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Where reason cannot wade, faith must win... - Thomas Watson, the Great Puritan.......... Isaiah 50:10 "Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God."

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Virtue is the sun of our world, and has for its course a good conscience. She is so beautiful that she finds favor with both God and man. Nothing is lovable but virtue, nothing detestable but vice. A person's capacity and greatness are to be measured by his virtue, not by his fortune. She alone is all sufficient. She makes people lovable in life, memorable after death... - Baltasar GracianColossians 3:12-14 "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."

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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself... - RALPH WALDO EMERSONHebrews 12:1 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."

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God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength. Are you asking God to give you life and liberty and joy? He cannot, unless you will accept the strain. Immediately you face the strain, you will get the strength...- Oswald ChambersJohn 16:33 "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

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Times are what they are, and you have to find your niche in the moment and not dwell on the good old days...- Karl LagerfeldJames 1:12 "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him."

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Marriage is perpetually interesting; it is the novel that most of us are living in... -Katie Roiphe, author of UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS.... Proverbs 31:10-12 "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life."

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Kindness has converted more sinners, than zeal, eloquence or learning...- F.W. Faber Proverbsl l:l l "Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed."

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Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you die today...- James DeanProverbs

16:3 "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."

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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years...-Abraham LincolnPsalm 90:10,15,17 "The length of our days is seventy years- or

eighty, if we have strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. May the favor of he Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us-yes establish the work of our hands."

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Make your life a mission, not an intermission...- Arnold Glasgow 1 Cor

9:24,25 "Don't you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize."

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Make no judgment where you have no compassion... - Anne McCaffrey

Proverbs 4:18 "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

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No one ever got lost on a straight road...- Abraham Lincoln Colossians 2:6-8, 10

"As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in Him: Rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.. And you are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power."

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It's the silence that matters, not the applause. Anyone can have applause. But the silence, before and during the playing- that, is everything... - Maestro Vladimir Horowitz, featured as World's Greatest Pianist by NewsweekPsalm 130:5,6 "I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His Word I put my hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. I say, more than they that watch for the morning."

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Silence is the Ultimate Applause. Isn't that an absolute truth? For Artists, particularly performing ones, rapt attention is reflected by total silence. Rustling, shuffling, whispers, - all signal an audience unentranced... - Malcolm Forbes Isaiah 54:7,8,10,11 "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. 0 thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."

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There are stages in life when there is no storm, no crisis, when we do our human best; it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. If we have been learning to worship God and to trust Him, the crisis will reveal that we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence in Him. God expects His children to be so confident in Him that in any crisis, they are the reliable ones...- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His HighestMatthew 8:26 ""You of little faith, why are you so

afraid?""

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Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do...-GoetheJames 1:22-24 "Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive

yourselves. Anyone who listens to the Word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like."

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards... - Soren Kierkegaard Psalm 23:3 "He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of

righteousness, for His name's sake."

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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so... - David Grayson Isaiah 58:9 "Then you will call, and the Lord will answer. You

will cry, and He will say, `Here I Am'."

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Philippine Stock Market plunges 4%; Peso slips to 46.23:$1. Asian, Euro Stocks tumble Over Credit Crunch in USA Subprime Housing Credit Sector...- INQUIRER, August 16......Proverbs 27:23 "Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds."

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OFW remittances Up 18% vs Year Ago. Expected To Reach Over $14 Billion This Year. USA, Canada, UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Italy, Japan, Hongkong Remain Major Sources... -PDI News Report 2 Timothy 2:6 "A hard-working

farmer should receive first some of what He gathers from the field."

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RP Seen Leading Property Boom In Asia. Prices Up 14.29 vs Year Ago And Higher Compared To 13.75% in Singapore. Housing Price Boom Now Moving Towards Asia-Pacific Showing Strongest Recovery Since '97 Asian Crisis. Warnings Up That A Property Bubble Is Developing Anew in the Region... - PDI Global Property Guide Proverbs 21:5 "The Plans of those who do their best lead only to having all they need, but all who are in a hurry come only to want."

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I live in a space of thankfulness, and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That's because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it... - Oprah Winfrey Philippians 4:8 "...Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praise worthy-think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me-put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."

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Love is not blind; it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less... - Rabbi Julius Gordon 1 John 3:18 "My children, let us not love with

words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do and in truth."

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Isn't it high time someone got negative about negativity? Yes it is. Look around. The world is full of things that, according to nay-sayers, should never have happened. "Impossible". "Impractical". "No". And yet "yes". Yes, continents have been found. Yes, men have played golf on the moon. Yes, straw is being turned into biofuel to power cars. Yes, yes, yes. What does it take to turn no into yes? Curiosity. An open mind. A willingness to take risks. And, when the problem seems most insoluble, when the challenge is hardest, when everyone else is shaking their heads,-yet to be able to say: Let's Go!...- Shell Philosophy ad Philippians 3:13,14 "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."