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As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace. – Larry Riemersma
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people. – Thomas Davidson
Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility. – Dejan Stojanovic
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. – Michael Caine
Before you go to bed tonight ask yourself one thing, "How much junk food did I eat and drink today?"...then say your prayers. -Johnny The Walker – Johnny Wowk
Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll. – Billy Madison
Blame someone else and get on with your life. – Alan Woods
Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body. – Dejan Stojanovic
C'est en s'engageant dans l'action que l'on bat la peur. – Abderrahman Hassi
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. – Gary Sinise
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural. – Alastair Reid
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song. – Will Durant
Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. – Epictetus
Countries that try to spread their ideologies by force, be it religion, socialism, capitalism, democracy or something else, will be overwhelmed by the human and economic cost of conflicts. Those countries will lag behind other countries that are focusing on developing their economies and advancing their interests via global partnerships and trade. – Med Jones
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. – Michael J. Gelb
Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that. – Anthon St Maarten
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. – Peter Gabriel
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. – The Laws of Manu
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. – John Green
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. – Confucius, Analects, XV.24
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. – Pythagoras
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. – H. Jackson Browne

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