We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.


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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR
A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON
They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT
Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON