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Opportunities are like sunrises –  if you wait too long, you miss them.

“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G. K. Chesterton

The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

It is the heart
always that sees before the head can see

“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 

Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back

“Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.” John of the Cross

Remember, you are the only one who can keep you from becoming the person God wants you to be.

Neil Anderson

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The hardest thing for us as humans to do is believe that God can take care of everything WITHOUT our help.

Don’t let the limits of your imagination block you from what God can do for you.

Big victories need big heart, great courage, great foresee and solid determination.

The Christian finds safety not in the absence of danger but in the presence of God.

Joy comes from using your potential

“Before anything else, above all else, beyond everything else, God loves us. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition.”

Roberta Bondi

“We often tend to treat the Lord Jesus something like a convenience food — handy to have around in case of unexpected need.”

The Lord who allows each of us to grieve differently also knows and provides precisely what will bring comfort to our hearts.

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

Dan Quayle

“That’s just the tip of the ice cube.”

Neil Hamilton, BBC2

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Henny Youngman

“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”

Stuart Pearce

“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

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

Peter Snow, BBC2 anchorman

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

“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

“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.

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet”

Al Gore

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

Tanith Lee

Oh – I’m so sorry, I didn’t recognize you without your…

Lady Diana Cooper to Queen Elizabet

“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.

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

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

“Wonderful bargains for men with 16 and 17 necks.”

Sign in Men’s clothing store

I do not like this word “bomb.” It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

Jacques le Blanc

Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant.

“Elephants Please Stay In Your Car.”

Safari park sign

“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