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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life Great Stream Light Power Focused No Life Horse Drives He Until Disciplined Gets Confined Anything Anywhere Turned Dedicated Niagara Ever Grows Gas
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life World Mind My Life Live Would Comprehend Rather Small Could Mystery Surrounded Than Where
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. Henri Nouwen
Love Me Gratitude Joy Gift Discipline Given Am Celebrated Effort Acknowledge Explicit
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy. Henri Nouwen
Great Enemy Fear Other Intimacy Great Enemy Run True Makes Does Cling Us Create Each Away
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs. Henri Nouwen
Beautiful Needs Spiritual You Natural People Most Beautiful Insecurity Become Ways Willing More Take Lead Look Most Makes Lord Closer Formation Place Your Aware Asset Need
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful. Henri Nouwen
God Easy Joyful Always Hard Painful Moment Present
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. Henri Nouwen
Love Leadership People Power Healthy Control Christian Relationships Intimate Unable Give Develop Instead Know Most How Been Who Many Receive
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. Henry Ward Beecher
Education School Church Eminent Imperfect Exhibition Gallery Christians
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher
Best Failure Our Disappointments Come Greatest Often After Successes
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us. Ignatius of Antioch
Love Christ King Rose Earth Would Seek Entire Rather Over Come Him Because Than Die Died Again Us Who Jesus Jesus Christ
All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God. J. C. Ryle
God Day Obey Christ Will Men Power Think Ought Earth Those One Day Would Voice Shall He Come Dead Bidding Because Glory His Heard Trump Move Again Forth Who Graves Bell Raise
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind. James E. Faust
Life Day Peace Space Enjoy Life Mind Single Own Peace Of Mind Enjoy Our Sides Must Find More Vast Lifetime Absorb Messages Single Day Than Want Information Breathing Us Fully Bombarded Number Need
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead. James E. Faust
Better Become White Tell Lies Silent Remain Mislead Than Little White Lies
In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment. He cannot be bought; he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters. Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Life Great Other Others String Puppet Wealthy He Bought Like Masters Opinion Commandment Trump Donald Donald Trump Candidates Donors Taught In My Opinion Cannot Loving Who Helping Many Lives Jesus
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. Jim Elliot
God Soul Law Result Pronounce Laws More Perfect Takes Abundant Most Condemn Condemns Than Forgives Sentence Away
It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you. Joel Osteen
God You Matter Matters Approve He Like Likes Accepts Who
When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled. Joel Osteen
Christmas You Yourself Will Giving Others Spirit Give True Feel True Spirit Up Fulfilled Serving Serving Others
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof. Joel Osteen
God You Sometimes Will Fire Other Deliver Make Times
Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. Joel Osteen
Life Faith Good Fight
Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you. Joel Osteen
Best You Matter Out Days Still Done Front Your Why Believing Start Start Believing
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. John Bunyan
Will Our Minds More Foot Outward Comfort Than Quiet Golden Us
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people. John C. Maxwell
Best Great People Leader Other Way Best Way Great People Mentor Him Another Expose Prepare Her
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader. John C. Maxwell
Good People Leader Relate About Leaders Feel Well Make Confident Themselves
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. John C. Maxwell
Success Try Live Mine Those Find Entire Continually Years Mountain Gold Fifty Who
Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions. John C. Maxwell
Pride Matter Will Fall Meet Guess Exceptions Fail Leaders Demise Prune Who Guarantee
Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives. John C. Maxwell
People Better Others Relationships Worse Seek Havoc Feel Look Make Making Themselves Create Organizations Teams Lives Damage
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