Failure
“…I have more respect for the person who falls than the one who never tries. I get impatient with folks who stay on the ground and shoot down others who attempt to fly.”
Tommy Barnett, Adventure Yourself, 164.
“Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.”
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost, Feb. 18th —
“The only reason I led the NBA in rebounding was because I got a lot of help from my teammates — they did a lot of missing.”
— Moses Malone, Basketball Player —
“Achieving that goal is a good feeling, but to get there you have to also get through the failures. you’ve got to be able to pick yourself up and continue.” –Mary Lou Retton–
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently” — Henry Ford —
“In this business you either sink or swim or you don’t” –David Snell–
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” –Albert Einstein–
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.” — Thomas Edison —
“If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the one who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.”
— Buckminster Fuller —
Faith
“True faith drops its letter in the post office box and lets it go. Distrust holds on to a corner of it and wonders that the answer never comes.”
— A.B Simpson —
“Faith is going to Big Lots, the second time.” Jon Mays
“We must not only enter the Christian life by faith, but we must advance by faith each step of the way. At every new stage we shall find ourselves as incompetent and unequal for the pressure as before, and we must take the grace and the victory simply by faith.”
— A.B. Simpson, Days of Heaven on Earth, March 26 —
Faith and Feelings
‘Where in the Bible are feeling and faith said to be at odds? The fact is that faith engenders feeling as certainly as life engenders motion. We can have feeling without faith, it is true, but we can never have faith without feeling. Faith as a cold, unemotional light is wholly unknown in the Scriptures. The faith of those Bible heroes listed in the Book of Hebrews invariably aroused emotion and led to positive action in the direction of their faith. A statement, a promise, a warning always produced a corresponding excitation of feeling in the heart of the believer. Noah was “moved with fear.” Abraham “rejoiced” and “obeyed.” The Book of Acts is almost hilarious with joy. Perhaps the best summary of the whole thing is made by Paul when writing to the Romans, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” And Peter says, “Believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”‘
— A.W. Tozer, Paths to Power, 53-54. —
Faults
“I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.” –Jimmy Hoffa–
Fear
“I wouldn’t go downtown alone unless someone was with me.”
–TV announcer in Seattle doing a report on crime–
Fellowship
“Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude. But believers are not compared to bears or lions or other animals that wander alone. Those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people.” — C.H. Spurgeon —
Filling of the Spirit
“To be filled with Christ is not only to be filled with divine life in every part, but it is to be filled every moment It is to take Him into the successive moments in our conscious existence and to abide in His fullness. Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.”
— A. B. Simpson, The Best of A.B. Simpson, 38-39 —
Finances
“Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.” –Josh Billings–
“I just recently had my Visa card stolen….Right now it’s everywhere I want to be.”
–Scott Wood
Flattery
“All who fight the Lord’s battles must be content to die to the favorable opinions of men and the flattery of human praise.” — A.B. Simpson, Days of Heaven on Earth —
Flexibility
“In certain situations all other existing rules may be ignored.”
–World Boxing Association’s Rule 19–
Following Jesus
“God never gave a man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.” — George MacDonald —
Forgiveness
“To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy.” –MIT Assassination Club Slogan–
“If we cannot trust God to have dealt effectively with our past, we may as well throw in the sponge now and have it over with….But if God has indeed pardoned and cleansed us, then we should count it done and waste no more time in sterile lamentations.” –A.W. Tozer–
“If we don’t deal with our unresolved conflicts, they’ll deal with us….Are there people whom you need to forgive? Do yourself a favor. Give them something they don’t deserve but desparately need. GIve them the gift of forgiveness. It’s a gift that, once given, offers something in return. Your spirit gets a rest.”
— Tim Hansel — (Little House on the Freeway, 63, 66)
Free Speech
“When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.” — Samuel Goldwyn to a young writer —
Freedom
“To obey God is perfect liberty.” –Seneca–
“There are two freedoms: The false where one is free to do what he likes and the true where he is free to do what he ought.”
–Charles Kingley–
Friends
“Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?”
— C.S. Lewis —
Fruitfulness
“If the Holy Spirit doesn’t do it, there is nothing to it.”
— Armin Gesswein–
Future
“The future is as bright as the promises of God.” — Adoniram Judson —
“Most of our future lies ahead.” — Harry S. Truman —
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