Often progress follows failure.

To forgive others often you must first forgive yourself first.

Happiness can happen but Joy comes from the Lord.

Character is not developed in an instant.

Before you follow know where they are headed.

If you do nothing you become a nothing.

Few things enrich your life like friends.

It takes very little to be happy and less to be thankful.

Youth is overrated and old age is underrated.

It is easier to admit you are wrong to strangers than to loved ones.

Our 46th wedding anniversary ...wow... what a blessing!!!!

Often is too much for trivia but not enough for what matters.

A lifetime of love is captured one moment at a time.

Sincerity gives fresh meaning to worn out words.

Apart from Hope you are hopeless.

A penny for your thoughts or a dollar for your actions!

Recall is what you do when she hangs up on you.

Blessed is the man that uses wisdom in his youth.

A profound idea is one I had not thought of yet.

One step beyond the probable is the possibility.

Success is built on the foundations of failures.

Darkness is usually hand painted.

To see, one must open his heart.

Misery is overrated.

A hyperbole is a flattery of ideas.

Respect often grows after life.

Retirement gives you the time to do what you should have done before.

Saying “I do.” is easier than doing.

Never allow your love to be stretched thin always stretch it thick.

Nothing is quite as thorough as loneliness.

Being loved more than you deserve is everyone’s best hope.

Let go of what hurts you before it hurts someone you love.

Negative is as negative does.

Forgiveness brings moral sobriety.

It is better to force yourself to do right than to allow yourself to do wrong.

Love is a lifetime not a moment.

Concern will keep you on your toes, but worry will knock you off your feet.

Worry is a Devil’s prayer.

A splurge is a momentary excess.

Too many expectations lessen the number of celebrations.

Imagination lightens the darkness of ignorance.

Hearers believe God but disciples do what God said.

Your troubles should not lessen your faith.

Give thanks in all circumstance not for all circumstances.

In all circumstances God will guide you.

Faith provides safety like little else.

Hope is the purpose of Faith.

Trust is the vehicle that carries your Faith.

Trust needs no eyes.

Trust narrows your options.

Trust enters all lives but few embrace it.

Martyrs have terminal faith.

Terminal faith is unaltered by any circumstances.

Your reverence for God becomes the hand of all of His gifts.

Wealth enslaves those without Faith.

We are often blind to the steps of God but not to His purposes.

Trust brings a special quality to your love.

The desire of a Christian is not to gain power but to unleash the power in other believers.

If you trust God you have peace, if not, you are forever troubled.

There are more lies than truths in the world but only the truths will count.

Trust is the hinge that the door of love is hung.

Resolve is the friend of purpose.

You cannot suppress another who lives in Grace.

You cannot earn righteousness it must be given to you.

Only the ignorant are faultless.

What you believe will separate you or unite you.

The difference between a believer and a disciple is passion.

Darkness is the light of evil.

Trust is a window to view love.

Suspicion is the beginning of fear.

A man walks in the light or darkness he chooses.

Be zealous not for what you want, but for what you ought!

Are you more willing to sacrifice for what you want than what He wants?

Private faith seldom bothers Satan.

Are you willing to be willing?

May your hope be thorough!

There are no unintended people, all of us came with a purposes and possibilities.

Life is a gift; it is what we do with it that will be measured in the end.

It is those who know their way, that startle the confused of this world.

Understanding your failures, may be your greatest success.

Jesus did not ask why do you persecute my people but asked why do you persecute Me!

Love wants the best, expects the best, and gives the best.

Debt is mortgaging the future for the present but so is marriage.

Love, like a fire, must be tended too.

Work is a job marriage is a career.

May your hope exceed your expectations!

Forgiveness is the first step towards forgiveness.

Appreciate the giver more than the gift.

Stress is requiring more of yourself than God does.

Men say things will work out; women want to know if that means before supper.

Good marriages are a competition of giving without keeping score.

Taxes are the cost of government failure.

Confrontations are necessary hardships for progress.

Temptation is eyes over will.

Expectations often contain the desires of others.

Misery loves company but company does not love misery.

Mother’s day is a reminder of our dependence on others!

Everyone had a mother except Eve.

The tears of a mother are stronger the than powers of habit.

Whatever you do effects your mother more any others.

Thank your mother for your success and yourself for your failures.

Problems are opportunities for your faith.

The roots of every problem are in the Spiritual dimension.

A smile is vacation from personal misery.

Miracles trouble the unbeliever.

To be in control you must have first surrendered.

Hope lessens the grip of ignorance.

You must believe in what you believe.

Achieving faith is a gift of God not the reward of your works.

What is common in our society is not normal!

The Spiritual world is where causes are found.

A normal Christian is an abnormal person.

We tend to doubt our possibilities.

Doubt is the slayer of miracles and the beginning of depression.

Faith moves mountains but it takes character to move men.

Our perception of our faith is our faith.

Getting forgiveness is more possible than likely.

A 2 by 4 is a tree that lost its bark.

You, are the one you have the most control over but tend to control the least.

If others would do as I say it would be easier to do as I should.

Bravery is the containment of fear.

Today is my fine grandson, Ben's, birthay a big "3"

Doing good to others always provides a good conscience.

He was as nervous as a tree in a dog pound.

Love is a lifetime journey into hope, expectation, and forgiveness.

The richest man in the world is a electrician who moonlights as a plumber!

Now a days more folks are tiring than retiring.

When you are a leader respect is easier to get than to give.

Bureaucracy is a force that tries to keep the inevitable from becoming a reality.

Government creates its own welfare system.

If you are inactive the world paves over you.

Singleness and loneliness are completely different.

Skydivers are just praying for a round trip.

I just had a cracked thought. What if Humpty Dumpty had an HMO?

A middle school student explained that teachers are like nonviolent parents.

Is your will power on a diet?

When life squeezes you they should get a flow of goodness.

Bureaucracy is a process of inhibiting anything that is good or necessary.

Taxation is progressive enslavement.

Stupider is because stupid does.

Politicians whitewash their darkest truths.

It is bad enough not to be able to read the Bible in public schools it seem they don’t read it in divinity schools either.

You may have the same family name as another but you are responsible for your own behaviors.

The rebuke of a friend is harder to take, than the hardened stare of a stranger.

When we hurt another we expect the generous flow of mercy, but when we are offended we look for the flow of blood.

God’s IM’s are in the Bible and He Twitters the Book of Proverbs to you.

Whatever you know He has always known.

Your failures help you be mindful of your successes.

You are responsible for your excesses as well as your short coming.

Hope is not unanchored optimism nor is hopelessness grounded pessimism.

Plans are often the beginning of imagination.

Many folks would rather feel bad than do right.