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“God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.” A. W. Tozer

Surprise me, Lord, as a seed surprises itself.

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”

“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass!” Scott Nicholson

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you’re too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy.

Charles Swindoll

Christ has turned all our sunsets into dawns. ~Clement of Alexandria

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of himself.

Mother Teresa

Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer. ~Ed Cole

“The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.”

“He who waits on God never waits too long.”

Chuck Wagner

The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who got there first.

Have confidence in God’s mercy, for when you think He is a long way from you, He is often quite near. Thomas Kempis

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.” Corrie ten Boom

If a church wants a better pastor, it can get one by praying for the one it has.

Robert E. Harris

“Kneeology” will do more for prayer than theology.

Our faults are like a grain of sand beside the great mountain of the mercies of God.

When we cannot see the sunshine of God’s face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

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

Murray Walker, Sportscaster

“I deny the allegations and I defy the alligators!”

Rural Americans are real Americans. There’s no doubt about that…

Dan Quayle

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It’s only the people who make them unsafe.

Mayor Frank Rizzo

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

Donald Rumsfeld

The only reason we’re 7-0 is because we’ve won all seven of our games.

David Garcia

“We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door – the bell doesn’t work.)”

Sign on door of repair shop

We’re just physically not physical enough.

Denny Crum

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

John Wayne, Actor

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

Reason given for insurance claim.

“Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he’s pretty old. He’s thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.”

Ron Fairley, Giants broadcaster

“Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.”

Yogi Berra, Baseball player

“Except for his car, he’s the only man on the track.”

Murray Walker, Sportcaster

“Outside consultants sought for test of gas chamber.”

Ad in Arizona Republic

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

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”

Samuel Goldwyn

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

“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)

The team has come along slow but fast.

Casey Stengel