The Bible:
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. (1John 5:3)"]
// Quotee: Corrie Ten Boom
Text[1]=["",""I’ve not the slightest doubt that my commitment to Christ has been the most significant and influential event of my life."
The Bible:
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. (2 Timothy 1:12)"]
// Quotee: Sir Cliff Richard
Text[2]=["",""Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
The Bible:
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. (Matthew 10:26)"]
// Quotee: Thomas Jefferson
Text[3]=["",""We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us."
The Bible:
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. (Hebrews 9:27)"]
// Quotee: Billy Graham
Text[4]=["",""It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
The Bible:
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. (Isaiah 55:2)"]
// Supplier: George Horace Lorimer
Text[5]=["",""Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person."
The Bible:
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13)"]
// Quotee: Kristen Goeser
Text[6]=["",""Not a leaf has ever fluttered down into the dust and perished there, but has helped to enrich the earth’s soil; and not a lowly life in all the past had been lived purely and holy, but the world today is a little richer and better for it."
The Bible:
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. (1 Peter 1:15)"]
// Quotee: George Eliot
Text[7]=["",""In every person, that comes near you, look for what is good and strong, honour that; rejoice in it, and as you can imitate it"
The Bible:
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Philippians 4:8)"]
// Quotee: John Ruskin
Text[8]=["",""If we wait till we’re ready, we never do anything."
The Bible:
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. (Hebrews 6:4-6)"]
// Quotee: Eleanor Roosevelt
Text[9]=["",""Life is not long and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it should be spent."
The Bible:
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:14)"]
// Quotee: Dr Johnson
Text[10]=["",""Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished?"
The Bible:
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. (Luke 14:28-30)"]
// Quotee: Christina Rossetti
Text[11]=["","When someone remonstrated with the great man that he had forgiven an enemy, he replied:
"Our business is to get rid of our enemies. The best way I know to turn an enemy into a friend is not to shoot him, but forgive him."
The Bible:
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. (Matthew 5:44)"]
// Quotee: Abraham Lincoln
Text[12]=["",""A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than life spent doing nothing."
The Bible:
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. (Proverbs 6:9-11)"]
// Quotee: George Bernard Shaw
Text[13]=["",""I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices, but reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about ‘beautiful mornings’ as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it."
The Bible:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)"]
// Quotee: Oscar Hammerstein
Text[14]=["",""Make the best of everything, think the best of everybody, and hope the best for yourself."
The Bible:
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. (Luke 10:27)"]
// Quotee: George Stephenson
Text[15]=["",""Love of books is your pass to the greatest, the purest and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other creations are gone. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live."
The Bible:
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)"]
// Quotee: Anthony Trollope
Text[16]=["","When asked where he was willing to go: "I will go anywhere - so long as it is forward."
The Bible:
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. (Isaiah 6:8)"]
// Quotee: David Livingstone
Text[17]=["","Stevenson endured much illness in his life but wrote this personal prayer: "Give us grace and strength to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies."
The Bible:
For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. (Romans 14:18)"]
// Quotee: Robert Louis Stevenson
Text[18]=["","Tolkien's answer when feeling low: "Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road, or a secret gate."
The Bible:
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psalms 30:5)"]
// Quotee: J.R.R Tolkien
Text[19]=["","Beethoven wrote this prayer when he realised that his deafness could not be cured: "O God, give me strength to be victorious over myself for nothing may chain me to this life. O raise me from these dark depths for Thou alone understandest and can inspire me."
The Bible:
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. (Isaiah 58:11)"]
// Quotee: Beethoven
Text[20]=["",""I am not young enough to know everything."
The Bible:
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3)"]
// Quotee: JM Barrie
Text[21]=["","When Ford was asked, on his Golden Wedding day, for the secret of a happy married life. He said: "The formula is the same that I have always used for making cars – just stick to one model."
The Bible:
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (Ephesians 5:25)"]
// Quotee: Henry Ford
Text[22]=["",""This world is God’s World. We have free choice - we can obey or disobey. If we disobey, we bring trouble on ourselves and on other people."
The Bible:
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. (1 Samuel 15:22)"]
// Quotee: Wilbert Awdrey
Text[23]=["","The first part of the prayer of St Francis is well known:
"Where there is hatred let me sow love."
Not so well known perhaps is the second verse from which come these lines:
"Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."
The Bible:
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. (John 15:5)"]
// Quotee: St Francis of Assisi
Text[24]=["","Often remembered for his persistence despite disappointments at various times in his life. Some years after his death in 1931, his desk was opened and among the papers was a card bearing the following admonition: "When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right!"
The Bible:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12:40)"]
// Quotee: Thomas Edison
Text[25]=["",""Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
The Bible:
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)"]
// Quotee: Charles Dickens
Text[26]=["",""Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
The Bible:
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. (Isaiah 26:3)"]
// Quotee: Sir James Dewar
Text[27]=["","Two hundered years after he wrote them Von Goethe's eight requisites for contented living are still worth reading:
"Health enough to make work a pleasure;
Wealth enough to support your needs;
Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them;
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them;
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbour;
Faith enough to make real the things of God;
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
The Bible:
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)"]
// Quotee: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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