Worth Thinking About

 

I can't stop the rain,

but I can hold the umbrella.

~ Emily Roussell

 

 

Your mind is a garden.

Your thoughts are the seeds.

You can grow flowers or

you can grow weeds.

~ Osho

 

 

All we get is time and choices.

Be wise with both.

 

 

TRUST THE PAST TO GOD’S MERCY,

THE PRESENT TO GOD’S LOVE, AND

THE FUTURE TO GOD’S PROVIDENCE.

~ Augustine

 

 

Kindness is

speaking with love,

listening with patience,

and acting with compassion.

 

 

It’s better to

walk alone than with

a crowd going in the

wrong direction.

~ Fari Elysian

 

 

Maybe the journey isn’t so much

about becoming anything.  Maybe it’s

about un-becoming everything that

isn’t really you, so you can be who

you were meant to be in the first place.

~ Paulo Coelho

 

 

God put a light in you.

On purpose.

For a purpose.

 

 

Talent might make you good,

but it’s your

attitude and work ethic

that will make you great.

~ Allistair McCaw

 

 

All I know is

if you don’t do

something different –

you will keep getting

what you’re getting now.

Change requires

a new path –

a new direction.

A new something.

~ Darla Evans

 

 

JOY does not simply

happen to us. We have

to choose joy and keep

choosing it every day.

~ Henri Nouwen

 

 

“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular; it is why he does it.  The motive is everything.  Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.”

~ A.W. Tozer

 

May our thoughts lead to motives and actions that honor and please God.

 

Create in me a pure heart, O God,

     and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 51:10

 

All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.

Proverbs 16:2