Character is who you are when are who you are.
You can have the right principles but if you have bad character little good can come from them.
Principles are what you stand by; character is what you do.
Character is who you are; reputation is who others think you are.
Character without principles are like “sounding brass and tinkling cymbals”.
If you get your principles and/or your character only from this world and from man, you will fail morally and spiritually.
The right principles and character are only found in God’s Word, and the power to live them in Jesus.

Faith is the wrong thing is the wrong thing.
Faith in God is the only Faith that really matters.
Faith never expects the results of sin to be less that they should be.
Forgiveness is a special form of Faith.
Faith will not relieve the consequence of sin; It only to remove the final results.
Faith is seeing reality differently.
If love is not the basis of your Faith…you lack Faith.

The world may still condemn you but God’s pardon is final and complete.
It is easier on you to be happy than to contribute to your own unhappiness by filling you live with yourself.
Your life will always be flavored by your compassion or the lack thereof.
Selling something is a matter of convincing other how you felt about it when you bought it.
Strive to be more valuable than important.
The amount of selfishness in a marriage will always determine the degree of happiness it contains.
Progress is measured not by how far you have come, but what attitude you kept.
A Selfish man is always alone and always lonely.

Wisdom is more accurate predicting the past than the future.

Sin will rule where it is allowed to reside.

An ocean sized heart could barely contain a drop of the love that Jesus has for you.

Sin is pre-despair, delayed disappointment and suppressed guilt, all wrapped into one.

Anger is pouring acid onto happiness.

Tradition is one way of staving off progress.

Pain is designed to help you avert a tragedy.

Wishing requires no commitment.

Misery awaits your unforgiving heart.

To step beyond tomorrow you will have to learn from today.

Wishing and wanting bears no sweat!

Welfare is watered by the sweat of others.

Charity is a blessing from the sweat of others.

Missionaries are rich in “sweat equity” invested in the souls of others.

The treasures in the heart of God exceed the wealth of the entire world.

God will plan your life; all that is required of you is willingness.

Are you busy protesting the persecution or attesting to the blessing?

Depression often comes from the wrong impression.

Greed is when your wants exceed your grasp.
Stress tends the garden of doubts.Greed is keeping what should be shared.
Weariness comes when you are too busy to be happy.
Greed causes more pain than gain.
It is when a man has too much that he is most vulnerable to failure in other areas of his life.
Success is far more addicting that failure.

Laughter refreshes a sadden heart, makes a frown progress to smile, all while lifting the burdens at hand.
He who learns to laugh at himself will never run out or material!
A smile it the first sign that you are beginning to doubt your doubts.
Laughter shatters depression.
A smile is a hug from one heart to another.
A prayer brings a smile to God’s heart and is the beginning of hope in your own.
Laughter is just an excessive smile.

Helping hands can patch the holes in the hope of the hopeless.
Friends do what friends must do because friends are friends.
Neighbors do what they can do for neighbors because they are neighbors
Christians do what they can do for other Christians because they are family;
Christians do what they can do for their enemies because they might be family someday.
The impact of love exceeds the expiations of both the giver and the receiver.
If you could explain God, if you understood God, or His way of doing things, you don’t know Him at all.

Genuine love will erode selfishness.
Love will bring blossoms to parts of your love that you never knew could grow or you never knew were even there.
Neglect is the cancer of love.
The sum total of all charity is love in action.
Without love you will condemn to live a life without purpose, possibility, or perspective, all while leave no meaningful impact.
Love in marriage tends die from lack of attention tone another.
Neglect is passive abuse but abuse nonetheless.

A government that gives more than it receives goes bankrupt and person who gives more than they receive is a blessing.
Love is a self-perpetuating blessing.
Blessings are a result not a reason.
Bless someone today who has not clue it came from you.
God has blessed you more than you deserve and loved doing it!
Counting blessing or counting troubles…hum… which should I be doing today?
Kindness brings a blessing that flavors the rest of your life.

A lifetime of love ends with a smile of contentment.
Marriage is where moments become memories, days become keepsakes, and years become legacies.
Marriage is a lifetime commitment…until sharing becomes belonging.
Marriage is where you give everything you have to gain everything you could not have had any another way.
Real love only grows as it gives.
Holding the heart of a loved one is greatest privilege life offers you.

Lying to oneself often result in the most painful consequences.
In order to profit from life, one must invest in others while disciplining themselves.
Forgiveness is a gift from your heart to the soul of another.
Sin is a pre-existing condition that only God can cure.
The optimist only sees what can go right; the pessimist can only see what can go wrong; the rest of us must live between the both of the possibilities.
No one gets through life by themselves we all need others to be successful with our own lives.

Marriage should be bursting with premeditated love.
It is easy to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes; try walking a mile wearing someone else’s heart.
A casual Christian is missing the passion of living for a purpose.
The less you do right the more baggage you must carry.
True love gives more than it takes and shares more than it could ever have had by itself.
Marriage is love being reborn with conjoined hearts.
Is your love of God greater than your love for sin?

Character is a combination of purpose, persistence and progress towards your personhood.
Be at least as honest as you want others to be and even a bit more.
Always be more honest as you expect other to be and purpose to be more honest than you want them to be.
Whenever you do less than you should have; you suffer more than you would have.
Those who flourish in flexibility are likely to get tightly tangled.
The way to Heaven is a straight and purposeful way; the way to Hell is full of exciting looking twisty turns and well-lit dead ends.
Only a fool gets excited about his own foolish ways.

Carol not well today bad, bad, cold or flu we do not know yet…thanks for your prayers.

Success without a purpose is a sidetrack.
Love without mercy is selfishness.
Compromise in marriage is the hardest part of love but often the most meaningful.
In order to be useful in life keep your eyes open, your mouth closed and your heart full of compassion.
A helping hand will not hinder.
Your legacy is not what you said you will do but what you have done.
The generosity of a hardened heart is meagerly.
The fish that got away is a conversation the one I caught came to stay.

Respect is earned through the sweat of adversity.
Love generously, that is what love is for.
Learn to fail…falling forward.
A man should not rule a family; he should be raising a family.
Never doubt what God has done for you, is now doing for you, or has promised He will do for you in the future.
Doubt is the delight of worry.

Don’t become a victim of your own expectations.
Never judge yourself by what you have done but judge yourself by how many blessing you have received and by how many smile you have given.
Self-doubt becomes contagious; infecting those you love the most.
Love is what betters the worst into the best.
Push yourself to do right but refuse to drag your wrongs another inch.
Never allow yourself to doubt what God can do with you or for you.
Self-doubt is a self-inflicted barrier to success.

Doing good is the best thing you can do.
Confidence is a result of accomplished courage.
Love demands more of itself than it does on the one loved.
Failure in not knowing, God nothing else is matters.
Time will manage you if you choose not to manage it.
Never settle for a pre-fab life in a brick and mortar world!
Women are unpredictable because men are untrainable.

A moment with God is more valuable than hours by yourself.
The fruit of a pessimist is more predictable than the many fruits of optimism.
Despondency is the decaying of hope.
Keep the light on in your life darkness is all about you and creeping in where it can.
Rest and laziness come from different motivations…or lack thereof.
When you see a snail in the passing lane speed up!
As a Christian, your value in life is because you are a son/daughter of God not because of what you could have done, but who you are.

Love the one who loves you more than you are entitled to be loved.
Love the one who says by your side while others are walking away.
Love the one who gives you more than you can give in return.
Love the one who tells you the truth, when the others in your life...will not.
Love the One who is here to rescue your soul more than him who is here to rescue your body.
Christian, you are endowed with enough love to love others enormously.
Love, does not count the efforts involved, in bringing blessings to another.

Pity the man who has nothing to live for but himself.
Pity the man who has chosen wealth over health.
Pity the man who thinks he knows it all but knows so very little.
Pity the man who covets getting over giving.
Pity the man who has all that he wants but little of what he needs.
Pity the man who has rejected God for in the end he will have none.

Fortitude brings aptitude to a useful magnitude.
Diligence is what makes the average person more successful than the dilatorily, though more talented.
Persevence is the perspiration of ideas.
“He that endureth to the end shall be saved!”…a tough thought isn’t it?
“This good work which I began in you I will also complete.”…is an easier thought to digest...yet both are correct.
Love looks for way to help the one loved be successful even if it is at their own expense.

Carol is making slow but meaningful progress, each day, at a speed that would bring sweat to a snail.

Truth is designed to rescue others not to batter them with your anger.
It is good to be good but it is better to become better.
Delivering truth with arrogance is the ultimate hypocrisy.
Love shares truth, pride smashed truth into lives, hammering them with their own insecurities.
Truth was not given to be “a line in the sand” so you can be right; but it was meant to be a foundation to build better lives.
Truth can never justify hatred.
Jesus said “love your enemies as yourselves and to do good, to those who do you wrong” what inconvenient truth that is.

Greed is when needs are bypassed and one has a full grasp on their wants only.
Experience is the hardest way to learn, what someone else already knows.
A good heart without a good head profits little…a good head without a good heart profits not at all.
Experience is what happens to you, with what happened to you.
The only true wisdom is to learn what God knows.
Wisdom leads you to understanding and understanding opens the doors of possibilities.
The mountain you have climbed becomes the foundation of what you can become.

The distance you put between yourself and other is likely more fear than miles.
The beauty of attraction is that it draws you to someone who has what you have not achieved yet or did not know you wanted.
For a Christian the “fork in the road” is where you get to choose what is next in your life; God has already chosen to be with you either way you.
The accumulation of the choices you make, in life, become the memories of who you are and what you were.
You become the first victim of your own bitterness but unfortunately not the last.

A friend is someone who dries your tears from the inside out.
Friends have two bodies with one heart.
A friends is someone who cares even when they don’t feel like it; and gives when others are taking away.
A friend not only walks a mile in your shoes but tries to make them fit as well.
If Jesus is not your friend nothing else really matters.
The quietness of a friend overshadows the blare of your enemies.
Friendship requires loyalty, time, and effort, to succeed.
A friend is someone who loves us unworthily and we do the same for them.

Start planning your pre-memories for this New Year…now.
When build your walls to block off evil, this year, be careful you don’t block out the light for your soul in the process.
One can never start over and correct a result; but he can start anew and expect a new ending.
The success of your ministry is measured by how few people need help when you are gone.
An argument is a conversation with anger.
Learn to pray beyond what you can believe.

Generosity is a learned gift. Generosity is like a boomerang; it finds a way to return to you. Be generous with your love and stingy with your hatred. Tithing is a pre-blessing. Generosity and happiness are twins, one is to be shared, and the other is to be coveted.The true purpose of wealth is generosity. One reaps what he sows, so sow generously, and reap generosity. One way you “store up riches in Heaven” is by your generosity here on earth. Giving is one of the best ways to gain, enjoy, and continue wealth. In order to enjoy what you have, you need to give what you can.

Life is a measured by the total of all the decisions I made minus the ones I could have made.
In life, every day is a “new beginning” where we write and rewrite out hopes and dreams.
Understanding why someone loves me is a thrilling journey into futility.
May this New Year be seen through the “rose colored glasses” of possibility rather than from the “stained glasses of disappointment”.
Courage s is choosing to do what is right when others are choosing to do what is wrong.
Greatness is choosing to step through the door of potential that is open to others, who decided to wait or enter not at all.
May this New Year bring you more blessing than expect and bring out more good in you, than you knew, you had.