What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. - Aristotle

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. Lin Yutang - Quoted by David Allen in Ready for Anything, p. 11

Knowing your commitments creates better choices of new ones. David Allen in Ready for Anything, p. 9

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. - Asian Proverb - Quoted in Ready for Anything by David Allen, p. 4

We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus. - John Adams and John Hancock

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here. - Patrick Henry

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. - C. S. Lewis

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. - Martin Luther

I am a man of one book. - Thomas Aquinas

The pessimist looks at opportunities and sees difficulties; the optimist looks at difficulties and sees opportunities.

The reason parents no longer lead their children in the right direction is because the parents aren't going that way themselves. - Frank Hubbard

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. Leo Tolstoy

Psychologists say that 10,000 thoughts go through the human mind in one day. That is 3,500,000 a year! If we must give an account of every idle word, how many would that be! If any man is judged according to the things recorded in his life, he will be condemned! - Paul Tan in Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times , p. 2960

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. - Cicero

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford, Sr.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. - Albert Jay Nock

It is good to rub and polish our minds against those of others. - Michel de Montaigne

In the long run the sword is beaten by the mind. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A mindless Christianity will produce a spineless Christianity - Joel R. Beeke in Whatever Happened to the Reformation? - ed. by Johnson and White, p. 245

Where there is little difference between the Christian and the non-Christian in what we think and believe, there will soon be little difference in how we live. - Joel R. Beeke in Whatever Happened to the Reformation? - ed. by Johnson and White, p. 246

Puritan preaching addressed the mind with clarity. It addressed man as a rational creature. The Puritans loved and worshiped God with their minds. They viewed the mind as the palace of faith. They refused to set mind and heart against each other, but taught that knowledge was the soil in which the Spirit planted the seed of regeneration. Puritans thus preached that we need to think in order to be holy. - Joel R. Beeke in Whatever Happened to the Reformation? - ed. By Johnson and White - p. 245

The price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill

Well done is better than well said - Benjamin Franklin

The soul is never starved who is feeding on God's Word. - Unknown

Success is the conjunction of an opportunity and the preparedness to meet that opportunity. - William Jennings Bryan

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to power. - Unknown

A man is never taller than when he is on his knees. - Unknown

Satan trembles when a saint of God gets down on his knees and touches heaven in prayer. - Unknown

Morning prayers lead to evening praise. - Unknown

Our daily prayers lessen our daily cares. - Unknown

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