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Jou gemoed werk soos ‘n valskerm ? slegs as dit oop is.

You can do everything else right as a parent, but if you don’t begin with loving God, you’re going to fail.

Alvin Vander Griend

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

“If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man’s religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.” William Barclay

“Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude.” Georges Lefevre

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow. ~Francis de Sales

Today’s sanctification produces tomorrow’s wonders.

“One day we will meet beside the river and our Lord will dry every tear. For now, we must live in the joy of that promise and recall that for every generation life is hard, but God is faithful.” Bodie Thoene

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it.  God will waste nothing.

Phillips Brooks

You yourself are the writer of your faith, write down it with your determination, will power, hard work and consistency.

Obstacles are what you see, when you take your eyes off the goal

Don’t worry about anything, pray about everything

A half-truth is a dangerous thing, especially if you have got hold of the wrong half.

A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.

God does not want us to be in continual unrest and self-reproof, but in quietness and confidence to trust Him to keep us pure and holy.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Jesus is in the boat with us, no matter how wild the storm is, and He is at peace. He commands us not to be afraid.

In an action film you act in the action, in a drama film you act in the drama.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed, and it will monitor their heart through the night, and the next morning, if they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.

Mark Fowlr

“It is thought that Raj Mohammed Poselay was beaten to death, possibly during a family fun day in the park.”

Newspaper, Wolverton Express & Star (UK)

“In a sense it’s a one-man show… except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.”

John Motson, BBC1

“We didn’t lose, we weren’t beaten, we just came in second.”

U.S. commentators, after Canadian Donavon Bailey won the 100 metre gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.

“That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.”

Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left winger, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Some people say that one’s personality is reflected off of their car… Well, I have no car.”

Anon

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

“If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”

“I don’t think we learned a lesson; I think it was a learning experience for us.”

Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player, after game 4 of the 2001 NBA finals, on being asked by NBC reporter Jim Gray if LA had learned a lesson from what happened the previous year in Indiana

"The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a good planet."

Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars.

“My appetite is so good that I can eat the tablecloth right off the chair.”

Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts representative

“SAFETY FIRST: Please put on your seat belt – prepare for accident.”

Sign on backseat of Taxi

“I didn’t know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.”

Aggie Pate, at a non-denominational mayor’s breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

“I didn’t accept it. I received it.”

Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to former President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan.

One has to expect the level of violence will either stay where it is or go up or…

Donald Rumsfeld

“Sure, it’s going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.”

Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.

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