Favorite Quotes

A few favorite quotes:

"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life" Proverbs 4:23. For me it means that you should take care to keep your heart pure by refusing to absorb the impure messages of the world in the TV, movies, Internet sites, and some novels of today. It also means not placing yourself in situations where compromise is possible. Your heart should be kept protected. If you're single and waiting for God to make His way clear in terms of a future spouse, this quote means to be faithful to that future spouse, and guard your heart, not placing yourself in circumstances where you may be emotionally or physically too intimate with someone, because that person is probably not God's chosen person for you, and most likely they will marry someone else one day. This quote also means to guard your heart from getting ahead of yourself in God's timing. Trust in God, see others as brothers and sisters who will probably be married to someone else one day, back away from unhealthy opposite-gender attention, and wait on God for HIS PERFECT TIMING. :) God blesses obedience.

"A Christian is a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps." -E.Z. Mckenzie

"There will be provocations to test the temper; it is by meeting these in the right spirit that the Christian graces are developed."
"The love of Christ, manifested in unselfish ministry, will be more effective in reforming the evildoer than the sword or the court of justice."
"To every deed there is an unseen witness. The very motives of his heart are open to divine inspection. Every act, every word, every thought, is as distinctly marked as though there were only one person in the whole world, and the attention of heaven were centered upon him."

"In the humblest of duties and lowliest positions of life, we may walk and work with Jesus." -Steps to Christ

"It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." -Sir Francis

"No amount of talking penetrates as deeply as example"

"It is in working to spread the good news of salvation that we are brought near to the Savior" -Desire of Ages

"Christ is the Head of this house, the unseen Guest at every meal, the silent Listener to every conversation" I should hang that quote in the dining room! :D

"Love should be seen in the looks and manners and heard in the tones of the voice" Wow, a key in child guidance! :D

"I know that in the long run I will be thankful I have not spent my time giving emotions to men that they did not rightfully own" -Emotional Purity

"When you experience intimacy without commitment, you are playing with the heart of a fellow brother in Christ, and you will violate emotional purity." -Emotional Purity

"Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another" Remember the quote before you're tempted to gossip! :)

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper and nothing more" Amen!