I Need More Hellos [Snoopy]

Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. (Snoopy)

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Attitude [Charles Swindoll]

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…  I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.  And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.”   © Charles Swindoll

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Sanctification [Oswald Chambers]

“Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; Sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.”   — © Oswald Chambers @My Utmost For His Highest

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Let your memory be your travel bag [Alexander Solzhenitsyn]

“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” © Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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A prayer written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (in prison)

O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you, I cannot do it alone. In me it is dark, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not desert me; My courage fails me, but with you there is help; I am restless, but with you there is peace; in me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience; I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me. Father in Heaven praise and thanks be to you for the night’s rest, Praise and thanks be to you for the new day. Praise and thanks be to you for all your loving-kindness and faithfulness in my past life. You have shown me so much goodness; let me also accept what is hard to bear from your hand. You will not lay a heavier burden on me than I can carry. You make all things serve for the best for your children. Lord, whatever this day brings, your name be praised. © Dietrich Bonhoeffer – prayer written in Tegel prison, Berlin

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He that is good for making excuses [Benjamin Franklin]

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. © Benjamin Franklin

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A different kind of woman [Elisabeth Elliot]

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God’s idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to Him of all that I am and all that He wants me to be.  © Elisabeth Elliot

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Saudade de Valores – [Rui Barbosa]

“Eu tenho saudade do que não vivi. Tenho saudade de lugares onde não fui e de pessoas que não conheci.  Tenho saudade de uma época que não vivenciei, lembranças de um tempo que mesmo sem fazer parte do meu passado,  marcou presença e deixou legado.  Esse tempo, onde a palavra valia mais do que um contrato, onde a decência era reconhecida pelo olhar,  onde as pessoas não tinham vergonha da honestidade, onde a justiça cega não se vendia nem esmolava,  onde rir não era apenas um direito do rei…”  © Rui Barbosa

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of … – (© Corrie Ten Boom)

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. © Corrie Ten Boom

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Salvation

“Fourfold salvation: saved from the penalty, power, presence and most importantly the pleasure of sin.” © A.W. Pink

“The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.” © Seneca

“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.”  © Thomas Aquinas

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