Spiritual Thoughts

IF you can't fly, then run;  IF you can't run, then walk;    IF you can't walk, then crawl; BUT whatever you do,      you have to keep moving forward. -Martin Luther King Jr.  BUT one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind  and straining forward to what lies ahead,   I press toward the mark of the prize of the     high calling of God in Christ Jesus.   -Philippians 3:13-14 

O ther people and other things can stop you temporarily.  You are the only one who can do it permanently. -Zig Ziglar  F or in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor  uncircumcision counts for anything,   BUT only FAITH working through LOVE.     You were running well.  Who hindered you from obeying the Truth? -Galatians 5:6-7 

A ll true service is God's service when     we do the best we can. We never know what miracle is wrought     in our own life or the life of another. -Helen Keller S o we....are one body in Christ.....having gifts   that differ according to the grace given to us,     let us use them:....if service, in our serving;        the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.  -Romans 12:5-8 

IF we had no winter,   the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,   prosperity would not be so welcome. -Anne Bradstreet BUT when he came to himself, he said,  "How many of my father's hired servants have more than     enough bread, BUT I perish here with hunger!    I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him,    'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.' " BUT the father said to his servants,  'For this my son was dead, and is alive again;    he was lost and is found.'    And they began to celebrate.  -Luke 15:17, 18, 24 

T he only disability in life     is a bad attitude. -Scott Hamilton  S how a gentle attitude toward everyone.      The Lord is coming soon.  -Philippians 4:5 

T he seasons do not push one another;  neither do clouds race the wind across the sky.    All things happen in their own good time. -Dan Millman F or everything there is a season, and   a time for every matter under heaven:    a time to be born, and a time to die;     a time to plant, and a time to pluck up       what is planted....                    a time for peace...  -Ecclesiastes 3:1-8