“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.” EndsSelfChallengesAbilityAchieveGreatnessPromiseOvercomingDifficultyTragedyTendenciesSelf RelianceRelianceRise AboveIndicationSabbathUnbeliefAdequacy Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.” MadePlayRolesComedyFatePromiseTragedyCastsUglyDucklingsUgly Duckling Author:Marie Dressler
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.” LifeInspirationalPlayDreamLife IsMotherSongFightingOpportunityGamesRealizingChallengesAcceptingStruggleAdventureInspirational LifeDutySorrowPromiseBenefitsOvercomingTragedyLuckDareAdmireAdmiringCalcuttaLife Is An AdventureWorth Fighting ForBest MotherAging GracefullyLife DreamLife OpportunityLife Is A DreamLife Is PreciousLife Is A GameLife Is GreatLife Is A StruggleHow Precious Life Is Author:Mother Teresa
“Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over” PeopleTwoDreamMightGreaterShareCouplePromiseTragedyMaking Love Author:Nicholas Sparks
“She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.” IfsMenWantMayTurnsFoundLanguageWaterCan DoSecretBreakBloodReturnPromiseSpringTragedyDepthForestsTunesGoddessFar AwayTailsGreeceWaterfallsChristendomFaithlessFishy Author:Philippa Gregory
“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.” CharacterProblemLife IsPrayerImpossiblePromiseMajorsCriticismTestsTragedyTestedDelayedUnansweredMajor ChangeUnanswered Prayers Book:What on Earth Am I Here For? Source: What on Earth Am I Here For?