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Unknown

“If you do a small thing as if it were a great thing, God will let you do the great thing as if it were a small thing”.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

”In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away”.

Unknown

“Luck is the residue of design” (worth pondering).

Haddon Robinson

“The Bible does not provide a map for life – only a compass”.

Alexander Maclaren

“We cannot hate a man if we pray for him; we cannot pray for him if we hate him”.

“The sum of religion is to imitate the God whom we worship”.

New Mexico, around 1848 (cowboy saying):

“You get so dry you have to be primed to spit”.

Texas:

“… the northern panhandle of Texas … way up on the wild and windy plains, 3600 feet high, flat as a floor, bald as an eight ball, with nothin’ in the world to stop that North Wind but a barb wire fence about a hundred miles north, and all of them barbs are turned the same way … where the oil flows, the wheat grows, the dust blows, and the farmer owes”.

Trials

“God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial” (Spurgeon).

Freedom

Freedom is life controlled by truth and motivated by love (W. Wiersbe).

Gifts/Character

In his book The Next Generation Leader, Andy Stanley said, “Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you.”

Love/Heaven
“Heaven is free because love is free” (Peter Kreeft).

Faith/Works
“The primacy of faith does not discount or denigrate works, but liberate them. Our good works can now also be free – free from the worry and slavery and performance anxiety of having to buy heaven with them. Our good works can now flow from genuine love of neighbor, not from fear of hell” (Peter Kreeft).

Purity
“Purity of heart is to will one thing” (Soren Kierkegaard).