A Christian without trials would be like a mill without wind or water. What place should we have for patience, meekness, readiness to forgive, if we had nothing to try us? -John Newton
A Judge may suspend a sentence, but only God can remove our guilt.
Where death finds you, there eternity will keep you.
Someone asked an old-time preacher about which group of Christians will be taken up when Jesus returns to earth again. His eyes twinkled as he replied, "Those who are taken up with Him now."
When you have nothing left but God, then for the first time you become aware that God is enough.
A soldier said, "When I die do not sound taps over my grave, but reveille, the morning call, the summons to rise."
The frustration of God's Divine Plan is man's tragedy* Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when a person would have preferred to talk
Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy -Gretta Palmer
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. -Hawthorne
It is more important how you decide to make your decisions than the actual decisions you make. -Jack Schaap
Before beginning, prepare carefully -Cicero
If you make them happy now, you make them happy 20 years hence by the memory of it. -Smith
Learn to Labor and to wait -Longfellow
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity -Syrus
The reward that out-does all the others is the peace of knowing that you did right. -Jack Hyles
The purity of His life was the brightness of His glory. -Sir James Mackintosh
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. -George MacDonald
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity. -Howe
Nobody can acquire honor by doing wrong. -Jefferson
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman -Madame De Stael
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love -Anderson
Love is not so much looking into each other's eyes as looking in the same direction. -Van Caspel
One does not fall into love; one grows into love and love grows in him -K.M.
The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask for it -W. S. Landor
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin -Spenser
All glory comes from daring to begin -E.F.Ware
There is a great deal in the first impression -Congreve
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances -O. Wilde
A pleasing countenance is no slight advantage -Ovid
If I have ever loved you, I will always love you -Dr. Jack Hyles
Love is space and time measured by the heart -M. Proust
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in it, and stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in*-Stendahl
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime -Lamartine
You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. -Dr. Jack Hyles
Only the wise posess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them*-Coleridge
The closeness you will feel toward each other in the future is entirely dependent upon the memories you are making with each other now!*-Jack Schaap
Be ruled of time, the wisest cousellor of all -Pericles
There's a time for all things -Shakespeare
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. -Hare
What is true, simple and sincere is most congenial to man's nature. -Cicero
For never can anything be amiss when simplicity and duty tender it -Shakespeare
They are rich who have true friends -Thomas Fuller
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing -Bemjamin Franklin
Absence makes the heart grow fonder*-T. H. Bayly
Respect is greater from a distance*-Tacitus
Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance made more sweet. -Wordsworth
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue*-Campbell
Character is what you are in the dark -Dwight L. Moody
It is better to be faithful than famous -Theodore Roosevelt
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing*-Abraham Lincoln
Don't rely too much on labels; Far too often they are fables -C.H. Spurgeon
If the end be well, all will be well
All is good that hath good end -J. Awdelay
He who hath put agood finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden srown upon the whole*-Eustathius
We should behave to friends as we would wish friends to behave to us -Aristotle
For when the One Great Scorner comes to write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost-but how you played the game*-Grantland Rice
Those who love deeply cannot age -A. W. Pinero
There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream -T. Moore
Patient waiters are no losers -W. G. Benham
No true love there can be without its dread penalty-Jealousy -O. Meredith
I never saw the companion that was so companionable as solitude -Thoreau
Trust and obey, For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey*-John H. Sammis
He that nothing questioneth, nothing learneth -Fuller
The cause, not the pain makes the martyr
God never puts anybody in a place too small to grow in
Time is a short span between two long eternities
It does not take the future long to be the present
The best way to spend time is to invest it in eternity
People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do*
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday*
A philosher sees less on his tiptoes than a Christian on his knees
When it seems hardest to pray, pray hardest
Keep your lamp burning and let God place it where He will
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
