The best inspirational quotes are distributed daily to make a positive difference in your life. Many of these Kevin Rayner has collected for preaching / teaching. You could call some, "Sentence Sermons."
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A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. --Laura Gilpin
Be a river - not a reservoir. --John C. Maxwell
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. --Leonardo da Vinci
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. --Hal Boyle
Rivers flow with energy and purpose to those people and regions that need the water—that need its sustainability and life-giving properties to thrive and grow, flourish and survive. So, when you set out to determine the kind of leader you want to be, think “river” and not “reservoir.” A reservoir stores up that source of encouragement and nourishment, and it never gets to where it needs to go. But a river brings the source to where it’s needed most. A river adds value, while a reservoir hoards it. Choose to be the river in people’s lives.
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you. -- Jimi Hendrix
Revelation 21:5 ESV And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Isaiah 43:19 ESV Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Romans 12:2 ESV Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 1:12 ESV But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me. - Meister Eckhart
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds. - Marcel Proust
There is no truth, only perception of truth. - Gustave Flaubert
Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
2 Corinthians 2:15 Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing.
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Romans 1:20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
Proverbs 24:3 (NLT) A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense.
Proverbs 13:15 (NLT) A person with good sense is respected; a treacherous person is headed for destruction.
Proverbs 8:14 (NLT) Common sense and success belong to me. Insight and strength are mine.
Proverbs 10:21 (NLT) The words of the godly encourage many, but fools are destroyed by their lack of common sense.
Proverbs 24:30 (NLT) I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one with no common sense.
Philippians 1:9 And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ,
Ecclesiastes 2:14 ESV The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.
Genesis 7:24 (MSG) The floodwaters took over for 150 days.
Proverbs 18:4 (MSG) Many words rush along like rivers in flood, but deep wisdom flows up from artesian springs.
Genesis 7:7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Revelation 12:15 - The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
2 Peter 2:5 - if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
1 Peter 4:4 - With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
Luke 17:27 - They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 6:48 - he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
Genesis 7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. ...
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. --EPICTETUS
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Anger is a prelude to courage. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. Joan Rivers, Still Talking (Reader's Digest, July 1993)
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. - Seneca
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. –THOMAS À KEMPIS
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble. — Chinese Proverb
He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny (1886-1952) Nurse
He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. Japanese proverb
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve, "The Mourning Bride"
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances Willard (1839-1898) Educator
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? Sydney J. Harris
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb
It is far easier to leave angry words unspoken than to mend the heart those words have broken. Author Unknown
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. Stanley Horowitz
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats Memoirs
Remember, every minute spent angry, is sixty seconds of happiness wasted.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Carrie Fisher
Someone has said, "He is a real match head"
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. Laurence J. Peter
Speak when you're angry--and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. Henry Ward Beecher
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. --Louis L'Amour
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. --Mark Twain
Anger Is A Choice = Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath. Anger can be a destructive force in your life. It can lead to your emotions getting out of bounds. We need to control our anger. Anger is a destructive choice.
Have Hope For Change = John Maxwell begins his book, Change Your World, with the statement, “Hope has two daughters, anger and courage.” Anger at how things currently are, and courage to go make a difference. That is how we can change our world.
We need to be angry about the unfair, injustices of the world. The things that won’t improve unless we are angry enough to do something about them. We need courage to stand up, declare that we want to make a difference, and do something about the issues.
It is important to understand that before we can change our world, we have to change ourselves. Transformation doesn’t begin with others, it begins with yourself. The moment we make good decisions, embrace good values, and do our part to make a difference, we are able to help others make a difference also.
Control Your Emotions = Although it may be easy to get caught up in your emotions, don't get stuck in the anger hole! We are given a choice daily, do not allow anger to consume you and destroy the journey you are taking. Let go of what you cannot control and focus on what you can.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. --Bruce Barton
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Zhuangzi, Chinese Philosopher
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. --Washington Irving
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. --Jim Hightower
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all have those moments when “surprise” slaps us in the face halting our flow. But it’s not what happens to us, it’s what happens in us that ultimately determines our success. When your forward momentum is strained, look inward—get your attitude right and everything else will “flow” just the way it should.
