The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Henry Ward Beecher
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet. 'Not always,' I countered. 'Yes, alw... RUTA SEPETYS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions." Henry Ward Beecher HENRY WARD BEECHER Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher. HENRY WARD BEECHER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions. PARUL WADHWA Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people? ONYI ANYADO - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to... DREW HOUSTON The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is ex... ONYI ANYADO 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect ch... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend... CRAIG GROESCHEL Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history AMY TAN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck. PARUL WADHWA I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa... TOMMY DONBAVAND I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... C. JOYBELL C. I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha... JOHN MASEFIELD We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that.... JOHN GREEN Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. DOUGLAS ADAMS The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizab... DOUGLAS ADAMS God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. DOUGLAS ADAMS Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE He created us for adventure, not ease. MARY E. DEMUTH You learned right away that applause sounds like love. AVA DELLAIRA ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been foun... DOUGLAS ADAMS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha... HENRY WARD BEECHER This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. JOHN WYCLIFFE Trust might be the only solution. NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. HENRY WARD BEECHER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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clocks, they must be occasionally ... HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o... HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse... HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo... HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h... HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ... HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows. HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th... HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and
animals. Some seem to smile; some hav... HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers,
we shall never have a garden withou... HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou... HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y... HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds... HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is! HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things... HENRY WARD BEECHER