“The past is a memory, the future is a dream and we only live in the moment. It is how we live in the moment that matters.... It [the future] is determined by the will of God and the choices we make.”
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“We often value the wrong things. We can spend our lives working to surround ourselves with things that don't matter. We can sacrifice the things that do matter, to gain those things that don't.”
--Dan Arnold (Bear Creek)
"For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."
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“A man gets to thinking and fears about tomorrow and most of the time that's all it amounted to—fear.”
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“Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's a glorious dream in the soul of man.”
--Wilfred A. Peterson
"For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine…
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“The mountains, with their aspens and pines framed by snowcapped peaks, had been like a balm to his soul.”
A quotation that is a favorite of mine, and often comes to my…
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“Work helps me put my troubles aside.”
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“He always seemed two baths short of Saturday.”
--Cliff Hudgins (The Weathervane Ranch)
"How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!"
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“But to think and brood and grieve would be fatal. Let him watch and listen. Nothing in that wilderness was trivial.”
--Zane Grey (Stranger From the Tonto)
"Give ear and hear my voice, listen and hear my speech."
--Isaiah 28:23 (NKJV)
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Are we hearing? Are we to the point where we are unable to hear? For many, the ears have grown…
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“I guess a man doesn't remember the 'howdys' as much as the 'so longs.'”
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“Things are changin', me and other folk...ain't much more than relics of a time that's gone...and it ain't comin' back.”
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“Bein' stupid ain't a crime in this country. If it was, there'd be more folks behind bars than what's walkin' down the streets.”
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Echoes From the Campfire
“There's nothin' else you can do, 'cept stand yer ground and do what's right.”
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“Hard work...was not something to be feared.”
--Elmer Kelton (Llano River)
"Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear."
--Philippians 2:12 (NLT)
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"Life is…
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“Seems to me as though day-to-day events often have a tendency to simply lie in wait for our unknowing, blind arrival, ready to pounce on us like wild, stalking animals.”
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“To live a long time is nothing, to live a long time wisely is something.”
--Louis L'Amour (The Californios)
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“The worst punishment God could inflict on the world would be to give people everything they wished for.”
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“Survival is determined by the honed skills of the one cutting a trail.”
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“Here the news that forced him to think of himself as a man somehow related to and responsible to his kind. He had gone to and fro over the trails of the desert, and many adventures had befallen him. He had lived them, with the force the desert seemed to have taught him, and then had gone his way down the lonely trails, absorbed in his secret.”
--Zane Grey (Wanderer of the Wasteland)
"Who led you through that…
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“The desert or mountain man was forever lifting his eyes to the peaks or to the stars; it was no wonder that men of the wilderness knew so much about the flight of birds and the habits of animals. In cities a man's eyes were on the ground, or rarely above eye level.”
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“I love to see some of the gnarled old trees; cedars and bristle-cone pines are favorites of mine, for so often they live where it doesn't seem possible to live. They grow right out of rocks, gnarled and twisted and old . . . but strong, stronger than anything but time, and they are part of time.”
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