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There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them.

It is a positive crime to be weak in God’s strength.

What isn’t won
in prayer first, is never won at all.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. ~Bunyan, John

“The tasks connected with the home are the fundamental tasks of humanity.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Receive each day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.”

William Law

“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Samuel Johnson

“What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.” Meister Eckhart

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes; we count on God’s love for our present needs; but we count on God’s sovereignty for the future.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.

Keep yourself as a pilgrim and a stranger here in this world, as one to whom the world’s business counts but little. Keep your heart free, and always lift it up to God.

Thomas à Kempis

If you want to stand high, think high.

“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

The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. ~Spurgeon, C. H.

“The most glorious promises of God are generally fulfilled in such a wondrous manner that He steps forth to save us at a time when there is the least appearance of it.” C. H. von Bogatzy

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

“Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.”

Yogi Berra, Baseball player

“I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

No audience will ever be able to take more than ten minutes of animation…

“The FA are still optimistic about England’s bid to stage the World Cup in twenty thousand and six.”

Peter Snow, BBC2 anchorman

“My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.”

Spike Milligan

“The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others.”

Gerry Brown

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails

Associated Press

“Man thought hurt, but slightly dead.”

Providence Journal Headline

“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 throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”

Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

A friend is someone who’s there when he needs you

Anon

“I’ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right”

Marlon Starling

“And as Mansell comes into the pits, he’s quite literally sweating his eyeballs out.”

UK Sports coverage on TV

“I said LUNCH not LAUNCH!!!!”

Nasa Launch Control

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

It is impossible to transmit speech electrically. The ‘telephone’ is as mythical as the unicorn.
Professor Johann Christian Poggendorrf, Germany physicist and chemist, 1860

“Do Not Place Hand In Fan While Fan Is Running.”

Warning label on central air conditioning unit

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

Dick Cavett

“MIDNIGHT BOWLING SATURDAY AT 9 P.M.”

Sign outside bowling alley

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle, U.S. Vice President