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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Troubles and Trials Quotes

Quotes About Troubles and Trials 

  • A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. --SENECA
  • A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. -- English proverb
  • God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage
  • I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. --Rudyard Kipling
  • I do not know anyone who goes through life without some wounding of the heart. Sometimes we take a little shower at Calvary rather than let God deeply cut and wash away the hurts with His atoning blood. Cindy Jacobs
  • 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 God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
  • If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. --Thomas Paine
  • If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. --CALVIN COOLIDGE
  • In the sorest trials God often makes the sweetest discoveries of Himself.
  • Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble. G. K. Chesterton
  • The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. --Thomas Paine
  • Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow. – Warren Wiersbe
  • Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things... We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials, God is shaping us for higher things. --Henry Ward Beecher
  • I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. --THEODORE ROOSEVELT



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1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Peter 3:14 - But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
Hebrews 12:15 - See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
James 1:12 (MSG) Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.
James 1:12 ESV Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 18:28  Jesus' trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor. His accusers didn't go inside because it would defile them, and they wouldn't be allowed to celebrate the Passover.
Matthew 6:34 (MSG) “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Philippians 3:1 - Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
Philippians 4:14 - Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.
Proverbs 12:13 The wicked are trapped by their own words, but the godly escape such trouble.
Proverbs 17:20 The crooked heart will not prosper; the lying tongue tumbles into trouble.
Psalms 25:16 (MSG) Look at me and help me! I’m all alone and in big trouble.
Romans 7:14 So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.
Romans 8:28 ESV And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
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Friday, December 15, 2023

Clever Quotes

Quotes About Clever 

  • Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. --Henri Frederic Amiel


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Genesis 3:1 (MSG) The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: “Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?”
Proverbs 21:30 (MSG) Nothing clever, nothing conceived, nothing contrived, can get the better of God .
Proverbs 22:3 (MSG) A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks; a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
Proverbs 14:18 (MSG) Foolish dreamers live in a world of illusion; wise realists plant their feet on the ground.
Proverbs 27:12 (MSG) A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks; a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
Proverbs 14:15 (MSG) The gullible believe anything they’re told; the prudent sift and weigh every word.
Proverbs 12:23 (MSG) Prudent people don’t flaunt their knowledge; talkative fools broadcast their silliness.
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the Good News - and not with clever speech, for fear that the cross of Christ would lose its power.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them. In this way, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves.
2 Peter 1:16 - For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Naive Quotes

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  • Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do? --Jim Rohn









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Proverbs 14:18 (MSG) Foolish dreamers live in a world of illusion; wise realists plant their feet on the ground.
Proverbs 14:15 (MSG) The gullible believe anything they’re told; the prudent sift and weigh every word.
Proverbs 27:12 (MSG) A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks; a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
Proverbs 22:3 (MSG) A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks; a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
Proverbs 21:11 (MSG) Simpletons only learn the hard way, but the wise learn by listening.
Proverbs 19:25 (MSG) Punish the insolent—make an example of them. Who knows? Somebody might learn a good lesson.
Proverbs 7:7 I saw some naive young men, and one in particular who lacked common sense.
Romans 16:18 - For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Proverbs 1:4 for giving prudence to the naive, and knowledge and discretion to the young.
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Thursday, May 02, 2024

Positive Attitude Quotes

Quotes About Positive Attitude

  • A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else. --John Burroughs
  • A positive attitude is like a fire: Unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out. --from Positive Charges by Alexander Lockhart
  • Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. --F. Hawes
  • Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position. --Salman Rushdie
  • Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James
  • By age 16 the average person receives 173,000 negative messages about themselves (29.6 per day). On the other hand the same person will receive 16,000 positive messages about themselves (2.7 per day). - Life Studies Institute
  • Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day. — Alice Morse Earle
  • I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. --Martin Luther
  • If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. — Maya Angelou
  • In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. — Norman Vincent Peale
  • I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves. --Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild TV show
  • Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. — Henry David Thoreau
  • Many people believe that support is something that you give to someone you feel sorry for or that it means propping up someone who would fail unless you were there to give him a boost. But that's not the way I see it. Support is the boost you can give someone who can help himself but who needs a partner to open a window or push aside a roadblock. --Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's
  • Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world. — Amit Ray
  • Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. --BENJAMIN DISRAELI
  • Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton
  • Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain. ??— Edmond Mbiaka
  • Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. --Carrie Fisher
  • Supplementing your daily routine with positivism can only make you stronger. Because once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start having more positive results. And over time, as this habit helps you reduce stress, release your hurt, and not take things so personally, you will not only feel better, you will look younger and live longer too. 
  • The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. — Oprah Winfrey
  • The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. — Hippocrates
  • The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. — often attributed to Winston Churchill
  • There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. --James Truslow Adams
  • There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. --Victor Robinsoll
  • Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. — John Wooden
  • Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. --ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO
  • You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. --Emmet Fox
  • You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside. --Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros
  • You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. — Joyce Meyer
  • You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down. — Charlie Chaplin
  • When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. --Willie Nelson

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  • It's sad how some people are so jealous and intimidated by you that they only have negative things to say when they know absolutely nothing about you.
  • Negativity is a very nasty and contagious disease. Remove yourself from all negative people, situations, and things. Choosing to be positive will help you maintain a better attitude, better health, and mindset. To God be the Glory.
  • The best relationship is one in which you feel free to show even your negative side and still have the hope that it will strengthen your relationship.
  • There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining anymore. --LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY




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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Bitterness Quotes

Quotes about Bitterness
  • We cannot live with bitterness because it will first manifest itself in our spirit, then in our emotions, and finally in our bodies. Tom Drout
  • One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burned. Dutch Proverb
  • Bitterness is like drinking poison & waiting for the other person to die.  Steve Ostten
  • Let your past make you better, not bitter.



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Ephesians 4:31 ESV Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Acts 8:23 ESV For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:26 ESV Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Hebrews 12:14-15 ESV Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
Romans 3:14 ESV “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
Amos 5:7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Prosper Quotes

Quotes About Prosper

  • Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.  Daniel Webster 
  • A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
  • The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.  Theodore Roosevelt
  • We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. Dwight L. Moody
  • A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track, but one inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity. Henry Ward Beecher 
  • In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. John Churton Collins?
  • For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper u & not to harm you, plans to give you hope & a future. Jer 29:11
  • God is well able to take care of us. He can prosper us even in the desert if we'll just be bold enough to believe.
  • When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! --John Wesley
  • It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn. --Adrian Rogers
  • God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving. --Randy Alcorn
  • Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. --Calvin Coolidge
  • Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. --THOMAS PAINE





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Psalms 1:1 (MSG) How well God must like you— you don’t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-bats, you don’t stand with the good-for-nothings, you don’t take your seat among the know-it-alls.
Proverbs 19:8 (MSG) Grow a wise heart—you’ll do yourself a favor; keep a clear head—you’ll find a good life.
Proverbs 28:13 (MSG) You can’t whitewash your sins and get by with it; you find mercy by admitting and leaving them.
Jeremiah 29:12 (MSG) “When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen.
Proverbs 28:25 (MSG) A grasping person stirs up trouble, but trust in God brings a sense of well-being.
Proverbs 11:25 (MSG) The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped.
Joshua 1:8 This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to recite it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.
Job 21:23 One person dies in prosperity, completely comfortable and secure,
Job 5:11 He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
3 John 1:2 ESV Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
John 10:10 ESV The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022

Marriage Quotes

Quotes About Marriage
  • A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband.
  • A spouse is someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
  • I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.  --Rita Rudner 
  • I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. --Unknown
  • If you are a child of God and you marry a child of the Devil, you're going to have trouble with your father-in-law.  --Max Lucado
  • It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. --Helen Rowland (1876-1950) American Journalist
  • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. --Benjamin Franklin
  • Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. --Benjamin Franklin
  • Marriage takes FAR MORE than love! In the right situation,u can fall in love with ANYONE but a marriage would be a disaster. --Rick Warren
  • Marriage: The leading cause of divorce  --Woody Paige
  • The person who marries for money will soon discover that's the hardest way to earn it.
  • To my single adult friends: You attract what you ARE, not what you WANT. If you want a godly lifemate, you must be one. --Rick Warren
  • A happy marriage consists of two good forgives. --ROBERT QUILLEN
  • My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. --WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
  • A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. --ANDRÉ MAUROIS





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Genesis 2:24 ESV Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...
Proverbs 18:22 ESV He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?


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Sunday, May 28, 2023

Hardship Quotes

Quotes About Hardship

  • Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
  • And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ― Haruki Murakami
  • God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before. --Otto Dibelius
  • I have felt pain, I have endured hardship, I have suffered loss of loved ones and I have memories I want to forget. However, these things have made me stronger and today I face the world with a smile, because I know things will always get better and those who love me will always be there for me.
  • I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ― Thomas A. Edison
  • I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
  • No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice. -- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. - Zig Ziglar 
  • The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. – Randy Pausch
  • The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Moliere
  • The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ― Elisabeth KĂ¼bler-Ross
  • There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
  • What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. --Epictitus
  • When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.  --Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. – Maya Angelou
  • You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. – Joel Osteen
  • No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. --CHARLES KETTERING
  • Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. --G. MICHAEL HOPF
  • Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. --ALEXANDRE DUMAS
  • A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. --HELEN KELLER







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2 Timothy 1:8 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;
2 Timothy 4:5 But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
James 1:2-4 ESV Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
John 15:18-20 ESV “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
Romans 8:35-39 ESV Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Peter 4:13 ESV But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
2 Timothy 2:3 ESV Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:28 ESV And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 15:4 ESV For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
2 Timothy 3:12 ESV Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
Jonah 1:4 Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. 5 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

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  • It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. --John Ruskin
  • A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
  • A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help. - Dorotheus of Gaza
  • A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
  • A vain man can never be utterly ruthless; he wants to win applause, and therefore he accommodates himself to others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
  • Absalom was vain about his hair, therefore was he hanged by his hair. Talmud
  • An egotist is a man whose self-importance makes his mind shrink while his head swells.
  • And the devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
  • Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear ... Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
  • Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one. ~ Mike Aquilina   (Love in the Little Things: Tales of Family Life) 
  • In the final analysis our great problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish, that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes. - Floyd McClung
  • In the final analysis, our great problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish, that's our problem.  And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes.     -- Floyd McClung
  • March 6 is: Middle Name Pride Day
  • Men can heal lust. Angels can heal malice. God alone can cure pride.
  • Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them. - St. Augustine of Hippo
  • Pain is temporary, pride is forever. -- Anonymous
  • Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow. -- August B. Black 
  • Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last. - George Swinnock
  • Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. - John Climacus
  • Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have. - Author Unknown
  • Pride keeps us from admitting our powerlessness; meekness opens the door for God's blessings.
  • Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ~ Thomas Merton (No Man is an Island)
  • Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher
  • Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility. - Larry Burkett
  • Some people serve with pride -- because they 'want to' do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they 'have to' do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show? -- Jeffrey Gitomer 
  • Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening. - Frank Tyger 
  • The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it. ~ Lloyd Dobens 
  • Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
  • Two of the most deadly roadblocks to peace are discouragement and pride. The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it. The antidote for the poison of pride is humility.  ~ Stephen R. Covey (First Things First)
  • When I survey the wondrous cross,|On which the Prince of Glory died,|My richest gain I count but loss,|And pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts
  • Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-things over which we never thought He would have to get us alone. - Oswald Chambers
  • You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride. ~ Charleszetta Waddle
  • Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. --JULES RENARD
  • Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. --THOMAS JEFFERSON




The #1 Source of Our Problems | MWM
Share Credit And Admit Your Mistakes = As one of the greatest sins of mankind, pride has gotten us into a lot of trouble. It can be a positive thing when we take pride in our accomplishments as long as we share credit with others and do not become arrogant.




What Are You Proud Of? | MWM
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Feel Grateful Instead Of Prideful = Pride can be about wanting admiration from others, and we often take pride in things that we haven’t earned or had any part in. Pride can mature into gratitude, but gratitude can sour into pride. Being grateful is better than being prideful over something. 



Admit Your Mistakes And Share Credit = As one of the greatest sins for mankind, pride has gotten us into a lot of trouble. It can be a positive thing when we take pride in our accomplishments as long as we share credit with others and do not become arrogant.




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Proverbs 11:2 ESV When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 29:23 ESV One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 16:18 ESV Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 8:13 ESV The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
James 4:6 ESV But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Proverbs 16:5 ESV Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Romans 12:16 ESV Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Proverbs 18:12 ESV Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
1 John 2:16 ESV For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
Psalm 10:4 ESV In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
Proverbs 13:10 ESV By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.


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