Quote Garden: Contentment

My favorite quotations about contentment . . .

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can  rejoice because thorns have roses. (Ziggy)

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. (Unknown)

God’s will is often not so much doing glamorous things for Him but rather doing the ordinary things of everyday life in Him. He is honored when, empowered by His Spirit, we are faithful to do with excellence and joy that which He calls us to do—however mundane or insignificant it may seem. (Unknown)

Know, accept, be, who you are...everyone else is taken. (Dewey Novotny)

The very essence of the Christian faith is to say Jesus is good enough and I am in Him. (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)

Whatever a soul desires can be found in Christ. (Unknown)

Lord God, I so often try to persuade You that my plans and hopes are in my best interests and then ask You to bless them. But when I really think about it, how can I know what is really best for me? I can only judge by appearances, but You look ahead to the outcomes. Only You see and hold the future, and I want to confess that only You know what is truly best for me. Grant that I would become increasingly willing to let loose of my fond aspirations and embrace what You know is really in my best interests. I know I will have to wrestle with this all my life, because I often struggle with what You bring into my life and tell me to do. It is only when I embrace Your goodness and wisdom that I can stop wrestling with Your good plans and purposes. (Ken Boa)

They say a successful man is someone who will never let his wife find her wallet empty. But I say a true successful man is someone who marries a lady who will save, be frugal, and be smart with the money she finds in her wallet. (Sarah Tyau)

Disappointment is really a meter by which we may measure our hearts, and as with any measurement of the heart, we find we are sorely lacking. But when we bring our empty hearts to God and ask him . . . fill us wholly and completely with Him, we find our hearts so full . . . that we cannot possibly contain the joy. Disappointment has truly fled and trust has filled so that peace and gladness overflow. (Unknown)

Getting more done doesn’t ensure that you will be happier; it just means that you get more done. (Lee Silber)

“Happiness is not a destination. It is the attitude with which you choose to travel.” Arit Desal

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. (Grenville Kleiser)

My God lives, and He has my heart. (Mrs. Jonathan Edwards)

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (Unknown)

Human desire is to be brought under the Lordship of Christ for fulfillment to His wisdom and choosing. (Elisabeth Elliot)

God wants to build faith—not stress—through situations. (M.Bearden)

Overcome the enemy by refusing to complain. (Unknown)

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. (Eddie Cantor)

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. (Unknown)

I really do believe that every experience, if offered to Jesus, is our gateway to joy. (Elisabeth Elliot)

We ought to thank God for whatever stage of life we find ourselves in. (Elisabeth Elliot)

If I am not satisfied with what I have, I will never be satisfied with what I want. (Ralph Guthrie)

Next to faith, this is the highest art: to be content in the calling in which God has placed you. (Martin Luther)

Discontentment makes rich men poor, while contentment makes poor men rich. (Benjamin Franklin)

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Quote Garden: Victory

My favorite quotations about victory . . .
 

He got the better of himself, and that’s the best kind of victory one can wish for.

(Cervantes)

Daily victory requires daily surrender. (Unknown)

If you would live in victory over the circumstances great and small that come to you each day . . . and if you want God’s life and power to well up from inside the depths of your being . . . then you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.  (Amy Carmichael)

Be patient. . . above all with thyself. Do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. (Francis de Sales)

God always succeeds. God never fails. God never makes a mistake. God never leaves. God never forsakes. God is faithful. God is Alpha and Omega. (Aprill Brunson)

Take the Enemy seriously but not fearfully. We’re fighting a victorious battle. (Unknown)

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. (Harry S. Truman)

 

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Quote Garden: Planning

My favorite quotations about planning . . .

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! (Joel Arthur Barker)

Make a plan and then plan on that plan not working out at all how you wanted it to. (Alexa Mas)

See God’s faithfulness and goodness in your life everyday. Pray hard, work hard, and watch God make it all happen. (Janet Kroon)

God is greater than my bumblings. (Kristina Kroon)

Success in life is loving God and doing His will. (Unknown)

Live so that your memories will be part of your happiness. (Unknown)

Anything that leads you closer to Christ is worth spending your time on. (Unknown)

Fortune favors the bold. (Julius Caesar)

God has given me enough information to obey today. (Kristina Kroon)

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. (Vincent van Gogh)

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. (Alan Lakein)

Over and over, God proves His success rate to be perfect and complete. There is nothing too big, nothing too small, nothing too impossible for Him. God will fulfill His plan for lives at the ‘appointed time.’ (Aprill Brunson)

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. (John Lennon)

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. (Corrie ten Boom)

God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense. (Charles Swindoll)

O my God, grant that I may so wait upon Thee, that when quick decision and action are needed I may mount up with wings as an eagle; and when under direction of Thy will and the needs of the people I have to keep going under pressure, I may run and not be weary; and in times of routine and humble duty, I may walk and not faint. For all my fresh springs are in Thee, O God of my strength. (George Appleton)

If plan A fails, remember you have 25 letters left. (Unknown)

God never issued instructions that He is not prepared to equip us to follow. (Elisabeth Elliot)

 

Lord God, I so often try to persuade You that my plans and hopes are in my best interests and then ask You to bless them. But when I really think about it, how can I know what is really best for me? I can only judge by appearances, but You look ahead to the outcomes. Only You see and hold the future, and I want to confess that only You know what is truly best for me. Grant that I would become increasingly willing to let loose of my fond aspirations and embrace what You know is really in my best interests. I know I will have to wrestle with this all my life, because I often struggle with what You bring into my life and tell me to do. It is only when I embrace Your goodness and wisdom that I can stop wrestling with Your good plans and purposes. (Ken Boa)

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Quote Garden: Humility

My favorite quotations about humility . . .

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change;

where we are right, make us easy to live with. (Peter Marshall)

Be humble, for you are made of the earth,

Be noble, for you are made of the stars.

(Serbian proverb)

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.  (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

It is always the secure who are humble.  (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)

Humility is realizing that we ourselves are nothing, but we are everything in Christ. (Bill Gothard)

Those who think too much of themselves don’t think enough. (Amy Carmichael)

If we refuse to humble ourselves, there are many others who are eager to help us do it. (Bill Gothard)

 

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Butterfly Time

I took this picture in August 2010, on the Verity campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. Needing a quiet moment at the tail end of a whirlwind weekend, I stepped outside to one of my favorite spots on campus--the patch of wildflowers behind the barn. Ahh, my weary soul was nourished observing the beauty and life in God's creation. 

I am challenged by the brief lifespan of a butterfly. In its short life it is and it does what God designed. Its life is so fleeting as to be measured in moments—what beautiful moments they are, basking in the fullness of God's eternal goodness.

Quote Garden: Faith

My favorite quotations about faith . . . 

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. (Elisabeth Elliot)

Hope prevents us from clinging to what we have and frees us to move away from a safe place and enter unknown and fearful territory. (Henri J. M. Nouwen)

Lean upon His Words, and rest in the hope that He will confirm that which He has wrought in you so far. (Francois de Salignac de la Moth Fenelon)

Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. (St. Augustine)

Faith is seeing the pattern of God’s character in my life and expecting Him to continue it in my present circumstances. (Cameron Houser)

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take that step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen: there will be something solid for us to stand on, or God will teach us to fly. (unknown)

Today is not going to be the first day that God lets me down.

I find no secure place for my soul except in You, and I pray that what is scattered in me may be brought together, so that no part may be separate from You. (St. Augustine)

In everything by prayer . . . (Apostle Paul)

I’ve learned that my strength is not found in how intensely I struggle . . . but in how completely I surrender. (Ken Gire)

Life works better when we learn to glance at things and gaze at God. (Selwyn Hughes)

LORD, Help me be who you created me to be, because I see You as You are. (Kristina Kroon)

See life as Christ sees it.

Fretting magnifies the problem, but prayer magnifies God. (Joanna Weaver)

Jesus knew the answer to greater needs is greater prayer, not harder work. (Lauren Bell)

God has my address and phone number. (Rebecca Sauer)

When God is about to do something great, He starts out with a difficulty. When He is about to do something truly magnificent, He starts with an impossibility. (Armin Gosswein)

The very essence of the Christian faith is to say Jesus is good enough and I am in Him. (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)

I can choose to have my best, or I can choose to have God’s best. (unknown)

Treat God like He is real and that His promises are true. (unknown)

See fears and anxieties as God’s tap on my shoulder to seek His face. (Bill Thrasher)

My potential for success is directly proportional to my willingness to let God work in my life. (unknown)

Don’t seek after ministry, but anticipate the fruit of a disciplined life.  (John Wesley)

What God commands us to do He enables us to do. (Bill Gothard)

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. (Corrie ten Boom)

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. (Emmanuel Teney)

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. (Thomas Aquinas)

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. (Blaise Pascal)

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. (Emmanuel Teney)

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. (Khalil Gibran)

Faith is a passionate intuition. (William Wordsworth)

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. (D. Elton Trueblood)

Faith is spiritualized imagination. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

(Saint Augustine)

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.  (Corrie Ten Boom)

Fear knocked at the door.  Faith answered.  And lo, no one was there. (unknown)

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.  (B.C. Forbes)

Faith makes things possible, not easy. (unknown)

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.  (Blaise Pascal)

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.  (Carter Lindberg)

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. (unknown)

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.  (Colette Baron-Reid)

Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. (unknown)

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.  (Robert Collyer)

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  (unknown)

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse. (Philip Yancy)

Faith is the deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. (Oswald Chambers)

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Quote Garden: Perspective

My favorite quotations about perspective . . .

The true voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new horizons, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

See life as Christ sees it.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. (Ziggy)

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. (unknown)

God won’t always change our circumstances, but if we ask Him, He will often step in to change our perspective. (Joni Earikson Tada)

Quit whining about what you can’t do—be faithful to do what you can. Use what you have for Jesus. (John Ray)

Rather than telling people No, offer them a better alternative. (Kevin McCray)

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well- assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that follow it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is Christ in me that makes the difference—not me in a different set of circumstances. (Elisabeth Elliot)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)

Let’s not concentrate on disabilities, let’s focus on abilities. (Rick Hansen)

We see things as they appear; God sees things as they are. (Mike Pellascio)
 

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. (G. K. Chesterton)

I know how to change “unchangeables” . . . I can change my perspective. (David Rees)

 

Anything that comes into my life that causes me to realize that I need God more, is good. (Pastor Fraley)

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Dream Big, but be Faithful in the Little Things

"Dream big but be faithful in the little things" is a favorite motto of mine. In my mind I visualized a picture to illustrate the motto, by contrasting full-grown trees with acorns. Standing tall, clothed in their autumn finery, the magnificent trees in the background of this picture inspire me to "dream big." The acorns and leaf in the foreground remind me, however, that it is not enough to have big dreams. It is "faithful[ness] in the little things" that makes those big dreams possible. Big things grow from little things—every giant oak was once a tiny acorn. And big things are comprised of little things—the radiant canopy of a forest is made of countless colorful leaves. 

Roses and Thorns

Quote Garden: Nature

My favorite quotations about nature . . .

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.  (George Washington Carver)

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.  (Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther)

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  (Juvenal)

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks.  Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story.  (Linda Hogan)

Nature is the art of God.  (Thomas Browne)

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Quote Garden: Priorities

My favorite quotations about priorities . . .

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. (Stephen Covey)


Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. (Grenville Kleiser)

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. (Eddie Cantor)

God has not called me to an easy life—He has called me to a purposeful life. 

Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, Simplify. (Henry Thoreau)

My fear for you is not failure, but success in the things that do not matter. (Howard Hendricks)

Getting more done doesn’t ensure that you will be happier; it just means that you get more done. (Lee Silber) 

It is not enough if you are busy. The question is, What are you busy about? (Henry David Thoreau)

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. (Vincent van Gogh)
 

Sometimes it is hard to admit that overwork is sin, but it is. Overwork is destructive of the Holy Spirit. It dims the vision, sharpens the temper, kills creativity, and deadens spiritual sensitivity. (Hellene Pollock)

Sometimes, we gain more by doing less. (unknown)

 

What is asked of us is not necessarily a great deal of time devoted to what we regard as spiritual things, but the constant offering of our wills to God, so that the practical duties which fill most of our days can become part of His order and be given spiritual worth. (Evelyn Underhill)

The things that matter to God matter. (Emerson Eggerichs) 

Living by priorities and within boundaries is a lot smarter than living on adrenaline. (Kristina Kroon)

Embrace all but only the good things that God has intended for you. (Lauren Bell)

I cannot carry every load, but I can carry the load God has for me. (Joanna Weaver)

It’s a great release to know that the secret to “doing it all” is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the all He has given us to do and doing all of that. (Jill Briscoe)

When my relationship with God is in order, other things will be in order. And when my relationship with God is out of order, everything else in my life is going to be out of order, sooner or later. (Nancy Leigh deMoss)

It is better to be faithful than famous. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Live in light of eternity.

Eliminate and concentrate! (Ann Ortlund)

Live your life with purpose. If your life is about Christ, then everything you do should have a point—point to Christ. (Peter Kroon)

Making a living is only part of living. (Cecil Andrus)

How are your commitments lining up with your values?

Make your choices based on your priorities, not your feelings. (Kristina Kroon)

In everything by prayer . . . (Apostle Paul) 


In each day God gives us enough time and energy to fulfill all but only what He has called us to do for that day. (Nancy Leigh deMoss)

One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. (Elisabeth Elliot)

In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. (unknown)

Don’t just do what you want to do; do what you were made to do! (unknown)

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Quote Garden: Life

My favorite quotations about life . . .

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. (from the Sanskrit)

Live for the glory of God and in the power of God. (Janet Kroon)

Live so that your memories will be part of your happiness. (unknown)

If you would live in victory over the circumstances great and small that come to you each day . . . and if you want God’s life and power to well up from inside the depths of your being . . . then you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt. (Amy Carmichael)

Life is a voyage that’s homeward bound. (Herman Melville)

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. (James Taylor)

Life is so urgent it necessitates a slow and steady reverence. (Ann Voskamp)

Make your life a mission, not an intermission. (Arnold Glasgow)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact. (William James)

Life is now.

God is the beyond in the midst of our lives. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. (Eddie Cantor)

See God’s faithfulness and goodness in your life everyday. Pray hard, work hard, and watch God make it all happen. (Kristina Kroon)

In the race of life, you can’t run at a sprint pace for a marathon distance.

The balanced life consists of four Rs: relationships, responsibilities, rest, and reflection. (Kristina Kroon)

Life goes by too fast to not enjoy the people that surround you. (James Beeman)


The will of God is not something you add to your life. It is a course you choose. (Elizabeth Elliot)

Love generously. Praise loudly. Live fully. (Elias Porter)

Live intentionally, not accidentally! (unknown) 

Let your life speak well of Jesus every day. (unknown)

God’s will is a lifestyle. (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)

In my life, I do not want my life to be a milestone that people pass by and remember. I want to be a fork in the road that because of the clarity of my life men choose one way or another. (Jim Elliot)

Life is not too short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. (Karen Kaiser Clark)

Our mission in life is to make people think that Jesus is wonderful. (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)

 

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Quote Garden: Love

My favorite quotations about love . . .

We love because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19)

We should remember that while knowledge may make a man look big, it is only love that can make him grow to his full stature. For whatever a man may know, he still has a lot to learn, but if he loves God, he is opening his whole life to the spirit of God. (Jim Elliot)

To love a person is to see him as God intended him to be. (Fyoder Dostoyevysky)

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Love stops worrying about how others see me, and reaches with a heart to give. (Anna Lukachick)

Love is thoughtful and practical. (Anne Ortland)

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. (Peter McWilliams)

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. (C. S. Lewis)

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. (Henry Drummond)

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. (Charles Dickens)

Love is the most divine, when it loves according to needs, and not according to merit. (George MacDonald)

What, then, is the true way of loving one’s friends? It is to love them in God, to love God in them; to love what He has made them; and to bear for love of Him what He has not made. (Felelon)

Nothing beats love at first sight except love with insight. (Unknown)

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Quote Garden: Expectations

My favorite quotations about expectations . . . 

You might not always get what you want, but you will always get what you expect. (Charles Spurgeon)

Expectations destroy relationships. (Dan Dickerson)

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Chosen Course

Upward

 

I took this photograph in October 2010, at South-Eastway Park, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The trails in the woods there were some of my favorite places to walk and think and pray. During my years living in Indianapolis, I frequented these woods, doing my share of looking forward and backward. But always, trying to keep looking upward. “I lift up my eyes . . . from where comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:1-2).

Quote Garden: Happiness

My favorite quotations about happiness . . . 

Live so that your memories will be part of your happiness. (unknown)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet. (Proverb)

The secret to happy living is praising God and trusting Him in all things. (Kristina Kroon)

Most folks are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be. (Abraham Lincoln)

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. (Charles Spurgeon)
 

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. (unknown)

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. (Hugh Downs)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. (Mildred Barthel)

You can complain because roses have thorns,  or you can  rejoice because thorns have roses. (ZIGGY)

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. (Unknown.)

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. (Burton Hills)

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. (Mother Theresa)

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. (Margaret Bonanno)

To be happy, don’t do whatever you like, like whatever you do. (Mary Engelbreit)

 

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Quote Garden: Style

My favorite quotations on fashion/style . . .

Fashion is what you are offered four times a year by designers- and style is what you choose. (Lauren Hutton)

Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself. (Lauren Hutton)

There is nothing spiritual about being frumpy! (Leslie Ludy)

Dress as a daughter of the King, rather than as a product of pop-culture. (Leslie Ludy)

Personal style has nothing to do with fashion.  It's something that resonates from inside of us.  Your style is just an extension of who you really are.  Our clothing is an expression of our style (the one the world notices most), but it doesn't stop there.  It's in the way we frost a cupcake, decorate our home, speak to others, it's in the music we like, the way we fix our hair, and how we throw a party, the way we write, what we like to read.  Whether you know it or not, you have your own style and it is there in everything you touch.  The trick is, figuring out what your own unique style is and loving it.

(Cori from laviepetite.blogspot.com)

Wardrobe should be determined by ministry. (Ann Ortland)

Look quality, think quality, talk quality—and expose yourself to quality. (Ann Ortland)

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Quote Garden: Problems

My favorite quotations on problems . . .

Is this a real problem, or are you just feeling sorry for yourself? (Susan Shipley)

Solve problems biblically, not just emotionally. (Jo McCray)

God is bigger than your problems. (unknown)

Problems are often opportunities in camoflage. (unknown)

God has no problems, only plans. (Corrie tenBoom)

Life’s struggles are the shortest route to a deep appreciation of our need to know God better. (Carolyn Custis James)

Fretting magnifies the problem but prayer magnifies God. (Joanna Weaver)

When life gives you scraps, make quilts! (unknown)

God does not offer escape from our enemies, but triumph over our enemies. (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)

How often do we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God’s omnipotency? (Hudson Taylor)

Joy is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Christ. (William VanderHaven)

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water. (unknown)

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude about it. Don’t complain. (Maya Angelou)

A problem well stated is half-solved. (Neil Anderson) 

People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it. (William Raspberry)

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. (Henry J. Kaiser)

The answer to every dilemma is Christ. (Unknown)

 

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* The above quotations were collected from various sources. I have done my best to quote and credit them correctly. Please inform me if you notice an error.

Introducing my Quote Garden!

“Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink” (Terri Guillemet, webmaster of The Quote Garden). Today I am introducing the beginning of my own little Quote Garden. In the coming posts, I look forward to sharing my own growing collection. Enjoy!