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Sunday, September 03, 2023

Worship Quotes

Quotes About Worship

  • Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. --Bodhidharma, Indian Leader
  • To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are. --Brother Lawrence
  • Worship is transcendent wonder. --Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher (1795-1881)
  • Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. --Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator (1907-1972)
  • Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them. --Elisabeth Elliot
  • When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry. --Rick Warren
  • I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence. --John Ortberg
  • It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge
  • Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship. Douglas Horton
  • Worship changes the worshiper into the image of One worshiped" ~ Jack W. Hayford"Worship changes the worshiper into the image of One worshiped. --Jack W. Hayford
  • And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.  Kelly Sparks
  • If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship.  Michael Catt
  • If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.  Henry Sloane Coffin
  • I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher
  • God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not He who cried, "God, where art Thou?" It was God who cried, "Adam, where art thou? --A. W. Tozer
  • Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, the nourishment of the mind with His truth, the purifying of the imagination of His beauty, the opening of the heart to His love, the surrender of the will to His purpose. --William Temple
  • Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. --Richard J. Foster
  • The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. --Billy Graham




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Psalms 100:4 (MSG) Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him.
Psalms 34:9 (MSG) Worship God if you want the best; worship opens doors to all his goodness.
Psalm 95:6 ESV Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
1 Chronicles 23:32 (MSG) In short, the Levites, with the sons of Aaron as their companions in the ministry of holy worship, were responsible for everything that had to do with worship: the place and times and ordering of worship.
John 4:23-24 But the time is coming - indeed it’s here now - when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
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Thursday, November 23, 2023

Religion Quotes

Quotes About Religion 

  • Daniel Webster    ---  If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. (Earliest source, for a small part of this, is Essays, moral and religious, by Edward Thomson and Davis Wasgatt Clark, 1856, p. 213; the earliest version of the full wording appears to be in A dictionary of thoughts: being a cyclopedia of laconic quotations, 1891, p. 49).
  • May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.' --Samuel Adams
  • Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. --William Barclay, Scottish Theologian (1907-1978)
  • The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it. --James Madison
  • The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God. --John Adams
  • The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among parchments and musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. --Alexander Hamilton
  • This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. --Benjamin Franklin
  • While we are zealously performing the duties of good Citizens and soldiers we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of Religion. To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian. --George Washington
  • Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. --George Washington
  • When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion. --Abraham Lincoln





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RELIGION, n. relij'on. [L. religio, from religo, to bind anew; re and ligo, to bind. This word seems originally to have signified an oath or vow to the gods, or the obligation of such an oath or vow, which was held very sacred by the Romans.]
1. Religion, in its most comprehensive sense, includes a belief in the being and perfections of God, in the revelation of his will to man, in man's obligation to obey his commands, in a state of reward and punishment, and in man's accountableness to God; and also true godliness or piety of life, with the practice of all moral duties. It therefore comprehends theology, as a system of doctrines or principles, as well as practical piety; for the practice of moral duties without a belief in a divine lawgiver, and without reference to his will or commands, is not religion.
2. Religion, as distinct from theology, is godliness or real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men, in obedience to divine command, or from love to God and his law. James 1.
3. Religion, as distinct from virtue, or morality, consists in the performance of the duties we owe directly to God, from a principle of obedience to his will. Hence we often speak of religion and virtue, as different branches of one system, or the duties of the first and second tables of the law.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
4. Any system of faith and worship. In this sense, religion comprehends the belief and worship of pagans and Mohammedans, as well as of christians; any religion consisting in the belief of a superior power or powers governing the world, and in the worship of such power or powers. Thus we speak of the religion of the Turks, of the Hindoos, of the Indians, &c. as well as of the christian religion. We speak of false religion, as well as of true religion.
5. The rites of religion; in the plural.


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Proverbs 21:3 (MSG) Clean living before God and justice with our neighbors mean far more to God than religious performance.
Mark 9:11 (MSG) Meanwhile they were asking, “Why do the religion scholars say that Elijah has to come first?”
Luke 10:37 (MSG) “The one who treated him kindly,” the religion scholar responded. Jesus said, “Go and do the same.”
Matthew 17:10 (MSG) The disciples, meanwhile, were asking questions. “Why do the religion scholars say that Elijah has to come first?”
Luke 11:45 (MSG) One of the religion scholars spoke up: “Teacher, do you realize that in saying these things you’re insulting us?”
Mark 7:5 (MSG) The Pharisees and religion scholars asked, “Why do your disciples brush off the rules, showing up at meals without washing their hands?”
Acts 25:8 (MSG) Then Paul took the stand and said simply, “I’ve done nothing wrong against the Jewish religion, or the Temple, or Caesar. Period.”
Luke 10:25 (MSG) Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?”
James 1:27 - Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:26 - If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
Colossians 2:23 - These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Acts 26:5 - They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.
Acts 25:19 - Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.
Galatians 1:13 You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion - how I violently persecuted God’s church. I did my best to destroy it.
1 Timothy 5:4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
Colossians 2:23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,
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Sunday, September 04, 2022

Sacrifice Quotes

Quotes About Sacrifice
  • Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to sacrifice to become what you would like to be.
  • Leaders never say "Go!" They say "Let's go!" Not "Do" but "Let's do" They sacrifice first, long before asking others.
  • One secret to successful teamwork is converting individual ego into team confidence, individual sacrifice, & synergy. John Maxwell
  • Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. Charlie Finley
  • Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice -- only the willingness to make it when necessary. Fredrick Dunn
  • What am I willing to sacrifice for what I want to become?
  • True success requires sacrifice.


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1 John 2:2 It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.
Hebrews 13:16 ESV Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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.
Romans 12:1 ESV I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Proverbs 21:3 ESV To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
John 3:16 ESV “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8 ESV But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Hosea 6:6 ESV For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hebrews 13:15 ESV Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Ephesians 5:2 ESV And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Election Quotes

Quotes About Elections / Voting
  • Everything is changing. People are taking comedians seriously and politicians as a joke. –Will Rogers
  • Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. –Chester Bowles
  • If you are not scared, you are not paying attention. - Patricia Seultz
  • Jesus began his Church as a FAMILY. It changed to an institution in Rome, a political view in Europe, & a business in America. –Rick Warren
  • Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); US politician and scientist.
  • The 7 modern sins: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, industry without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. –Canon Frederic Donaldson
  • The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. - Art Spander
  • These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
  • To succeed in politics often requires rising above your principles.
  • Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. –H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
  • What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real. Ben J. Wattenberg
  • When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN




 


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Acts 14:23 and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
2 Corinthians 8:19 and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveler, with this favor that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;
Acts 26:10 I actually did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the saints in prison, since I had received authority for that from the chief priests. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
Job 31:21 if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
Acts 26:10 And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests, I put many of the Lord’s people in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
Deuteronomy 1:13 ESV Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
Romans 13:1-14 ESV Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Unselfish Quote

 Quotes About Unselfish

  • The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. --Jessica Lange
  • The least-used words by an unselfish person are, I, me, my, and mine. --Chuck Swindoll
  • ‌The imminent return of our Lord is the great Bible argument for a pure, unselfish, devoted, unworldly, active life of service. ‌--R. A. Torrey
  • God’s love is an unselfish interest in us for our sake. --Millard J. Erickson
  • Worldly people sometimes complain with reason that “religious” persons, so-called, are not so amiable and unselfish and good-natured as others who make no profession of religion. --J. C. Ryle
  • The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. --Billy Graham
  • A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. --CHARLES DICKENS





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How Can You Value Someone Else Today? | MWM
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Inspire Those Around You = Maxwell Leadership consists of people of value, who value others and add value to others. It is a daily discipline to value and add value to the people around us. When we value others, we increase the effectiveness of the people we serve. Today, go value someone and lift their intrinsic equity so they can become better and value someone else. 


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Think Of Yourself Less = To be unselfish means to think of ourselves less. It does not mean thinking less of ourselves or being self-deprecating. When you begin living unselfishly, it can be emotionally overwhelming, but as Andy Stanley says, “Do for one what you wish you could do for anyone and everyone.” If you want to be a better servant leader, be unselfish and think of yourself less. 


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John Maxwell shares how leaders can be bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. John says that when you're bigger on the inside than the outside, over time, you become bigger on the outside.
Key takeaways:
• Inside-out leaders are inspired by others.
• The role of humility in leadership.
• The "Credibility Checklist": Are you a credible leader?



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Proverbs 22:9 (MSG) Generous hands are blessed hands because they give bread to the poor.
Ecclesiastes 11:1 (MSG) Be generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns.
Psalms 100:5 (MSG) For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever.
Proverbs 19:6 (MSG) Lots of people flock around a generous person; everyone’s a friend to the philanthropist.
Proverbs 11:24 (MSG) The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.
Philippians 2:4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Philippians 4:5 Let your gentle spirit [your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience] be known to all people. The Lord is near.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Idol Quotes

Quotes About Idols

  • I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. --Ayrton Senna
  • For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
  • When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an 'idol,' something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, 'What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?' It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger. --Tim Keller
  • Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. --Albert Einstein






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Revelation 21:8 But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death. ”
Exodus 20:4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. 
1 Corinthians 8:10 For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?
Luke 16:13 ESV No servant 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.”
Matthew 4:10 ESV Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”
Colossians 3:5 ESV Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Billy Graham Quotes

Quotes by Billy Graham 



Born: November 7, 1918, Charlotte, NC (Today is his birthday)
Died: February 21, 2018, Montreat, NC

  • “A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”
  • “A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
  • “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”
  • “Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.”
  • “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
  • “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
  • “Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.”
  • “God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”
  • “God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.”
  • “God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you."”
  • “God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.”
  • “God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.”
  • “I just want to lobby for God.”
  • “If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
  • “If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”
  • “It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.”
  • “I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.”
  • “Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
  • “My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
  • “My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.”
  • “Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”
  • “Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”
  • “Only those who want everything done for them are bored.”
  • “Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.”
  • “Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.”
  • “Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?”
  • “Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
  • “The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”
  • “The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
  • “The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.”
  • “The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.”
  • “The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.”
  • “The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”
  • “The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”
  • “There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.”
  • “We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.”
  • “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
  • “You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”



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Friday, September 09, 2022

Authenticity Quotes

Quotes About Authenticity / Genuine

  • Authenticity is being what you seem and saying what you mean.
  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. --Judy Garland
  • Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust. --Lance Secretan
  • Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. --Allan Bloom, American Philosopher (1930-1992)
  • Authentic faith cannot help but act. --Beth Moore
  • Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. --Mother Teresa
  • We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties. --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  



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Be Real And Honest = John Maxwell’s new book, High Road Leadership, discusses how high road leaders set themselves apart from people who travel the middle or low road. High road leaders are able to embrace authenticity. They admit mistakes, apologize, and are real and honest with others. Authenticity doesn't guarantee success, but lack of authenticity does guarantee failure.  
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Be Real, Be honest, Be You = Being authentic doesn’t guarantee success, but if you lack authenticity it does guarantee failure. Authentic leaders—those who are real, honest, vulnerable, and open—foster confidence, and a sense of security and safety in those they lead. This is because others know that they understand who they are and are comfortable in their own skin. Authenticity is being the very best person you can be, while also being yourself. 

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Hebrews 2:2 For if the message given through angels [the Law given to Moses] was authentic and unalterable, and every violation and disobedient act received an appropriate penalty,
John 1:9 There it was—the true Light [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] which, coming into the world, enlightens everyone.
James 1:12 Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
John 4:24 ESV God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Proverbs 3:26 ESV For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
Proverbs 24:26 (NIV) An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Proverbs 21:29 NIV The wicked put up a bold front, but the upright give thought to their ways.
Philippians 4:8 (NIV) Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Yes Quotes

Quotes About Yes

  • My favorite word? "Yes" 
  • When you say "Yes" to others, make sure you are not saying "No" to Jesus.
  • As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!



 


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John 4:23 But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.
John 21:15 When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”“Feed My lambs,” He told him.
Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
James 5:12 ESV But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Psalms 41:13 (MSG) Blessed is God , Israel’s God,,always, always, always.,Yes. Yes. Yes.
Matthew 5:33-37 ESV “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Addiction Quotes

Quotes About Addictions

  • All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.  W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), A Certain World (1970).
  • As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.  Henry Van Dyke, author (1852-1933).
  • Every clinging addiction I ever had came from a vain attempt to 'fill my cup' with something other than the Spirit of Christ.  Mark Wylie, Young Adult Minister for the University Church of Christ in Denver, CO.
  • For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.  Peter McWilliams.
  • He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, pastor and theologian (1906-1945), Life Together.
  • I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.  Chuck Palahniuk, Satirist, novelist, b. 1961.
  • I can resist everything except temptation.  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
  • If you don't play, you can't win. Connecticut Lottery advertisement, paid for by politicians with dollar signs in their eyes.
  • In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves; the prisoner of addiction and the prisoners of envy.  Ivan Illich (b. 1926), Austrian born American educator and priest.
  • Men of intemperate mind never can be free. Their passions forge their fetters.  Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman.
  • Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.  François duc de la Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French philosopher.
  • Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid (43 BC - AD 18).
  • O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
  • People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.  Ann Landers.
  • Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.  John W. Gardner, b. 1912, American Educator.
  • Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Jurist (1841 -1935).
  • Sin never fulfills its promises. It will take you farther than you wanted to go, keep you longer than you wanted to stay, and make you pay more than you could ever afford.  Ken Davis, from Lighten Up.
  • The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.  Thomas Carlyle, 19th-century Scots-English historian, author (1795-1881); Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, (1840).
  • The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.  Yiddish Proverb.
  • There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.  William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology (1890).
  • Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, And makes a chimney of your nose. Benjamin Waterhouse, medical doctor (1754 - 1846).
  • Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.  Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (1848-1908).
  • Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?  Clifford Stoll.
  • You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.  David Ryan.
  • As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. --MAYA ANGELOU





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1 Timothy 3:3, 8 NASB95 - 3 not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. ... 8 Deacons likewise [must be] men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain,
Titus 1:7 NASB95 - 7 For the overseer must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,

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