 Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit. Author: Ravi Zacharias |
| Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded. Author: T.D. Jakes |
| The greater the battle--the greater the spoils. Author: T.D. Jakes |
| You got a devil to fight. If you got to walk around with your eyes closed--go ahead and do it--cause you got a devil to fight. If you got to be lonely and stay by yourself--go ahead and do it--you got.... Author: T.D. Jakes |
| You went down so that you can come up, you cried so that you can rejoice, you mourned so that you can dance, you did without so that you can overcome, you want to tell every devil in hell. Somebody holler the fight is on. Author: T.D. Jakes |
| The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. Author: Vance Havner |
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| Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed? Author: Max Lucado |
| "I will" is no word for man. There is a far diviner one, "I ought." Bow passion to reason, reason to conscience, and conscience to God, and then be as resolute and determined as you choose. Author: Alexander MacLaren |
| In many things a comprehensive survey of a subject is the shortest way of getting at a precise knowledge of a particular division of it. Author: Charles Hodge |
| When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer. Author: Richard Sibbes |
| Do everything in its own time; do everything in earnest; if it is worth doing, then do it with all your might. Above all, keep much in the presence of God. Never see the face of man until you have seen his face, who is our light, our all. Author: Robert Murray McCheyne |
| Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success. Author: William Wilberforce |
