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“There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less.” Philip Yancey

We hurt people by being too busy.  Too busy to notice their needs.  Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love.  Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk.  Too busy to care.

Billy Graham

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. ~Thomas Fuller

Laugh at your mistakes and praise yourself for learning from them

God’s never been guilty of sponsoring a flop.

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

“Our prayers will see answers when we believe in what we ask for.” John Iverson

The first wealth is health

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

There is no impact without contact. Evangelism is a contact sport.

Douglas M. Cecil

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Seneca

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

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

“Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.” C. S. Lewis

You are not finished when you lose. You are finished when you quit.

Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back

We have a God who says He will be our God and
our Guide to the end – not just halfway through — but to the end.

“I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.”

“Did people build this, or did Indians?”

Tourist question at Mesa Verde National Park

“My appetite is so good that I can eat the tablecloth right off the chair.”

Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts representative

“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

“Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.”

Yogi Berra, Baseball player

“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

“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

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

“Mr. Milosevic has to be careful. The calendar is ticking.”

Richard Haas, NBC News consultant

“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.”

Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

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

Associated Press

“Facts are stupid things.”

Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President

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

Al Gore

“Well, that was a cliff-dweller.”

Wes Westrum, Baseball coach, about a close game

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

Thomas Wells, Ontario legislature minister

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

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”

Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

“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