2022

Money Quotes

Quotes about Money

  • I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. --CALVIN COOLIDGE
  • A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. 
  • A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. --Henry Ford
  • A fool and his money are soon partying. 
  • An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. --Emil Zatopek
  • Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. –BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  • Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. --Henry Chester
  • Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each. --Christopher Rice
  • For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. --SENECA
  • Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them. Fanny Jackson Coppin
  • I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Mark Twain
  • I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. --Arthur Godfrey
  • I have never been a millionaire. But I have enjoyed a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a walk with a friend and a hug from a child. There are plenty of life's tiny delights for all of us. Jack Anthony
  • If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty
  • If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money. New England Proverb
  • If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker
  • If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. Les Giblin
  • In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) 
  • It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. – Sir Philip Gibbs
  • It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. --George Horace Lorimer, journalist
  • It's good to have money and things that money can buy,but its good too to check once in a while and make sure you haven't lost things that money can't buy e.g LOVE AND TRUST! --
  • I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Kurt Vonnegut's self-written eulogy: Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum. Love, 2006 A.D. Kurt Vonnegut
  • Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta (1950), US TV showman
  • Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. --Goethe
  • Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. --Ann Landers 
  • Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money. --
  • Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. --Clare Boothe Luce --
  • Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. --P.T. Barnum
  • Money is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. --P.T. Barnum
  • Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone. --Mae West
  • Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. –Ayn Rand
  • Money is spent and forgotten, while unforgettable memories live on. --Justine Kerfoot (Woman of the Boundary Waters)
  • Money is the root of all evil. Send me $10 for more information.  --Woody Paige
  • Money is the wealthy man's curtain which hides all his defects from the world. --
  • Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. --Benjamin Franklin
  • Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. "The more a man has, the more he wants." "Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one." --Ben Franklin
  • Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. --Donald Trump
  • Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson
  • Poverty is not being without money, but being without hope. --unknown
  • Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. --Warren Buffett
  • Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. Greer Garson (1904-1996) Actor
  • Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. --Mike Ditka
  • Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is having money & fame, but excellence is being the best you can be  --Mike Ditka
  • Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline & inner peace. --Mike Ditka
  • The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. Bernard Meltzer (1914-) American Law Professor
  • There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.   Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) 
  • Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist
  • Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. --Jim Rohn
  • To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.  --Donald A. Adams 
  • To make money we lose our health and then to restore our health we lose money. We live as if we are never going to die and we die as if we never lived. --unknown
  • Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. --Will Smith
  • Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right. --Kurt Herbert Alder
  • Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. --Epictetus
  • What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. Henny Young man
  • Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow. --Unknown
  • You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. --Garth Brooks
  • Your input will determine your output, so guard what you put in and you won't be put out. Peter Sinclair

Money Creates Options | MWM
Money Gives You Options = Money gives you options. You are able to make more decisions in your life—the kind of car you drive, vacations you can take, and options on generosity. You cannot give what you do not have—if you want to give more, do more, experience more, and have more options in life—it really does come back to making more money. 





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Hebrews 13:5 ESV Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 22:7 ESV The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Matthew 6:24 ESV “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Luke 12:15 ESV And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
Proverbs 13:22 ESV A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Proverbs 22:1 ESV A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.


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Friday, November 25, 2022

Progress Quotes

 Quotes About Progress

  • Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. --Ogden Nash
  • Progress requires change. --Andy Stanley
  • Progress equals happiness. --Tony Robbins
  • Nothing can be done except little by little. --CHARLES BAUDELAIRE



 




The Significance of Small Steps | MWM
Small Steps Are The Stepping Stone To Bigger Things = Quantum leaps do not happen without small steps. What small steps have you decided not to take because you were looking for a bigger one? The quantum leaps that you desire will not happen without short, mundane, seemingly insignificant small steps. By taking those small, persistent steps, you can find success.



Perfectionism is Rooted in Fear
Chose Progress Over Perfection = So many of us struggle with perfectionism. It is rooted in fear and can lead to procrastination. Instead of being a perfectionist, focus on excellence—learning in the journey—the process of making something good and then great. Perfectionism is elusive, it is a state that you can never reach. If you choose excellence over perfectionism, you are choosing progress over perfection.

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1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord Himself that [instruction] which I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which He was betrayed took bread;
Ephesians 4:29 Do not let unwholesome [foul, profane, worthless, vulgar] words ever come out of your mouth, but only such speech as is good for building up others, according to the need and the occasion, so that it will be a blessing to those who hear [you speak].
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
1 Corinthians 8:9 But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.
Philippians 1:12 Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel,
1 Thessalonians 4:1 Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.
Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested [that is, as the testing of his faith was still in progress], offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises [of God] was ready to sacrifice his only son [of promise];
Luke 13:22 And he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;
2 Timothy 3:9 But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.
1 Timothy 4:15 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.
Philippians 1:25 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,
Philippians 3:16 (NLT) But we must hold on to the progress we have already made.
1 Timothy 4:15 (NLT) Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress.
John 13:2-17 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. ...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

Nurture quotes

Quotes About Nurture

  • Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli
  • There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. --Gerald R. Ford
  • Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them- we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare. --Brené Brown
  • God is less interested in answering our questions than in other things: securing our allegiance, establishing our faith, nurturing a desire for holiness. --‌D. A. Carson
  • Jesus insists that there is a relational love at stake that must be nurtured and preserved. --D. A. Carson
  • Love for God cannot be sustained without a relationship with him, and such a relationship is nurtured by prayer. --Thomas Schreiner
  • But where there are signs of life it’s more important to feed and nurture it than to spend much time going over and over what happened at the moment of birth. --N. T. Wright
  • First, unbelief can be nurtured by an unrealistic attitude to faith. --R. C. Sproul




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Galatians 6:6 (MSG) Be very sure now, you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity, that you enter into a generous common life with those who have trained you, sharing all the good things that you have and experience.
Luke 6:24 (MSG) But it’s trouble ahead if you think you have it made. What you have is all you’ll ever get.
Psalm 144:12 May our sons flourish in their youth like well-nurtured plants. May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Enthusiasm Quotes

Quotes About Enthusiasm
  • Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest. Paul J. Meyer
  • Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. Henry Chester
  • Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. Henry Chester
  • Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough. Paul J. Meyer
  • Enthusiasm moves the world. Arthur Balfour
  • Enthusiasm signifies God in us. Madame de Stael
  • Enthusiasm without knowledge is like running in the dark. Get on fire for God and men will come to see you burn. - John Wesley
  • If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi
  • If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. –Norman Vincent Peale
  • Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Arthur Ashe
  • Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
  • We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. --CHARLES KINGSLEY






Attitudes are Contagious — Is Yours Worth Catching?
Get Fired Up = Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching? It is a driver for excellence and a way to bring others along with you. Bring enthusiasm to everything you do today. 


Share Your Enthusiasm = Live enthusiastically, and be contagious with your enthusiasm. By keeping your dreams alive and creating new dreams and goals, no matter your stage in life, you can grow the enthusiasm in yourself and others.


Live in Enthusiasm = Eat, Pray, Love, and be enthusiastic. 






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Philippians 2:12 So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed [my instructions with enthusiasm], not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation [that is, cultivate it, bring it to full effect, actively pursue spiritual maturity] with awe-inspired fear and trembling [using serious caution and critical self-evaluation to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ].
Colossians 3:23 Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,
Proverbs 19:2 (NLT) Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes.
Romans 10:2 (NLT) I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.
2 Corinthians 8:16 (NLT) But thank God! He has given Titus the same enthusiasm for you that I have.
Ephesians 6:7 (NLT) Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Ephesians 6:7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,
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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Advice Quotes

Quotes about Advice
  • All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.  Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life
  • Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.  –Chinese proverb
  • Don't let other people tell you what you want. Pat Riley
  • Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.  Robert S. Lynd
  • I desperately need some wise advice which will recommend that I do what I want to do.
  • If you're called upon to give advice, you should know that it is like snow: The softer it falls, the deeper it goes.
  • It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. -Dame Rose Macaulay
  • It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, and normal to ignore it.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Harper Lee (1926- ); US novelist.
  • Never complain that things aren't what they used to be ... neither are you.
  • Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.  - Cicero
  • Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. P Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
  • The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. – Kenneth Grahame
  • When at home, amuse yourself. When visiting, try to amuse others.
  • When you need advice, everyone is ready to help you; but when you need help, everyone is ready to advise you.
  • Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. --Harper Lee 


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How We View Things Is How We Do Things = Asking for advice or counsel is a high complement to others. When you receive counsel, you gain another perspective. With perspective, comes maturity and the ability to see more. Let other people help you reach your potential. 








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Proverbs 19:20 ESV Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 12:15 ESV The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs 24:6 ESV For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Proverbs 14:15 ESV The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.


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    Leaders should consider the advice of others (Exodus 18:13–26)
    Older people often give wise advice (1 Kings 12:1–11)
    Stay away from people who give wicked advice (Psalm 1:1)
    God’s advice is best (Psalm 73:24)
    Wise people seek advice (Proverbs 1:5)
    Advice helps provide success (Proverbs 11:14)
    Foolish people do not listen to advice (Proverbs 12:15)
    Give advice to those in need (1 Thessalonians 5:14)


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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Vulnerable Quotes

Quotes About Being Vulnerable or Vulnerability

  • The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. --ERNEST HEMINGWAY  
  • Caring is sometimes allowing ourselves to be vulnerable towards hidden hurts in the pleasure of caring....
  • Give but don't feel the need to be abused. Love but don't allow your heart to be misused. Trust, but don't be naive. Listen to others, but don't lose your voice.
  • Love is vulnerability. Happiness is vulnerability. The risk of being vulnerable is the price of opening yourself to beauty and opportunity. Being vulnerable is not about showing the parts of you that are polished; it's about revealing the unpolished parts you would rather keep hidden from the world. It's about looking out into the world with an honest, open heart and saying, This is me. Take me or leave me.
  • Terror and tragedy have made us more aware of our vulnerabilities and mortality ... We're living through a time of testing and consequence, and pray that our wisdom and will are equal to the work before us. Condoleeza Rice 
  • There is not one marriage in today's culture that is not vulnerable. Why? Because we've allowed the culture to seep into our souls. ... Clearly we can no longer pattern our marriages after the people around us -- if we ever could. Not only does the world not know how to divorce-proof its marriages, it is well on the way to making broken relationships the norm! Dr. Fred Lowery
  • To be is to be vulnerable. --Norman O. Brown
  • Love makes me feel vulnerable. --Joshua Radin
  • To love is to be vulnerable...  --C. S. Lewis
  • To be alive is to be vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle
  • Silence makes me feel vulnerable. --Eric Lange
  • I love, therefore I am vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle
  • To love at all is to be vulnerable. --C. S. Lewis
  • When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. --Joyce Brothers
  • Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. --Neil Gaiman
  • When believers are living in unconfessed sin, they are vulnerable to the assaults of Satan. ‌--R. C. Sproul
  • God is impassible in the sense that he sustains no “passion,” no emotion, that makes him vulnerable from the outside, over which he has no control, or which he has not foreseen. ‌--D. A. Carson
  • It matters because without maturity Christians are very, very vulnerable to all kinds of trickery that may well take them a long way away from where they ought to be.‌ --N. T. Wright









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Learn And Grow = Vulnerable people are authentic, real, genuine, and Honest. When we become vulnerable we are in touch with who we are. We become teachable because we are no longer carried away with ourselves. Vulnerability allows us to learn and grow.


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Genesis 42:9 (MSG) Joseph, remembering the dreams he had dreamed of them, said, “You’re spies. You’ve come to look for our weak spots.”
2 Timothy 3:6 They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires.
James 5:16 ESV Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Hebrews 4:15-16 ESV For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Perfection Quotes

Quotes About Perfection
  • This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it. – Richard Baxter
  • Perfection is unattainable, but worth trying.
  • Perfection is the child of time. –Joseph Hall
  • Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. –Vince Lombardi
  • Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. –Emile Zola
  • And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. --JOHN STEINBECK
  • Perfection doesn't exist. –Andres Iniesta
  • Perfection is pure-fiction. –Janelle Jalbert
  • I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. --MICHAEL J. FOX





Do People Really Want Perfect? | MWM
Progress Over Perfectionism = Being perfect or perfectionism is often viewed as the goal, but what people truly seek is authenticity—someone they can know, like, and trust. It's okay to be vulnerable and show the real you because progress, not perfection, is what truly matters. By embracing our imperfections and allowing others to see our true selves, we build trust and deepen connections.




Perfectionism is Rooted in Fear
Chose Progress Over Perfection = So many of us struggle with perfectionism. It is rooted in fear and can lead to procrastination. Instead of being a perfectionist, focus on excellence—learning in the journey—the process of making something good and then great. Perfectionism is elusive, it is a state that you can never reach. If you choose excellence over perfectionism, you are choosing progress over perfection.


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Hebrews 12:2 [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Philippians 3:12 I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
Job 37:16 (NLT) Do you understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill?
Hebrews 7:11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?
Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Matthew 5:48 ESV You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Philippians 3:12-15 ESV Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
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