Oliver Cromwell had a motto - he who ceases to be better ceases to be good.
Your best is always good enough with the Lord, so be and do your best...
“Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.” — George Lucas
“A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a lifemate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.” — Denis Waitley
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.” — Katharine Hepburn
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” — William James
DETERMINE YOUR WHY AND PASSION WILL FOLLOW...
"Sometimes you just have to communicate and the problem will be solved"
"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
"Faith makes life possible. Hope makes life workable. Love makes life beautiful."
"When we speak of the Bible's authority, we refer to its property as the Word of God to obligate its readers or hearers to entire submission. The Bible has authority as the rule for faith (what man is to believe) and behavior (what man is to do)." - Beeke and Smalley
"It is not always the case that individuals are comprehensive and consistent in following through their implications, and it is important not to impute a belief in those implications where they are in fact denied by an individual." Sinclair B. Ferguson, The Whole Christ, 155. "The doctrine of divine unity in general and the doctrine of divine simplicity, in particular, are central to an orthodox Christian confession of the Trinity." ––
Scott R. Swain, The Trinity: An Introduction, 54. “What reason have I to think that God will be so favorable to such a wretch, to such a lump of sin as I am, were it not that God the Son has satisfied God the Father?” — Richard Sibbes
“There are many reasons to love the Lord Jesus. Today express your love for him because for your sake he lived his entire life, moment by moment, in loving obedience to his heavenly Father—not least when it was most difficult.” — Sinclair B. Ferguson, To Seek and to Save 140.
“Freedom is by the Spirit, because the Spirit of God works faith in me, not only to unite and knit me to Christ, but to persuade me that Christ is mine, that all his is mine, and that my debs are his.” — Richard Sibbes “The God who speaks to God within the life of the Trinity redeems and indwells us so that we too might speak to God in praise of the Trinity.” — Scott R. Swain, The Trinity: An Introduction, 50. “For his riches to be ours, and our debt to be his, there must first be union… From this until there comes a change; his righteousness is mine as if I had obeyed and done it myself; and my debts and sins are his.” — Richard Sibbes “The Reformation was about affirming the biblical gospel— the moment a person possesses saving faith, he is… declared to be just on the basis of the righteousness of Christ, and is adopted into the family of God.” — R.C. Sproul, Luther and the Reformation, 87.
"Nobody looked less like the chosen one of God than that mangled body hanging on that cross. How could it ever be? What purpose was there in this? It was salvation for men and women." —Alistair Begg
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