Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. – Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Every path has a puddle. – George Herbert
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. – Benjamin Franklin
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. – Corrie ten Boom
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust (courtesy of Get It Done Guy)
Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz, courtesy of Get It Done Guy
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. (Psalm 149:4 ESV)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. – Thomas Edison
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant
There are many Ph.D.’s who choke in their spiritual immaturity on the things of God. And there are many less–educated saints who can feed with pleasure and profit on the deepest things of God. – John Piper
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
The Psalms are songs and poems, and songs and poems exist because something more should happen to us than doctrinal refinement. – John Piper
Seven hundred years before Good Friday God announced why his Son was being put to death. (Isaiah 53:10–12) – John Piper
April 1. Happy Psalm 14 day. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. – Bruce Lee
The biggest problem in the world is us exchanging God's glory for images, especially the one in the mirror. – John Piper
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard
Always desire to learn something useful. – Sophocles
Men and women hide the candle that God has lit under the bushel of business and domestic cares. – Spurgeon
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
When we pray, nothing never happens. – Tom Steller
The mark of consumer culture is the reduction of 'being' to 'having.' – John Piper
One of the primary purposes of being shaken by suffering is to make our faith more unshakable. – John Piper
To be holy is to be wholly God's. – Tim Keller
Love reproves faults but does not desert him who falls. – Martin Luther
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Arthur Baldwin
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. – Babe Ruth
The message that secular leaders hear from the church's worship is that Jesus is Lord, not Caesar. – Doug Wilson
Whatever is the latest thing too easily becomes the surrogate for discipleship. – Crawford Loritts
God takes us from where we are, not from where we should have been. – Doug Wilson
How people treat you should never define you. It's not what people call you, but what you answer to. – Crawford Loritts
You don't produce the fruit of the Spirit. It is the fruit OF the Spirit. – Crawford Loritts
Repent of wallowing in our self pity and deifying our disfunction. Yield to God. Believe him. – Crawford Loritts at the Desiring God Pastor's Conference
Men are God's method. – E. M. Bounds
God is not disinclined to do you good. He is a Father, not a mortgage holder. – John Piper
Praise will abound to God in greater measure because he has brought his people through struggles to perfect victory in the end. – John Piper
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. – J. I. Packer
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. – A. A. Milne
Our time will surely go down in history, at least as far as the West is concerned, as the age of the God-shrinkers. – J. I. Packer
