PSALM 7-9 / ACTS 17:1-15

“What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy."

― Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

JOB 1-3 / ACTS 7:1-19

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”

― Vince Lombardi Jr.

JOB 1-3 / ACTS 7:1-19

" There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

Revised

Esther 7-10 / Acts 6

“Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.”

― Napoleon Hill

1 KINGS 12-13 / LUKE 24:1-35

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

― J.K. Rowling

2 SAMUEL 17-18 / LUKE 21:1-19

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2 SAMUEL 15-16 / LUKE 20:27-47

“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”

― Roy T. Bennett

2 SAMUEL 13-14 / LUKE 20:1-26

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 SAMUEL 1-3 / LUKE 18:1-27

"But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”

― John Wesley