Lives Quotes
God doesn't always give us a blueprint for our lives, but he always gives us a next step.
We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
It was something that we learned more and more about as we got older in different chapters of our lives on how important the victory was, not as a sporting event but as a victory in the Cold War.
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.
If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.
Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.
For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.
By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.
But if we see ourselves as connected to God, or as reconnecting to our Source through meditation, then we can attract anything we want into our lives.
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.
When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
The meaning, purpose, and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes, in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.
People come in and out of our lives to teach us. And we teach other people. It's part of the process. They come in and they go out. Some stay for longer than others.
For the provision of God constantly to be at work in our lives we must activate the laws of God.
The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.
One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.
God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.
Worry implies that we don't quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives.
Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.
We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.