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

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