Spiritual Thoughts

W hen you make a mistake, don't look back at long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. ~ Mary Pickford L earn to do good.  ~ Isaiah 1:17

B lessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ~ George Eliot F or everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.  ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7

P rocrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ~ Don Marquis B esides this, you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.  ~ Romans 13:11

L ife always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath . ~ Charlotte Joko Beck C ount it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.  ~ James 1:2-3

Friday Tale: L ife hangs by a thread. A simple snap and we're dead. All of our money, fortune and fame, That same little thread holds it again. We think we are secure in the strength of our might, When we have not the power to even last the night. Our fate and our destiny is guided for sure By the One who gave the rules, we make the detour. If only we realize it is not by our wits, That we survive, even prosper, it is because He permits. It's only a thread that holds us up But a thread is like steel, when we've drank from the cup. The cup of life made available to all Hanging by a thread, yet secured from a fall. ~ A Mountain Wings Original B ecause you have the Lord your dwelling place - the Most High, who is my refuge - no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.  ~ Psalm 17:5

T he elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs.... one step at a time. ~ Joe Girard   M y steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.  ~ Psalm 17:5

H ave the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal, regardless of circumstances, or whatever other people say, think, or do. ~ Paul Meyer B ut one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  ~ Philippians 3:13-14

O nly by letting go of what stops us from growing can we put down new roots and truly flower. ~ Peg Streep B lessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.... He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green..... for it does not cease to bear fruit.  ~ Jeremiah 17:7-8

T here are no traffic jams on the extra mile. ~ Zig Ziglar A nd if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. BUT I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.  ~ Matthew 5:41, 44

L ove is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. ~ Thomas a Kempis B ut love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.  ~ Luke 6:35 

L ove should be a verb, not a noun. ~ Denis Waitley L et all that you do be done in love.  ~ 1 Corinthians 16:14

I f you would be loved: love, and be loveable. ~ Ben Franklin A bove all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. .  ~ 1 Peter 4:8

A dversity not only draws people together BUT brings forth that beautiful inward friendship, just as the cold winter forms ice figures on the window panes which the warmth of the sun effaces. ~ Soren Kierkegaard W ho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  ~ Romans 8:35, 37

L oving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. ~ Wayne Dyer I n this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.  ~ 1 John 4:9

M ay your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door! ~ Unknown A faithful man will abound with blessings. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to love Him.  ~ Proverbs 28:20 with Deuteronomy 28:2

W e look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~ William Ewart Gladstone S urely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land. Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.  ~ Psalm 85:9-10

G ratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. ~ William Arthur Ward T herefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship....  ~ Hebrews 12:28

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld F aithful are the wounds of a friend.  ~ Proverbs 27:6

T alk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems. ~ Author Unknown N ot that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.  ~ Philippians 4:11

L ove is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible. ~ Byrone Katie BUT love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be the sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.  ~ Luke 6:36-36