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Brush up on the Bible  ;)

A young Christian packing his bag for a journey said to a friend, "I have nearly finished packing.  All I have to put in are a guidebook, a lamp, a mirror, a microscope, a telescope, a volume of fine poetry, a few biographies, a package of old letters, a book of songs, a sword, a hammer, and a set of tools."  "But you cannot put all that into your bag," objected the friend. "Oh, yes," said the Christian.  "Here it is." And he placed his Bible in the corner of the suitcase and closed the lid. -Anonymous

The devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it. -Anonymous
 
Not man's word about God, but God's word about man. -Barth

 
The American nation from its first settlement in Jamestown to this hour is based upon and permeated by the Bible. --James Brewer
 
Let the men of science and learning expand their knowledge and probe with their researches every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from these dim ages. All they will do is to fortify the grand simplicity and essential accuracy of the recorded truths which have lighted so far the pilgrimage of man. --Winston Churchhill
 
 
In this little Book will be found the solution to all the problems of the world. -- Calvin Coolidge


The word of God is in the Bible as the soul is in the body. -Forsyth

 
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives.  To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made, and to this we must look as our guide in the future. --Ulysses S. Grant


It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people.  The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom. --Horace Greely

 
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find I reading God's word. -Grey
 
No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets the Author face to face. -Harris   
             
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more the truths contained in the Holy Scriptures. --John Herschel


 
That Book, sir, is the rock on which this Republic rests. --Andrew Jackson


 
I always have said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. --Thomas Jefferson

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Amen Sister Maria,

I must put this thread on my regular reading list. THANKS!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 8:31-32 NASB  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

No Thank you, Brother.   :D

The Bible continues to be the best selling book; it is regarded as the most economical of all fire escapes. -Leader
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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. --Robert E. Lee
 


All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.... All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it. --Abraham Lincoln

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All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.... All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it. --Abraham Lincoln
 

I am profitably engaged reading the Bible.  Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a better man. --Abraham Lincoln
 

But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. --Abraham Lincoln

 
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine book. --David Livingstone

 
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.  No book in the world equals the Bible for that. -McCosh
 

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. - D.L. Moody

 
You can't destroy the Bible!  It is like a cube!  Every time you turn it over it comes right side up! -D.L. Moody               :D    :D


 
Study the Bible with a telescope and after that study it with a microscope. - D.L. Moody
 
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I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women; but ... a knowledge of the Bible without a college education is more valuable than a college education without the Bible.  Everyone who has a thorough knowledge of the Bible may truly be called educated, and no other learning... no matter how extensive... can form a proper substitute. -    William Lyon Phelps

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The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching. --John Ruskin


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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -Shakespeare


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The Bible is a harbor where I can drop down my anchor, feeling certain that it will hold.  Here is a place where I can find sure footing; and, by the grace of God, from this confidence I shall never be moved. -Spurgeon
 

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When a home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element. --Charles Spurgeon


Perhaps there is no book more neglected in these days than the Bible.  I believe there are moldier Bibles in this world than there are of any sort of neglected books.  We have no book that is so much bought, and then so speedily laid aside and so little used, as the Bible. -Spurgeon

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It was for the love of the truths of this great and good Book that our fathers abandoned their native shore for the wilderness. --Zachary Taylor

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Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some person ever reads. -Toms

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Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them. --Unknown
 

Give me a Bible and a candle and shut me up in a dungeon and I will tell you what the world is doing. --Unknown

 
It is impossible to govern the world without the Bible. --George Washington


If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. --Daniel Webster

                                         
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost! -Anonymous

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Snarling at other folks is not the best way of showing the superior quality of your own character. -Anonymous

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Characters are achieved-not received.  They grow out of the substance of a man's soul. -Anonymous

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Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
 --Henry Drummond
         

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Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. -Emerson

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Every man has three characters -that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. -Karr
 

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -Macaulay
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -Seneca

To be worth anything character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life.  Cloistered virtues do not count for much. -Smiles

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. -Temple

A bad conscience embitters the sweetest comforts; a good one sweetens the bitterest crosses. -Anonymous

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To enter into the world and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience, that is Christian greatness. -Anonymous


A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience. -Cantor
 
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There is always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere, if you'll only listen for it. -Hughes


Every man, however good has a yet better man within him.  When the outer man is unfaithful to his deeper convictions, the hidden man whispers a protest.  The name of this whisper in the soul is conscience. -Humboldt
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Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge. -Lamennais
 
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Conscience is a walkie-talkie set by which God speaks to us. -Metcalf

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There is no witness so terrible-no accuser so powerful as conscience. -Sophocles

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He was a fool who killed the watchdog because it alarmed him when thieves were breaking into his house.  If conscience upbraids you, feel its rebuke.  It is your best friend. -Spurgeon

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Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. -Stanislaus
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. -Beecher

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The egg's no chick by falling from the hen, Nor man a Christian till he's born again. -Bunyan

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Sitting in a church pew for 6 months will not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in your garage for 6 months will make you a car.
                     
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Nobody can teach you how to be a Christian-you learn it on the job. -Clark
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The Scriptures give four names to Christians-saints, for their holiness; believers, for their faith; brethren, for their love; disciples for their knowledge. -Fuller

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A Christian is the keyhole through which other folk see God. -Gibson

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Many of us who profess to be Christians are so busy with the mechanics of our religion that we have no time left for the spiritual part of it. -Martin

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A church membership does not make a Christian any more than owning a piano makes a musician. -Meador

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I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along.  But I soon found that I would have to go against the current. - D.L. Moody
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian. -Penn
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A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration. -Spurgeon
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There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither a creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitally connected with a loving Christ. -Strong
                                                   
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens. -Webster
 
Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor. -Spurgeon
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The Christian cannot promise to do or not to do a given thing at a given time, for he cannot know what the law of love, which is the commanding principle of his life, will demand of him at that time. --Leo Tolstoy

I've got a few to add to your collection from Will Rogers.

All I know is what I read in the papers.
Will Rogers

My ancestors didnt come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
Will Rogers

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.
Will Rogers

There is no income tax in Russia. But theres no income.
Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.
Will Rogers

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.
Will Rogers

No man is great if he thinks he is.
Will Rogers

Well hold the distinction of being the only Nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.
Will Rogers

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Will Rogers is funny, I like him.  ;D ;D

Thanks for sharing those BEPs.

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Love is the only service that power cannot command and money cannot buy. -Anonymous
 
It is a man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. -Antoninus
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A gift is freely given, and expects no return, Its reason is love.  What is first given is love; that is the first gift.  The Holy Ghost come forth as the substance of love, and Gift is His proper name. --Thomas Aquinas

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Could we with ink the oceans fill and were the skies of parchment made and every stalk on earth quill and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the oceans dry, nor could that scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky. --Scribbled on an asylum wall

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Love spends his all, and still hath store. -Bailey

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Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.
-Beecher
We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love. -Black
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Love isn't like a reservoir.  You'll never drain it dry.  It's much  more like a natural spring.  The longer and the farther it flows, the stronger and the deeper and the clearer it becomes. -Cantor
 
 

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If we work upon marble, it will perish.  If we work upon brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust.  But, if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God, with love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. --Daniel
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To love someone means to see him as God intended him. --Feodor Dostoevski

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You will find as you look back on you life that the moments that stand out above everything else are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. --Henry Drummond

Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow; seek goodness in others, love more persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return.  The return, never fear, will take care of itself. -Drummond
 
Love is the purification of the heart from self.  It strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and worthier aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman courageous.  The power to love truly and devotedly is the highest gift with which a human being can be endowed. -Endsor
 
It is not a question of how much we know, how clever we are, nor even how good; it all depends upon the heart's love.  External actions are the results of love, the fruit it bears; but the source, the root, is in the deep of the heart. -Fenelon
 
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. -Franklin
 

 
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. -Hoosier Farmer
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The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. --Saadia Ben Joseph
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If the tender, profound, and sympathizing love, practiced and recommended by Jesus, were paramount in every heart, the loftiest and most glorious idea of human society would be realized, and little be wanting to make this world a kingdom of heaven. --Friedrick Wilhelm Krummacher
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When any church will inscribe over its altars, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement for the substance of both law and gospel, "Thou shalt love the Lord the God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and "... thy neighbor as thyself," that church will I join with all my heart and soul. --Abraham Lincoln
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Nor father or mother has loved you as God has, for it was that you might be happy when He gave His only Son.  When He bowed His head in the death hour, love solemnized its triumph; the sacrifice there was completed. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much.  This heart of mine began to thaw out; I could not keep back the tears.  I just drank it in...I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in the world and that is love. -Moody



He could break our stubborn hearts, but He wants to draw us toward Himself by the cords of love. -Moody


 
I had been feeding on love so long that I was anxious to do everybody good that I came in contact with. -D.L. Moody


 
Faith makes all things possible...love makes all things easy. -D.L. Moody


God's love is not a conditional love; it is an openhearted, generous self-giving which God offers to men.  Those who would carefully limit the operation of God's love . . . have missed the point. -Phillips

 
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -Pinero

A man will love a dog or a bird sooner than be loveless.  Captives have been known to fall in love with rats, and even spiders on the wall have been the objects of their affection.  A little flower that could not speak has been the prisoner's beloved friend.  We must have something to love.  Oh, and what wealth of love Jesus brings into the heart when he enters it! -Spurgeon
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It is when you get to doubt the love of God that you grow hard and cold.  But when you are fired with the love of a dying Savior who gave himself for you, you feel as if you loved every beggar in the street, and you long to bring every harlot to Christ's dear feet.  You cannot help it.  If Christ baptizes your heart into his love, you will be covered with it and filled with it. -Spurgeon
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In math, if you divide an infinite number by any number, no matter how large, you still have an infinite quotient.  So Jesus' love, being infinite, even though it is divided up for every person on earth, is still infinitely poured out on each one of us! -Spurgeon
                         
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There is a fleet lying in the river, richly laden, but it cannot come up, because the river is blocked up with ice.  So I see my Master's love lying out far down the river, and it would gladly come to my pour soul to enrich me and make me holy and heavenly, but the coldness of my heart, like ice, blocks up the channel, and I get not what I might obtain. Come, heavenly love, and melt the ice.  Flow, streams of grace, and dissolve every barrier.  Come, Jesus, come into my heart, and let thy treasures be mine forevermore! -Spurgeon

Silence cannot be misquoted
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Silence

...One of the hardest arguments to refute. -Josh Billings     :D :D ::)


It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment
to be silent. -Bruyere


I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. -Syrus   :-X  :-X  :-X

SAVIOR
 
 
My memory is almost gone, but I remember one thing: that I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. --John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace"

SIN
 
 
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. -Billings
 
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. -Fuller

The way to keep the heart quiet is to keep ourselves in the love of God and to do nothing to offend him. -Henry
 
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. --Abraham Lincoln

Sin will keep you from this Book.  This Book will keep you from sin. --Dwight L. Moody

Is sin so luscious that you will burn in hell for it? -Spurgeon
 
There is no sin for which it is worth your while to be damned. -Spurgeon
 

SELF-LOVE
 
 
He was like a cock that thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. -Eliot
 
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Franklin
 
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. -La Rochefoucauld

Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except heaven, and as a universal provider of everything except happiness. -Anonymous
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Money is a good servant but a dangerous master.  -Bouhours

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The Americans have little faith.  They rely on the power of the Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. -Johnson

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It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. -Lorimer
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When I had money everyone called me brother. -Polish Proverb
 
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When money speaks the truth is silent. -Russian Proverb
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CHURCH
 
 
This was posted on a Bronx, New York, church bulletin board: "Do come in-Trespassers will be forgiven." -Anonymous
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COMMITMENT
 
 
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him. -Spurgeon
 
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright. -Spurgeon

CONDUCT
 
 
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -Anonymous

 
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom.  It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated. -Lord Chesterfield
 

 
There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away. -Spurgeon
 
Plunge into the "fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins," and in an instant you are whiter than snow.  Every speck, spot, and stain of sin is gone, and gone forever. -Spurgeon
 
Trust Christ and you shall live.  The bloody sacrifice of Calvary is the only hope of sinners. -Spurgeon

It is the highest wisdom to pray for our children that while they are young their hearts may be given to the Savior. -Spurgeon

ECONOMY
 
 
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. -Franklin

Water is the only drink for a wise man. -Thoreau     ;)

EXPERIENCE
 
 
What you've got when you're too old to get a job. -Abramson
 
There is many a profitable good lesson to be learned by experience. -Henry
 
Not what happens to a man.  It is what a man does with what happens to him. -Huxley
 
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.  We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -Samuel Smiles
 
Is there any one so wise as to learn by the experience of others? -Voltaire

"A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out." —Harry Browne

"Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one." —John Maynard Keynes

AMEN

We're like gold miners. We go through an awful lot of dirt to find a nugget.

Nuggets are hard to find and easy to overlook. They are usually covered with dirt, scarred with needle tracks, and surrounded by empty bottles and "fools gold."

Why should we invest in them? Because God loves them so much. After all, they represent the sum and substance of His criteria and are therefore more than worth the price it takes to find them.

Jay Carty

FORGIVENESS
 
Every person should have a special cemetery lot in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones. -Anonymous
 
The best way to get even is to forget. -Anonymous
 
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more. -Bismarck
 
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory
of a wrong. -Emerson
 
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. -Lavater