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Trying times are no time to quit trying.

It's not the absence or presence of problems that determines our peace of mind; it's the absence or presence of God.

It is more valuable to seek God's presence than to seek God's presents.

There are many things that will catch my eye, but there are only a few that catch my heart. . . it is those I consider to pursue.

  ---Tim Redmond

Do you say “our Father” on Sunday and then act like an orphan the rest of the week?

Even if you're on the right track—you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  ---Arthur Godfrey

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.

Fear and worry are interest paid in advance on something you may never own.

The best way to bring focus into your life is never to place a question mark where God has put a period.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  ---Thomas Edison

You're like a teabag--- not worth much till you've been through some hot water.

When we do what we can, God will do what we can't.

Be like the steam kettle! Though up to its neck in hot water, it continues to sing.

It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

Here is the key to being free from the stronghold of past failures and mistakes: learn the lesson and forget the details.

Unforgiveness does a great deal more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than the object on which it is poured.

Consider the postage stamp. Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to stick to something until it gets there.

  ---Josh Billings

God doesn't call us to be successful. He calls us to be faithful.

  ---Albert Hubbard

The road to success runs uphill, so don't expect to break any speed records.

Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--- not through strength but through perseverance.

The nose of the bulldog is slanted backwards so he can continue to breathe without letting go.

  ---Winston Churchill

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

  ---Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.

The measure of a person's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

Here is the key to being free from the stronghold of past failures and mistakes: learn the lesson and forget the details.

Don't grumble because you don't have what you want; to be thankful you don't get what you deserve.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

  ---Thomas Edison

A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few shovels later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take another step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off! THE MORAL: Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!

“At the turn of the twentieth century, there was an asylum in the suburbs of Boston which dealt with severely mentally retarded and disturbed individuals. One of the patients was a girl who was simply called Little Annie. She was totally unresponsive to others in the asylum. The staff tried everything they could to help her, yet without success. Finally, she was confined to a cell in the basement and given up as hopeless. But a beautiful Christian woman worked at the asylum, and she believed that every one of God's creatures needed love, concern and care. So she decided to spend her lunch hours in front of Little Annie's cell, reading to her and praying that God would free her from her prison of silence. Day after day the Christian woman came to Little Annie's door and read, but the little girl made no response. Months went by. The woman tried to talk with Little Annie, but it was like talking to an empty cell. She brought little tokens of food for the girl, but they were never received. Then one day a brownie was missing from the plate which the caring woman retrieved from Little Annie's cell. Encouraged, she continued to read to her and pray for her. Eventually the little girl began to answer the woman through the bars of her cell. Soon the woman convinced the doctors that Little Annie needed a second chance at treatment. They brought her up from the basement and continued to work with her. Within two years Little Annie was told she could leave the asylum and enjoy a normal life. But she chose not to leave. She was so grateful for the love and attention she was given by the dedicated Christian woman that she decided to stay and love others as she had been loved. So Little Annie stayed on at the institution to work with other patients who were suffering as she had suffered. Nearly half a century later, the Queen of England held a special ceremony to honor one of America 's most inspiring women, Helen Keller. When asked to what she would attribute her success at overcoming the dual handicap of blindness and deafness, Helen Keller replied, “If it hadn't been for Ann Sullivan, I wouldn't be here today.” Ann Sullivan, who tenaciously loved and believed in an incorrigible blind and deaf girl named Helen Keller, was Little Annie. Because one selfless Christian woman in the dungeon of an insane asylum believed that a hopeless little girl needed God's love, the world received the marvelous gift of Helen Keller.

  ---Neil T. Anderson ( Victory Over the Darkness . 1990)

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