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(Ray Stedman) When all the worthless products of human endeavor have crumbled into the dust,when all the institutions and organizations we have built have long been forgotten, the temple that God built- His Church-will be the center of attention through all eternity

(Rogers) Grace says, I love you",  reaching down;
               Faith says, " I believe you", reaching up

(Swindoll) My mother told me there would be days like this but she never told me they would run in packs

(Swindoll) A sense of humor is of paramount importance to a leader.Many of God's servants are simply too serious

(Swindoll) Friendship is not threatened but strengthened  by honest criticism

(Swindoll) The river of love must be kept within the banks,Truth on one side, discernment on the other

(Swindoll) God allows suffering so that we might have the capacity to enter into others sorrows and affliction

(Swindoll) How unfinished and rebellious and proud and unconcerned we would be without sufferings

(Swindoll) Christ  met us as we were, not as  we "ought to be". Is that how we meet people?

(George MacLeod) Christ was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles but on a cross between two thieves

(anon) Shared joy is a double joy;shared sorrow is half a sorrow

(Swindoll) God's Word, like a deep,deep mine, stands ready to yield its treasures

(The Message paraphrase of Mt. 5:44) Let your  enemies bring out the best in you

(Anon) People who are all wrapped up in themselves make a very small package

(Rogers) You can't be right with God and wrong with a brother

(Joe Stowell) Dying to self is life at its best

(Swindoll of his father) I do not recall his overt declaration of love as clearly as I do his demonstration of it

(Swindoll on the life and death of his father) He leaves in his legacy a well-marked Bible I treasure, a series of feelings that I need to deepen my roots, and a thousand memories that comfort me as I replace denial with acceptance.

(Swindoll) God is the One who builds temples from the scrap pile

(Swindoll) God sure gets blamed for a lot of stuff He has nothing to do with

(Swindoll) Sometimes it helps to remember what God calls us during our short stint on planet Earth- strangers and pilgrims

(Swindoll) Thoughts form the thermostat which regulates what we accomplish in life.We become what we think about. Our performance is directly related to thoughts we deposit in our memory bank. We can only draw on what we deposit

(Swindoll) A frog strangler is east Texan for a rain storm

(Swindoll) I'm convinced that by the time I got out of high school, I'd gone through five, maybe six guardian angels

(Swindoll) In general, the more conservative we become, the less compassionate we become. I want to know why it has to be either/or ? Why can't it be both?

(Swindoll) Do you really believe that no problem is beyond His power?

(Rogers) When God says no, it's because He has something better in store for you.

(Rogers) When God says, " Thou shalt not" He is really saying " Don't hurt yourself".

(Swindoll) Tact graces life like a fragrance graces a rose.Tact is incessantly appropriate,invariably attractive, immeasurably appealing, but rare... oh, so rare!

(C. Stanley) Inappropriate compromise is costly, it corrupts, and it brings collapse

(Swindoll) Surveys  have shown that  one half of college graduates never read another complete book after graduation

John D Rockefeller, when asked how much  money it would take to satisfy a man, replied, "  a little more than he has"

(Swindoll)Contentment means that things don't possess me

(Swindoll) The most effective retaliation is an absence of retaliation