Friday, June 10, 2011

Inspiring. Entertaining. Peculiar.


I am a quote keeper. I have a list of quotes in my phone that when put into Microsoft Word came out at a grand total of nine pages. I slimmed it down & these are my favorites. Enjoy.


"Jesus is the ‘I AM’ not the ‘I WAS’ or ‘I WILL’...He is your present help in time of need...TODAY!"- Pastor Judah

"The difference between cowards and champions is in what you do, not how you feel.” - Leon Fontaine

"The most unhappy people are the ones who always undervalue what they have & overvalue what others have." - Reverend Run

"Whatever our souls are made of, his & mine are the same." - Emily Brontë

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams" - Dr. Seuss

"Real love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese proverb

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
- Dr. Seuss

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Helen Keller

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene

"Our lives end the day we become silent about the things that matter. " MLK Jr.

"To love at all is to be vulnerable" - CS Lewis

“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” -Charles Spurgeon

"'I did' beats 'I will' any day." – Cyle

"Belong. Believe. Behave." - Judah Smith

"Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love, but to be genuinely loved by another- to know that love grows out of reason & choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me- who sees in me something worth loving." - Gary Chapman

"Don't let your issue become your identity." – Mike

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” —Marvin Gaye

"God responds to priests not politicians. Politicians pursue the heart of people, priests pursue the heart of God." - Zach Neese

"We can't measure something that's immeasurable." - Thomas Miller

"Gods joy and peace end where we stop them, when we take ourselves out of the equation. He is unending!" - Pastor Judah

“God’s raising up a generation that would rather carry a sword than a title.” -Damon Thompson

"You could get your heart broken or you could have the greatest love affair of your life, but you'll never know unless you try." - When in Rome

"The enemy will try to steal a gifting that's not yielded to the Holy Spirit." - Kari Jobe

"Hey! The moon followed me!" - my neice

"We're meant to lose people we love, how else would we know how important they are to us." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality" - Warren G. Bennis

"Praise is an explosion of faith that allows you to run straight into the loving arms of Jesus." - Darlene Zschech

"I'm an early bird & I'm a night owl, so I'm wise & I have worms." - Michael Scott

"The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes." Thomas Watson

"First priority is God's presence before His plan. His plan is a byproduct of a life in His presence." - Elijah Waters

"Holiness isn't rules put ON a believer, it's the reality of God withIN a believer" - Elijah Waters

"Give your best today & I will better your best tomorrow" - God (Judah Smith)

"Favor is a result of grace which is a result of God's choosing you." - Judah Smith

"Respond to God, don't react to life." - Judah Smith

"Jesus was radical!! Anything short of being a radical believer can't be normal Christianity. Radical Christianity has become rational Christianity. Let's get disgruntled." - Pastor Bowles

"Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life." - Eat. Pray. Love.

"You don't need a man, Liz, you need a champion." - Eat. Pray. Love.

"The will of God won't take you where the grace of God can't keep you." - Pastor Stan

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.” - Eduardo Galeano

"Love, it will not betray, dismay, or enslave you—it will set you free to be more like the man you were made to be." - Mumford and Sons

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." -Epicurus

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

"Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles & quakes." - Beth Moore

"You can't lead people to worship unless you worship." - Tommy Walker

"God didn't send His Son to make bad people good, but to make dead people alive." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world." - Walt Disney

"God isn't looking for perfect vessels, He's looking for yielded vessels." - Catherine Kulhman

"Yeah! I went hunting once. Shot the deer in the leg...had to kill it with a shovel, it took about an hour. Why do you ask?" - Michael Scott

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit" -Aristotle

"Successful men do daily what unsuccessful men do occasionally." -Pastor Brent Sparks

"I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living." -Steven Spielberg

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." - Goethe

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They tricked us into reading a book by enticing us with promises of vulgarity.” - Cartman

“Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up it's bobsled time!” - Cool Runnings

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” - Marilyn Monroe

“I shall keep the silence of my heart with greater care, so that in the silence of my heart I hear His words of comfort, & from the fullness of my heart I comfort Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poor. For in the silence & purity of the heart God speaks.” - Mother Teresa

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.” - Dave Barry

“The only way to get started is to stop talking and start doing!” - Walt Disney

‘No statue has ever been erected to a critic, but to the people they have criticized, many statues have gone up.” - Glenn W. Turner

“Think of it as an investment in personal expression.” - Piano Shop on the Left Bank

“One day, a person will come along who will make you realize why it never worked with anyone else.” - Cyle

'You'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.' - Cyle

“I don't know what it is with girls & vampires!” - Darren

“If you focus on what you've left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.” - Ratatouille

“You rap like Charles Barkley” - Tyler

“I just got this like eight years ago!!” - Tina Fey

"If love be rough with you, be rough with love; prick love for pricking, & you beat love down." - Romeo & Juliet

“Shelly, I'm like Ariel & you are my fish!!” - my neice

“The level of rock depends on the size of your guitar strap.” - Jordan

“An apple's the gateway to steak.” - Paul

“If we don't know where we're going we'll find a sign in anything.” - Abbey

“The goal is soul.” - Gretsch

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” - Helen Keller

“If we will walk with God for a lifetime, we have to be willing to embrace mystery.” - Pastor John Stumbo

“I like your Christ, I do no like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mohandas Gandhi

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller

“Get out of the bitter barn & play in the hay!” - Phoebe

“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” - Hitch

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whenever I'm about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" And if they would, I do not do that thing.” - Dwight Schrute

“You can observe a lot by watching.” - Yogi Berra

“If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you've always had.” - Cyle

"Love is begun by time & time qualifies the spark & fire of it" - Shakespeare

“I'm madly in love with you, and it's not because of your brains or personality.” - Little Miss Sunshine

“I was finishing dinner at a restaurant last night. The waitress asked, 'you want a box for that?' I said 'no, but I'll wrestle you for it’.” - John Mayer

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