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

 Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis 

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler 

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn 

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson 

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis 

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman 

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller 

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.--Joseph Addison 

The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.--Sarah Orne Jewett 

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.--James Howell ("French" Paroimiographia) 

Hold a true friend with both hands.--Nigerian proverb

 Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.--Dale E. Turner 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.--Henry David Thoreau 

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.-Robert Conklin 

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.--Josie Bisset 

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.--Sir James M. Barrie 

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.--Steven Callahan 

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.--Roger Von Oech 

Empower your dreams with deadlines.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999) 

Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.--Douglas Pagels 

Every dreamer works in violent disagreement with their times.--Conway Stone 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.--Harriet Tubman 

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris

 Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook) 

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion 

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham 

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker 

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create) 

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001) 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon 

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim 

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.--Mark Twain 

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores 

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle 

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979) 

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou 

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Lindquist

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

t will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” – George Eliot

No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.” – Alice Sebold

 Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” – Stephen Covey

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.” – Eckhart Tolle

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.” – Rumi

Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” ~ John Wooden

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” ~ Pamela Vaull Starr

. “No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.”  ~ Wolfgang Riebe

“Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.”  ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” ~ Alice Munro

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.” — Jerry Dunn

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” —Tommy Lasorda

“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger seven-time Mr. Olympia

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” —Steve Prefontaine

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” —Jerry Rice

“What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow.”— Jay Cutler, pro bodybuilder and four-time Mr. Olympia

If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.”— Bret Contreras, sports scientist

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” ~ St. Jerome

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller 

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan

 Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.” – Joel Osteen

“Life’s too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can’t please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.” – Joel Osteen

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, ‘This sickness can’t take my life. This cancer can’t defeat me. No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.'” – Joel Osteen

Don’t get upset when there’s a detour on the way to your destiny. Keep a good attitude and it will all work out.” – Joel Osteen

You can change your world by changing your words. Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” – Joel Osteen

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.” – Joel Osteen

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.” – Joel Osteen

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.'” – Joel Osteen

Too often we get frustrated by difficulties. But you have to realize, you can’t have a harvest without a few weeds.” – Joel Ostee

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.”

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.”

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.”

Don’t get upset when there’s a detour on the way to your destiny. Keep a good attitude and it will all work out.”

Believe there are great breaks in your future. Believe in explosive blessings. You’ve got to pray for big things. You’ve got to believe in big things.”

See every adversity, every disappointment in a new light. It’s not there to defeat you; it’s there to make you better.”

God made you a masterpiece—be blessed, secure, disciplined, and equipped.”

Difficulties are a setup for God to do something greater. Setbacks are a setup for God to move you toward your destiny.”

God is more interested in changing us than changing our circumstances. He loves you too much to let you stay where you are.”

No matter who does you wrong, you don’t have to stay defeated. Disappointments are inevitable, but misery is optional.”

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.”

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right."Billy Graham.

God has given us two hands, one to receive witha and the other to give with."Billy  Graham 

 Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.--George Washington 

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis 

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler 

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn 

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson 

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis 

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman 

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller 

 A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't.--Bern Williams 

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?--Kahlil Gibran 

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.--Aristotle 

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.--Ed Cunningham 

Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.--William Mather 

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil--but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.--Pam Brown 

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.--Swedish proverb 

 There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” – G.K. Chesterton

“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining nearby.” – Ruth E. Renkel

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude” – Oprah Winfrey

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”  ~ Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust)

“Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”  ~ George Macdonald (Scottish author, poet and Christian minister)

“A string of opinions no more constitutes faith, than a string of beads constitutes holiness.”  ~ John Wesley (Anglican cleric and Christian Theologian, co-founder of the Methodist Church)

“Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.”  ~ Anthony Farindon (Famous English Preacher)

“The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.”  ~ George Muller (English Evangelist)

“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”  ~ Charles Kingsley (English Clergyman)

“When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.”  ~ Matthew Henry (English Bible Commentator and Minister)

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”  ~ C. S. Lewis (Novelist, Lay Theologian and Christian Apologist)

“Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.”  ~ A. A. Hodge (Leader in the American Presbyterian Church)

“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”  ~ A. B. Simpson (Founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance)

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”  ~ A. C. Dixon (Pastor, Bible Expositor and Evangelist)

“There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.”  ~ A. J. Gossip (Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology)

“By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.” ~ A. T. Pierson (American Presbyterian Pastor)

“The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.”  ~ A. W. Tozer (American Preacher and Author)

“Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.”  ~ Abraham Kuyper (Dutch Theologian)

It’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.” ~ Joyce Meyer

“The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.” ~ A.W. Tozer

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood become a matter of life and death to you.” ~ C. S. Lewis

The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.” ~ A.W. Pink