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“One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.” - Philip Slater

“The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.” - Albert Einstein

“Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain.” - Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:10 NJKV)

"The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools." - Sir James Russell Lowell

"The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America." - John Adams

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Pain

"1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given" - Author Unknown

“If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.” - Angelus Silesius

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams

"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." --Native American Proverb

"We are called upon not to be successful but to be faithful." - Mother Teresa

"I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what He likes. However imperfect we are, He writes beautifully." - Mother Teresa

"The essence of sin is a shift from God-centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self." - Henry Blackaby

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart" - Helen Keller

"No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations." - Wayne Gretzky

"I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ." - Apostle Paul (Philemon v6, NIV)

"In calm waters, every ship has a good captain." - Swedish Proverb

"Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success." - Henry Ford

"If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough." - Lowell Lundstrum

"Trust the Process" - Many an Insight / CREDO Team Member or graduate.

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will" - Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India

"The Bible is like a lion; it does not need to be defended; just let it loose and it will defend itself". --Martin Luther

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life." -- Jesus (John 3:16, NASB)

"We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it." - George Washington

"To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint." - unknown

"We have staked the whole future of American Civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments." - James Madison, known as the father of the U. S. Constitution.

"In every place where you find the imprints of man's feet, there am I." - The Talmud

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"So much has been given me, I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied." -  Helen Keller

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless." - Betrand Russel, famous athiest

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!" - Corrie Ten Boom, Nazi Death Camp sufferer

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley, author

"If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me." - John Bunyan, author

"Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic." - Vance Havner

"The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it." - William James, Psychologist