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    What you should decide is how you are valuable, rather than how valuable you are.


    Adam and Eve were the first to learn that there is no free lunch.


    We are seldom more than we consider ourselves to be.


    If you add to the truth, you lessen it.


    When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
    Matthew 4:4
     
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    If God tells you to go fishing for Moby duck, take the tartar sauce with you.

    A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

    Democracy doesn’t guarantee equality, only equality of opportunity.

    People speak of how much things cost, but perhaps they would get a truer picture if they thought of time. That is, you pay for things with time. “In ten years we’ll have enough put away to buy that vacation home we want etc. Then I’ll slow down.” That means the home will cost you ten years, not x dollars. What per cent of your adult life is that? Translate the dollar value of the house, car or anything else into time and then see if it is worth it. Sometimes you can’t do what you want and have what you want at once (today’s newlyweds should read this) because each requires a different expenditure of time. The phrase, “spending your time,” is not a metaphor, it’s how life works.
     
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    This right here is wisdom at its finest. I'm trying to get myself to think in these terms. Well said Backwoods Savage!
     
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    Thanks Marvin. I started living by this many moons ago as it just makes sense. I think Thoreau also spoke of this but put it in terms of how much life do you have to give to buy whatever.
     
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    By Rev Billy Graham...

    A Thousand Anxieties
    Man has always been beset by worry, and the pressures of modern life have aggravated the problem. To men of all time Jesus said, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow . . . but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33–34). Many of you are filled with a thousand anxieties. Bring them to Jesus Christ by faith. He will bring peace to your soul and your mind.

    Daily Prayer
    Knowing You hear me, Lord, as I talk with You brings me peace in the midst of any storm.
     
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    I sought the Lord , and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.
    Psalms 34:4 NKJV
     
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    Verse of the Day
    Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
    1 John 2:6
     
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    Verse of the Day
    But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
    Luke 6:35
     
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    “I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but now I see I should have been more specific.” Lily Tomlin

    Two things you should never watch being made; sausage and laws.

    If you don’t know where you are going, you might end up someplace else.

    Vision is the art of seeing invisible things.


    Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
    1 John 4:15
     
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    Philosophy is nothing but the love of wisdom.

    A proverb is a short sentence drawn from long experience.

    The road is always better than the inn.

    Greatness is denied to the stupid.

    If builders built buildings the way some people build computer programs, the first woodpecker that came along would have all of us back into caves.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
    2 Corinthians 5:17
     
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    When the mouth stumbles, it’s worse than the foot stumbling.

    A man who never leaves home learns nothing.

    You can’t teach what you don’t know.

    Success is a marathon, not a sprint.
     
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    By Rev Billy Graham...

    Throne     of Grace
    Praying is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. Thousands of people pray only when they are under great stress, or in danger, overcome by uncertainty. I have been in airplanes when an engine died; then people started praying. I have talked to soldiers who told me that they never prayed until they were in the midst of battle. There seems to be an instinct in man to pray in times of trouble. We know “there are no atheists in foxholes,” but the kind of Christianity that fails to reach into our everyday lives will never change the world. Develop the power of prayer. Man is more powerful when he is in prayer than when he is behind the most powerful guns. A nation is more powerful when it unites in earnest prayer to God than when its resources are channeled into defensive weapons. The answers to all our problems can be had through contact with almighty God.

    Daily Prayer
    My time spent in prayer with You, dear Lord, is the highlight of my day. To know You are waiting to have this communion humbles me. Yet You say I can come boldly—this I do now, knowing You hear me!
     
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    Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
    Hebrews 4:16 NIV
     
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    Verse of the Day
    See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
    Isaiah 43:19
     
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    Wouldn’t it be a blessing if we could open and shut our ears like we can our eyes?

    It is the special genius of Congress to seize an idea whose time has come and sit on it until it’s time has gone.

    Money talks, but credit echoes.

    In baseball, as in life, many batters are strike-out victims. One of the saddest scenes is a batter who gets struck-out without ever swinging the bat. Remember, you miss 100% of the swings that you never take.

    One of the biggest differences between a problem and a solution is that people usually understand the solution.
     
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    Verse of the Day
    Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
    Hebrews 13:5
     
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    Poverty is no disgrace, but it is rather inconvenient.

    They say it’s lonely at the top, but the extra space sure is nice and the view is better too.

    Be ready to run with the big dogs or stay on the porch.

    Experience is a good teacher and there are far too many in class that are not doing too well.

    All who are poor are not ignorant, but all who are ignorant are poor.
     
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