Inspirational Quotes

We can all be inspired by some favourite quotes. We chose those classics which will hit the spot over and over again. Hope you enjoy and tap into its wisdom for inner strength and peace.

What Is Life?
To Risk
The Dancing Footprints
The Art of Marriage
A Garden of Greens
Prayer of Serenity
Friends and Fence

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What is life?

Life is a challenge ... meet it.
Life is a gift ... accept it.
Life is an adventure ... dare it.
Life is a sorrow ... overcome it.
Life is a tragedy ... face it.
Life is a duty ... perform it.
Life is a game ... play it.
Life is a mystery ... unfold it.
Life is a song ... sing it.
Life is an opportunity ... take it.
Life is a journey ... complete it.
Life is a promise ... fulfill it.
Life is a beauty ... praise it.
Life is a struggle ...fight it
Life is a goal ... achieve it.
Life is a puzzle ... solve it.
Life is a Love ... love it.

To Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose your true feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas, your dreams, before others is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk dispair
To try is to risk failure

BUT... RISK MUST BE TAKEN

Because the greatest hazzard in life is to risk nothing
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot
learn, grow, feed, change, love and live
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave
he has forfeited his freedom

Only a person who risks...
is truely FREE!

Footprint Alias

Now imagine you and the Lord Jesus walking down the road together. For much of the way, the Lord's footprints go along steadily, consistently, rarely varying the pace. But your prints are a disorganized stream of zigzags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures and returns. For much of the way it seems to go like this.

But gradually, your footprints come more in line with the Lord's, soon paralleling His consistently. You and Jesus are walking as true friends. This seems perfect, but then an interesting thing happens: your footprints that once etched the sand next to the Master's are now walking precisely in His steps. Inside His larger footprints is the small 'sandprint', safely enclosed. You and Jesus are becoming one. This goes on for many miles.

But gradually you notice another change. The footprint inside the larger footprint seems to grow larger. Eventually it disappears altogether. There is only one set of footprints. They have become one. Again, this goes on for a long time.

But then something awful happens. The second set of footprints is back. And this time it seems even worse. Zigzags all over the place. Stops. Starts. Deep gashes in the sand. A veritable mess of prints. You're amazed and shocked. But this is the end of your dream.

Now you speak. "Lord, I understand the first scene with the zigzags and fits and starts and so on. I was a new Christian, just learning. But You walked on through the storm and helped me learn to walk with you."

"That is correct."

"Yes, and when the smaller footprints were inside of Yours, I was actually learning to walk in Your steps. I followed You very closely."

"Very good. You have understood everything so far."

"Then the smaller footprints grew and eventually filled in with Yours. I suppose that I was actually growing so much that I was becoming like you in every way."

"Precisely."

"But this is my question. Lord. Was there a regression or something? The footprints went back to two, and this time it was worse than the first."

The Lord smiles, then laughs. "You didn't know?" He says. "That's when we danced."

Isaiah 40:30-31 "Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint."

Isaiah 41:10 "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

The Art of Marriage

A good marriage must be created.
In the art of marriage the little things are the big things...
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say, "I love you", at least once each day.
It is never going to sleep angry.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives:
     It is standing together facing the world.
      It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
     It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in
          thoughtful ways.
     It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
     It is in giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.
     It is finding room for the things of the spirit.
     It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.
It is not only marrying the right partner,
It is being the right partner.

A Garden of Greens

Try this type of planting which will produce a wonderful garden:-

PLANT three rows of squash:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash criticism
3. Squash indifference

PLANT three rows of peas:
1. Purity
2. Patience
3. Perseverance

PLANT six rows of lettuce:

1. Let us be unselfish and loyal
2. Let us be faithful to duty
3. Let us search the scriptures
4. Let us not be weary in well-doing
5. Let us be obedient in all things
6. Let us Love one another

NO GARDEN is complete without turnips:

1. Turn up for meetings, in prayer, and Bible study
2. Turn up with a smile, even when things are difficult
3. Turn up with determination to do your best in His service

After planting, may you "Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Father" II Peter 3:18.
And may you reap rich results.

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The Prayer of Serenity

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change...
the courage to change
the things I can...
the wisdom to know
the difference

Friends and fence

There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father told the boy to pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us.