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Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are certain moments when, whatever the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo

Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

“We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.” Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador 

“Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men.” John Chrysostom

A gossip is one who can give you all the details without knowing any of the facts.

He knows every heartache, sees every tear, a word from His lips can calm every fear.

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

You can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else’s.

The lions showed no interest in Daniel. Why should they? After all, he was nothing but backbone and gut…

“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

Decisions can take you out of God’s will but never out of His reach

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards

“One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.” Tim Hansel

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

“You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside.”

Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

Faith has been reduced to a comfortable system of beliefs about God instead of an uncomfortable encounter with God.

Michael Yaconelli

“Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church… nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence.” Susanna Wesley

“It is no small thing to be on terms of friendship with God.” Author Unknown

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.

Hillary Clinton

I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.”

Linda Evangelista, Supermodel

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

Sign on backseat of Taxi

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite”

Murray Walker, Sportscaster

“Guys aren’t able to get $15 or $20 million anymore, so you have to play for the love of the game.”

Penny Hardaway, NBA Basketball Player

“While sitting in a tavern, someone hit my nose from behind.”

Reason given for insurance claim.

“Now, the only thing that remains unresolved is the resolution of the problem.”

Thomas Wells, Ontario legislature minister

Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.

Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

“The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”

It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister…

Margaret Thatcher

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.”

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

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

“I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.”

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

“I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.”

Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.

“Mr. Milosevic has to be careful. The calendar is ticking.”

Richard Haas, NBC News consultant

I feel my best when I’m happy.

Winona Ryder

If you’re going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.