Spiritual Thoughts

  Love  is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made . ~ Daren L. Johnson L et us not love with just word or with tongue,  but  in deed and truth. ~ 1 John 3:18

O ur daily decisions create the scrapbook of our lives. ~ Mary Ann Radmacher   L et us consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds, not abandoning meeting together, as is the habit of some people, BUT encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. ~ Hebrews 10:24-25

L ife is all about the little decisions you make every day.  You cannot change the decisions of the past, BUT every new day is another opportunity to make the right ones. ~ Unknown   I f any of you lacks wisdom to guide him through a decision or circumstances, he is to ask of God, who gives to everyone generously and without rebuke or blame, and it will be given to him. ~ James 1:5

  Friday Tale - Making Decisions   W illiam McKinley, the 25 th U.S. president, once had to choose between two equally qualified men for a key job. He puzzled over the choice until he remembered a long-ago incident.       On a rainy night, McKinley had boarded a crowded streetcar. One of the men he was now considering had also been aboard, though he did not see McKinley. Then an old woman carrying a big basket of laundry struggled into the car, looking in vain for a seat. The job candidate pretended not to see her and kept his seat. McKinley gave up his seat to help her.       Remembering this episode, which he called “this little omission of kindness,” McKinley decided against the man on the streetcar. Our decisions – even the small, fleeting ones – tell a lot about our true character . ~ Adapted from Presidential Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller, Jr . "H is master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servan...

  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. ~ Stephen Covey   A nd let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing. ~ James 1:4

I t is not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~ Roy Disney     F ollow the pattern of the sound words you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. ~ 2 Timothy 1:13

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions           because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap;           you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right. Theodore Hesburgh So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." John 6:67-69

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. Jim Rohn I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot.            Would that you were either cold or hot! Behold, I stand at the door and knock.             If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:15, 20