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Please note that all new quotes are posted on the blog under the “quotes” category. They can be found by clicking here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have always had a fondness for quotes, and I collect them from time to time. You will notice that the quotes take on all topics from politics to religion to just making good sense. I hope that you enjoy them all.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

William Borden<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n<\/span>
\nGeorge Graham Vest<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Hope<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Actually, believing God while continuing in wanton sin is ultimately impossible.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beth Moore \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Believing God Bible Study\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Ronald Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

D.L. Moody<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Margaret Thatcher<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can tell that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve hit the wall at work, and that I need to recalibrate my life, when I can no longer empathize with others, when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m focused only on results, when I ignore other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s goals, and when I become frustrated with life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interruptions. Or when my daughter has to tell me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be all right, Kirby.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Kirby Dyess, Intel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Start by doing what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s necessary, then what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

St. Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Service is the rent that we pay for our room on Earth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Lord Halifax<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153All excess is rooted in emptiness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Beth Moore Living Proof Live in Charleston, WV 9-22-06<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it…and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Grace Llewellyn<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Elinor Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Winston Churchill <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<\/span>Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night.’<\/span><\/p>\n

William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”<\/span><\/p>\n

George S. Patton<\/span><\/p>\n

“Pressure usually comes when we have no plan.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Jim Smoke<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lord, my heart is restless until it finds its rest in You. Thank You that in You all things are made new!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Ray Steadman<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Ecc 4:6 NLT<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love may not make the world go \u00e2\u20ac\u2122round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Sean Connery<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When a civilization no longer inculcates an overriding attachment to its own survival, well, it no longer survives as a civilization. In peacetime, the disintegration appears more theoretical. In wartime, the holes really begin to show.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Diana West<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Oliver Wendall Holmes<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Enemy fears you. You are dangerous big time. If you ever really got your heart back, lived from it with courage, you would be a huge problem to him. You would do a lot of damage . . . .on the side of good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

John Eldridge \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wild at Heart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it” <\/span><\/p>\n

(Matthew 16:25)<\/span><\/p>\n

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made. <\/span><\/p>\n

M. Acklam <\/span><\/p>\n

“It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.” <\/span><\/p>\n

J.K. Rowling<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Kay Ash<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Time is the scarcest resource and unless it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managed, nothing else can be managed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Peter Drucker<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To change one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

William James<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Hyrum W. Smith<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We forge the chains that we wear in life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span>
\nSmall Church on the way to Grantsville, WV<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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