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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

“When life caves in, you do not need reasons — you need comfort. You do not need some answers — you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation — He comes to us with His presence.” Bob Benson

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

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

Professionals built the Titanic. Amateurs built the Ark

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

“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

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings, or eating with chopsticks. It looks so easy till you try it.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.” St. Augustine of Hippo

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do

“Faith is believing in advance what can only be understood in reverse.” Chuck Swindoll

Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to.

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“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“As jou tong te skerp is kan jy dalk jou eie keel afsny”

The bow cannot be always bend without fear of breaking. Repose is as needed to the mind as sleep to the body. ~C.H. Spurgeon

When God Says “no”, it’s because He Has something better in store for you

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”

Seneca

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Henny Youngman

“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.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”

Kahlil Gibran

“A ‘No Parking’ sign at a certain location means…”

multiple choice question on NY State learner’s permit test

“Reports are sketchy, but we have heard that in the first heart transplant operation in Belgium, both patient and donor are doing fine.”

Radio news announcer

Radio has no future…

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

Sign in Men’s clothing store

“Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.”

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

Samuel Goldwyn

They misunderestimated me…

George W Bush

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Carol Malia

You guys are unique in your own way

Mia Hammond

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

“We didn’t lose, we weren’t beaten, we just came in second.”

U.S. commentators, after Canadian Donavon Bailey won the 100 metre gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.

“The largest crowd ever in the state of Las Vegas.”

Mark Jones, TV Broadcaster

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

Reason given for insurance claim.

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

David Garcia

“We are sorry to announce that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover.”

Parish Magazine

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

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.