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To love God is something greater than to know him

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

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Van alles wat jy dra is jou uitdrukking die belangrikste.

Don’t be irreplaceable, if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted

The function of fear is to warn us of danger, not to make us afraid to face it.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

Jean Pierre de Caussade

“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple… but only God can count the apples in a seed.”

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

Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

Thomas Brooks

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

Alfred Tennyson

“But all the wickedness in the world that man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.” William Langford

“Faith enables us to move through the storms carrying our calm with us.” J. Holmes

“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” Ursula K. LeGuin

“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

“I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.” Jim Elliot

Each day comes bearing its gifts.  Untie the ribbons.

Ruth Ann Schabacher

As jy jou drome wil bewaarheid moet jy nie te lank slaap nie.

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

Thomas Wells, Ontario legislature minister

“Traffic is very heavy at the moment, so if you are thinking of leaving now, you’d better set off a few minutes earlier.”

Anonymous Traffic Report

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

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

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

Marlon Starling

“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)

“A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.”

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

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

Murray Walker, Sportcaster

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau…

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

“They are not jackbooted Nazi thugs. They are merely German policemen in spiffy uniforms here to help us.”

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

Mayor Frank Rizzo

“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

Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

Yogi Berra

“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

“Okay, everyone, now inhale… and then dehale!”

Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers captain, leading his teammates through warm-up calisthenics

“Man thought hurt, but slightly dead.”

Providence Journal Headline

“Did people build this, or did Indians?”

Tourist question at Mesa Verde National Park