Thursday, July 25, 2024

 For last year's words belong to last year's language

 And next year's words await another voice.
 And to make an end is to make a beginning.--T. S. Eliot ("Little Gidding") 

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.--Henry S. Hoskins 

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.--John Heywood 

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.--Horace 

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.--Harry Emerson Fosdick 

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.--Annie Dillard 

I'm in a very enviable position, being able to work like this forty-five years later. It's always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, they're going to carry me off a stage.--Angela Lansbury 

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” - John Piper

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile" - Max Lucado

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” - Corrie Ten Boom

Christ literally walked in our shoes." - Tim Keller

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us." - Billy Graham

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them." -  Elisabeth Elliot

10. "God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go." - Tony Evans

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll

If you can’t fly, then run, If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."  - Tony Evans

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" - D.L. Moody

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read." - John MacArthur

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."  - Eleanor Roosevelt

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.--General Omar Bradley 

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.--Thucydides 

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.--John Bradshaw 

"Come to the edge," He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.--Guillaume Apollinaire 

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where won man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.--Clarence Darrow 

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies 


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