Pithy Quotes

Here is a collection of quotes that I have posted on Facebook in the last month. I thought all of them together might make a good idea for a blog entry. So here they are. They are in no paticular order. Some are pretty insightful. I don't claim credit for all of them. Feel free to use them youself. Read and enjoy.

• Making 50 friends in one year is not a miracle. Having one good friend for 50 years is.
  
  
• If you don’t get closure from your past, you could end up pointing your anger at someone new.
  
  
• Before you tune someone out based on their social status, remember Jesus was a homeless construction worker.
  
  
• There's always time for love; you just have to move a few things around.
  
  
• You don’t have to answer every e-mail, text, or phone call. Why would you want to?
  
  
• People disagree with me saying that you can live a worry-free life. Hmmm. I’m not going to worry about it. Max Lucado
  
  
• When working with people always remember that everyone is afraid of something, loves something, wants something & has lost something.
  
  
• If you don’t pick a direction soon, life will hand you one.
  
  
• Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You're still here aren't you?
  
  
• The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved - Mother Teresa
  
  
• Having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a human need… and it means you are loved.
  
  
• If you draw closer to God, He promises to draw closer to you - (James 4:8).
  
  
• Until you learn to appreciate the little things God has given you, He has the big things on hold.
  
  
• Get more familiar with the scriptures. God has made some promises you have overlooked.
  
  
• Never look too thirsty. Maintain quiet confidence.
  
  
• People who want approval the most usually get the least; and people who need approval the least usually get the most.
  
  
• If you hold a grudge, the grudge is holding you.
  
  
• Be smart today. Beat the joy busters who derail happiness.
  
  
• If there was no God there would be no atheists.
  
  
• You don’t necessarily have to cheat to ruin your relationship. Just stop paying attention and over-schedule your life.
  
  
• It's not that I don't like you. I'm just not dealing with your drama anymore.
  
  
• Immature love wants a good time. Mature love wants a lifetime.
  
  
• Seeing the same people in the same nightclubs every week means you are stuck in a rut.
  
  
• I don’t need to have a certain number of friends. But I do need friends that I can be certain of. Big difference.
  
  
• A woman's heart should be so close to God that if a man wants her, he would have to seek God first.
  
  
• If you always keep wishing for more, you will always feel poor.
  
  
• Humility. It doesn't mean that you should think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less often.
  
  
• If they are talking to you about other people behind their back, guess who they are talking about when you’re not around?
  
  
• There's something about ungratefulness and complaining that pushes great circumstances away.
  
  
• Never allow your self-worth or self-esteem to be decided by the opinions of others. Someone asked Billy Graham once, "How do you handle criticism?" He replied, "The same way I handle praise from men; I don't give either one any undue regard."
  
  
• Don't grieve too long when you lose something. Everything you lose comes back to you in a different form. Eve lost Able, but she had another son whose name was Seth - which means "substitute" or "appointed one" (Gen. 4:25).
  
  
• People who keep waiting for the perfect moment to begin, get beat by those who have already begun. Get moving and do something.
  
  
• Being sad and crying does not change your situation. Getting angry and doing something about it DOES.
  
  
• Many people check the scale weekly hoping for weight loss, but do very little to change their diet. Many people go to church each week hoping God will help them, but never follow the instructions from the sermon or God's Word. You've got to do something.
  
  
• Don't run from your problems. You cannot heal what you do not confront.
  
  
• The Lord has a great plan for your life to prosper you and not harm you - Jeremiah 29:11
  
  
• Being positive all the time will not solve everything, but it will tick off enough people to be worth the effort.
  
  
• Never be too needy. It attracts bad relationships, bad deals, swindlers and con men.
  
  
• While you are sitting around doing nothing, someone, somewhere is practicing and preparing, and when they meet up with you, they will win.
  
  
• There’s someone in the hospital begging to have the chance you have right now. Don’t miss your moment or waste your life.
  
  
• To stay happy, flee from angry people. Anger is one letter short of danger.
  
  
• Play fair. If you jerk people around because you have the upper hand, God will jerk you around because HE has the upper hand.
  
  
• A man who has no honor can never see that attribute in others.
  
  
• Have NO friends who deny you the right to grow.
  
  
• Perfectionism is self abuse to the highest degree. If everything has to be right…. something isn’t.
  
  
• Either be motivated or be miserable. CHOOSE.
  
  
• God, thank You for walking with me throughout my day and for staying awake when I sleep. You never slumber or sleep (Psalms 121:3-4)