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Notes, Quotes & Anecdotes

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
More important than Divine healing –is Divine health.
Need does not constitute ministry—Obedience to the Holy Spirit does.
Necessity overrules ceremony.
Lust is ALL get—Love is ALL give.
Love cannot exist without an object to love.
Worship the Glory of the Lord—and the Lord of Glory.
It is not where you come from, but where you are going that counts.
Your memory is the part of your brain you use to forget with.
It is not what we do for the Lord that counts, but what the Lord does through us.
Just because God is working through us does not mean that we are right with God.
People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Some wish to hear the words of God, others wish to receive it.
The life Christ lived qualified Him for the death He died—and the death He died qualifies us for the life we live.
Living is enough to enjoy living.
If living is enough—enough is a feast!
A gentleman is one who considers the rights of another over his own feelings—and the feelings of another over his own rights.
Serving God under law is a duty—serving under love is a delight.
Evil is the stone on which the good sharpens itself.
An eternity to explore an infinity! Knowledge grows—but wisdom lingers. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
To get a string to go where you want is easy if you pull it rather than push it. Be a leader by example.
Sometimes you have to jump off a cliff, and build your wings on the way down!
Preaching is Logic on Fire. Passion and precision.
Let us not confuse "Good News" with "good views".
More knowledge of God leads to a higher form of worship.
There is always free cheese in a mousetrap!
If we find fault with a product—we find fault with its maker.
Some complain that roses have thorns—others rejoice that thorns have roses!
The ability to lie—is a liability.
After all is said and done—there is more said than done.
When the prodigal son was hungry, he went to the pigs—when he was desperate, he went to his father.
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep for that he cannot lose.
Never doubt in the dark—what God told you in the light!
Be an OYSTER—make a pearl out of life’s irritants.
One of the ironies of the human being is that when he has lost his way, he travels twice as fast.
Some people walk in the rain—others just get wet.
"Don’t let just anybody mess with your head". (sign on a bus ad for a haircut business)
There is something perverse about more than enough. When we have more, it is never enough. It is always somewhere out there, just out of reach. The more we acquire, the more elusive enough becomes.
"Hindsight Revelation"—understanding after the fact. Which is according to the flesh.
How can you be satisfied with existence, one you have lived with purpose?
The power is in the message—not the messenger.
As long as Christians think technology is a tool of the devil, they will hesitate to use it for its ultimate purpose—to Glorify God, and spread the Gospel.
You cry over spilled champagne! Your complaints are not over the lack of necessities, but the abundance of benefits. You bellyache over the frills, not the basics. Over benefits not essentials. The source of your problem is your blessing.
GRATITUDE—More aware of what you have, than what you don’t. What we have is far greater than anything we might want.
We might be the only Jesus "with skin on" that those, with whom we have to do, will know.
How do we know if we have a servant’s heart? By how we act when we are treated like one!
Don’t trust in your ability to follow—Trust in His ability to lead.
An unripe apple is not fit to eat.
Keep the faith—but not to yourself!
Be careful your head doesn’t grow faster than your heart.
The best things in life are—not things!
Teamwork divides the effort—and multiplies the effect.
True courage is not the absence of fear—but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.
It is better to arrive late in this world—than early in the next.
Trouble and the grace to bear it come in the same package.
When you are up to your neck in hot water—be like the teapot, and sing!
We are Easter people—living in a Good Friday world.
If you are interested in the hereafter—remember the here determines the after.
The Easter bunny was not crucified, and did not die for your sins.
A pardon is not dependent on the acceptance of the person receiving it. A pardon deems the guilty party innocent, and an innocent person cannot be held accountable for the crime.
Curse it. Rehearse it. Nurse it. Or praise God for it and be delivered. Disperse it.
"I like me best when I’m with you."
A man, who ignores history, is like a man without a memory.
Using our own righteousness to try to cover our sins is like a few strands of hair to cover a bald man’s head.
Never does one the more appreciate the need, and enforce the desire for air, than when he is deprived of it for but more than a minute or two. Let someone be in fear of drowning, they will cry out for safety. Let them be denied rescue immediately, and their safety become primary in thought and action. Threaten their life by further delay, until despair has consumed them by terror, and much more will they be grateful for their rescue, and thankful to the one who gave it.
That God would sometimes "hold us under" until we would never forget the place, and condition from which we were saved.
God does not comfort us that we would be comfortable, but that we would comfort others.
Take the devil to Calvary, and remind him of God’s Love for you.
I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life—He gave me life, that I might enjoy ALL things.
Worry—is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
Some people are Born Again Christians with birth defects.
Jesus was never off His cross, until He was nailed to it. For He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev. 13:8)
In all thy getting—get GOD.
When I am right, no one remembers—when I am wrong no one forgets.
Are you a thermostat, or a thermometer? A leader, or a follower? Reflecting the environment, or changing it?
Sometimes a majority simply means all the fools are on the same side.
Stop existing—and start living!
To silence a preacher from preaching judgment is like being awoke from sleep by a fire alarm, and just silencing the alarm, and going back to sleep.
It is sometimes easier to get forgiveness—than permission.
Your heart will not accept what your mind rejects.
Entertainment has replaced instruction.
Experience is the comb we receive after we’ve lost our hair.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
We are all manufacturers. Some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses.
What I need is a blessing that isn’t in disguise.
It doesn’t make any difference whether you win or lose—until you lose. ("Peanuts")
If at first you don’t succeed—so much for skydiving!
Genius has limits; stupidity does not.
When you give your word—keep it.
Our problems are opportunities to discover God’s solutions.
There are some people who, if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.
You can choose your choices, but you can’t choose the consequences of your choices.
The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.
Expecting the world to be fair to you just because you are a good person is like expecting a bull will not attack you just because you are a vegetarian.
It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out—It’s the grain of sand in your shoe!
Never pull down a fence until you find out what the fence was put there for in the first place.
It takes a steady hand to hold a full cup. (being responsible with the full cup of money at your disposal)
It’s never crowded along the extra mile.
Pain reminds us we’re alive—Love reminds us why.
Do today what others won’t, and live tomorrow like others can’t.
No one can drive us crazy—unless we give them the keys.
Love doesn’t make the world go around—but it does make the ride worth while.
Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards.
Good judgment comes from experience—and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Wise men talk because they have something to say—Fools because they have to say something.
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
Don’t think that there are no crocodiles just because the water is still.
Marriage is like flies on a screen door—half are trying to get in, while the other half are trying to get out.
GOD GIVES GIFTS—NOT WAGES.
A man can be honestly mistaken until he encounters Truth. Then he will quit being mistaken, or quit being honest.
"The Principle Speaker" Principle = what’s left over after the interest is gone.
The same sword can be used to circumcise or to castrate!
Think twice—Answer once.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain.
When a bald man walks into a room, all he sees is hair!

God did not make man a robot—He made them to be clay!
Everywhere is within walking distance—if you have the time.
Even an oak tree was once a nut that stood its ground.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and lightning bug. Mark Twain.
When you have no helpers, see all your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God; when you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord. C.H.Spurgeon.
A feckless pursuit of an untamed ornithoid. (A wild goose chase).
Peter Pan Christianity—I’ll never grow up, I’ll never grow up!
There is a difference between holding back and being kept back.
Those who cook up stories—will get into hot water!
A good leader knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.
PHYRRIC VICTORY—is a victory gained at too great of a cost. Even when you win, you lose.
Change the heart, and you change the outward expression of the heart automatically. You may be able to train the actions into submission through much effort and constant watching and care, but change the heart and the actions automatically conform .The heart of man is evil constantly, but the heart of God is righteous only. We no longer have the heart of man but now the heart of God! We are new creatures with a new heart to guide us in the Father’s will.
The smallest deed always exceeds the grandest of intentions.
We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.
Madness takes its toll!—Please have exact change.
Just about the time when you can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends!
Whether the glass is seen as half-full or half-empty depends on just how thirsty the viewer is.
Luck is a dividend of sweat; the more you sweat, the luckier you are.
If you fall down seven times—get up eight!
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Rust ruins more tools than overuse.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t go anywhere.
What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular.
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
To belittle is to be little.
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
The Naked Truth: falsehood and truth went swimming. Falsehood stole truth’s clothing. Truth went naked rather than appear in the garments of falsehood.
If you plant a tree, don’t keep pulling it up by the roots to see how it is growing.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing!
Preach the Gospel at all times—if necessary, use words. St Francis of Assissi
We are not living letters because we are living; we are living letters because the living letter is living within us! (insight from the Lord 5/17/99)
God will let you believe what you need to believe in order to get you to go where you need to be.
The heart of every problem—is a problem in the heart!
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing about.
Salvation is what we receive, not what we achieve.
When you know that God’s hand is in everything, you can leave everything in God’s hand.
The value of life is computed not by its duration, but by its donation.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over but showing it principally in one spot.
Words to live by are just words unless you live by them!! You have to walk the talk.
Its easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles your feathers!!
Some of us are like wheelbarrows----Only useful when pushed, and very easily upset!
If you think you are too small to be effective---you have never been in bed with a mosquito!
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today!
The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd.
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expect a receipt!
Change is inevitable----except from a vending machine!
Bibles that are falling apart usually belong to people who are not.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows----It empties today of its strength.
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
A clear conscience is a good pillow.
Faith is not belief without proof—But trust without reservations.
Don’t let your tongue cut your throat!!
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another—but to see one another through. You can't make a fact out of an opinion by raising your voice.
Everyone starts from scratch, but not everyone keeps on scratching!
Some people are so indecisive that their favorite color is plaid.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.