Saturday, March 31, 2012

March Word of the Day


March 1, 2012
·         Success: don’t expect it overnight but expect it. – Dewayne “The Rock” Johnson

March 2, 2012
·         Prince of Peace, I Am, Redeemer, Alpha, Omega, Deliverer, Savior, Lion, Lamb, King of Kings, Lord of Lords … what’s in a name?

March 3, 2012
·         Wisdom offers you long life in her right hand, and riches and honor in her left. – Proverbs 3:16

March 4, 2012
·         A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean. – The Lorax

March 5, 2012
·         Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson

March 6, 2012
·         The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. – Deuteronomy 6:4-5

March 7, 2012
·         There is no better way to thank God for your sight than to give a helping hand to someone in the dark. – Helen Keller

March 8, 2012
·         Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie

March 9, 2012
·         We the forgotten do the unthinkable for the ungrateful. – anonymous
o   Sent in by CWO2 Jason Tucker

March 10, 2012
·         “You won’t die,” the serpent replied to the woman. – Genesis 3:4 // Satan didn’t burn down the Garden of Eden; he just got Eve to eat some fruit. – Amanda Rios

March 11, 2012
·         Give freely and become wealthier; be stingy and lose everything. – Proverbs 11:24

March 12, 2012
·         Every day of your life, for as long as you live: climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow until you find your dream.

March 13, 2012
·         The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. – A.W. Tozer

March 14, 2012
·         For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. – Mark 10:45

March 15, 2012
·         If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important. – Galatians 6:3

March 16, 2012
·         The way we choose to respond to those against us says more about our confidence in God than our frustration with them. – Louie Giglio

March 17, 2012
·         Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart. – Proverbs 17:3

March 18, 2012
·         Integrity is not a 90% thing, not a 95% thing; either you have it or you don’t. – Peter Scotese

March 19, 2012
·         To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper. – Proverbs 19:8

March 20, 2012
·         It is always upon human weakness and humiliation, not human strength and confidence that God chooses to build His kingdom. – James Stewart

March 21, 2012
·         The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord. – Proverbs 21:31

March 22, 2012
·         It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Gandhi

March 23, 2012
·         When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. - Tecumseh

March 24, 2012
·         Without fear there can be no acts of courage. – Daniel Hess

March 25, 2012
·         There is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over 99 others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away! – Luke 15:7


March 26, 2012
·         The Lord says: Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. – Jeremiah 17:5

March 27, 2012
·         The only anchor of stability that will hold you firm, no matter how intense the gale-force winds, is God’s written Word. – Chuck Swindoll

March 28, 2012
·         The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher, and he gives the farmer great wisdom. – Isaiah 28:29

March 29, 2012
·         The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. – Isaiah 61:1

March 30, 2012
·         God, let me have two favors before I die. First, help me never to tell a lie. Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs. – Proverbs 30:7-8

March 31, 2012
·         The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? – Proverbs 18:14
o   Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  - Winston Churchill



Thursday, March 1, 2012

February Word of the Day


February 1, 2012
·         You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning within your own. - Unknown

February 2, 2012
·         If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience? – George Bernard Shaw
o   “You can live life in three ways – the easy way, the hard way, and the tragic way. The easy way is to learn from other’s mistakes as well as your own. The hard way is to learn only from your own mistakes. The tragic way is not to learn at all.” – Joyce Meyer à Jackie Ragland

February 3, 2012
·         For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights. – Proverbs 3:12
o   “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” à Dana Hampton

February 4, 2012
·         Be a man of conviction in a sea of consensus. – Pastor Colin Smith

February 5, 2012
·         Have peace in me. On earth you will have many trials and sorrows. Take heart, because I have overcome the world. – John 16:33

February 6, 2012
·         A heart that is stretched to meet the needs of other people will never be the same size again. – Dana Hampton

February 7, 2012
·         She seduced him with her pretty speech and enticed him with her flattery. He followed her at once, like an ox going to the slaughter. – Proverbs 7:21-22

February 8. 2012
·         Our greatest fear should not be failure, but succeeding at things that don’t matter. – Craig Groeschel

February 9, 2012
·         One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors. – Plato (427-347 BC)

February 10, 2012
·         People who accept discipline are on the pathway to life, but those who ignore correction will go astray. – Proverbs 10:17

February 11, 2012
·         To forgive is to set the prisoner free and discover that prisoner is you. – Corrie Ten Boom

February 12, 2012
·         You can look at the old windows or you can look at the sunshine coming through them. That’s the choice of the day. – Amanda Rios
o   If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. – Samuel Adams
o   There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. – John Adams
§  When in doubt, consult the founding father’s wisdom. à Dana Hampton

February 13, 2012
·         I chose to peer through the looking glass and see the wonders illuminated by the sun! I open that darn window to let the wind come in! – Metal Bob (Robert Hudson)

February 14, 2012
·         Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest. – Proverbs 14:4

February 15, 2012
·         If you reject discipline, you only harm yourself; but if you listen to correction, you grow in understanding. – Proverbs 15:32

February 16, 2012
·         I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen – not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – C.S. Lewis

February 17, 2012
·         The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. – Albert Einstein (of course that really could have been said by Mark Twain!)

February 18, 2012
·         How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony! – Psalm 133:1

February 19, 2012
·         Better to be criticized by a wise person that to be praised by a fool. – Ecclesiastes 7:5

February 20, 2012
·         God’s love is like the sun, overwhelming and powerful, and we seek shelter from it; rejecting it for fear it may completely consume us. – Erin Fannin

February 21, 2012
·         Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again – my Savior and my God. – Psalm 42:5

February 22, 2012
·         How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

February 23, 2012
·         Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God. – Psalm 90:2

February 24, 2012
·         A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense. – Proverbs 24:3

February 25, 2012
·         Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. – Philippians 2:3

February 26, 2012
·         Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you have heard from the beginning. – 2 John 1:6

February 27, 2012
·         The seed which fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of 30, 60, or even a 100 times as much as has been planted. – Matthew 13:23

February 28, 2012
·         You ever notice that the more tattoos of Jesus a guy has the more likely he is to stab someone to death. - Bowers

February 29, 2012
·         You won’t have to guess what I’m against if you know what I’m for. – Pat Green