Spiritual Thoughts

For anything worth having one must pay the price;  and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay,    but the gold of real service. -John  Burroughs  Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.  And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us,   and give himself for us as an offering and     a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma.    -Ephesians 5:1-2 

Given the inevitability of your death,    or Christ's return soon, how will you live differently today? -Anonymous This is my commandment,   that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this,     that one lay down his life for his friends.   -John 15:13 

Life is like photography.  You use the negatives to develop. -unknown The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;  the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose.    It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice      with  joy and singing.  -Isaiah 35:1-2 

Knowing is not enough, we must apply.  Willing is not enough, we must do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth  come knowledge and understanding;     then you will understand righteousness       and justice and equity, and every good path.....  -Proverbs 2:6, 9   

Ever tried?  Every failed?  No matter.  Try again. Fail again.     Try better.  Fail better.  Learn. -Samuel Beckett  Consider Him who endured from sinners   such hostility against himself, so that     you may not grow weary or faint-hearted.  -Hebrews 12:3

Failures are a part of life.   If you don't fail,  you don't learn.      If you don't learn, you'll never change. -Unknown   Like new-born infants, long for the pure   spiritual milk, that by it you may      grow up into salvation....  -1 Peter 2:2