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THE CHURCH MOUSE SAYS:
"A person travels the world over in search of what they need, and returns home to find it." "A person can have an open mind without having holes in their head." "Some people learn from their experiences, the rest of us are lucky to survive them." "Beauty of character comes from close fellowship with God" "The 3 essentials of happiness: something to do, something to love, something to hope for." "All the BIG problems in the world could have been solved when they were small." "A person who is too big for a small job is too small for a big job." "It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge." "Bad habits, like a comfortable bed, are easy to get into but hard to get out of." "After you have heard two stories describing an auto accident, you begin to wonder about history." "There is no fool like an old fool, you just can't beat experience." "Life can be understood only backwards, but we must live it forwards." "Life is like a ladder, every step we take is either up or down." "Hope is a better traveling companion than fear." "Some people give and forgive, others get and forget." "You can preach a better sermon with your life that with your lips." "People will follow your footsteps more readily than your advice." "When a smile meets a frown, the smile wins." "As we build our ideals, they in turn build us." "A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ." "Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right make us easy to live with." "Try God and if you don't like him, the devil will take you back!!" " 'The Lord is my shepherd' is written on many more tombstones than lives." "Children have more need of models than critics." "It is easy to lose interest in a church where you have nothing invested." "Some people talk so fast and so much they often out run their facts." "A person can have an open mind without having holes in their head." "Funny, but can't learn much from a person who thinks they know it all." "No matter your lot in life, be sure to build something on it." "The correct way to measure any individuals life is not by its duration, but by its donation." "A person who lives not by what they love, but by what they hate is a weak person." "The only thing that grows without nourishment is an ego." "Conceit is an odd disease; it makes everyone sick, but the one who has it." "Good example has twice the value of good advise." "A smile adds greatly to your FACE value." "One has a right to criticize who has a heart to help." :Some people know how to live everyone's life, but their own." "Perhaps it is best not to tell all you know. you may have to respond with an encore." "Kindness is one commodity of which we should spend more than we earn." "Conscience is a still small voice tat too often finds the line busy." "The fact that you are always harping on something is no indication you are an angel." "It is not well for a person to pray cream and to live skim milk." "Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life." "God likes help when helping people." "The family altar alters the family." "Today's homes build tomorrow's world." "A fair idea put to use is better than a good idea put in the file." "Blaming your faults on your nature doesn't change the nature of your faults." "Success consists not in doing extraordinary things but doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." "A great many open minds should be closed for repairs." "Some people never do right for fear of doing wrong." "Even a fish could stay out of trouble it it kept its mouth shut." "May your troubles in the New Year be as short lived as your resolutions." "When stretching the truth, watch out for the snap back." "Tact is the gentle art of giving a person a shot in the arm without letting them feel the needle." "If we could have half our wishes, we'd probably double our trouble." "A smart person not only asks questions, but listens to the answers." "In prosperity our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends." "A person is always as young as they feel, but seldom as important." "Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible." "Some people, like ships, toot loudest when they are in a fog." "When we cease to wonder, God's secrets remain unrevealed." "What we see in this world depends largely upon what we are looking for." "Our faith is the song that helps us sing in harmony with God even when our life sometimes hits sour notes!" "It is not necessary to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine." "Hate is a prolonged form of suicide>" "A great memory does not make a mind any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature." "God will finish the good work begun in us, even if it takes eternity." "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of times our breath is taken away in living life." "To know how to wait is a great secret of success." "Even though you are on the right track, you will still get run over if you just sit there." "Optimists are often as wrong as pessimists, but they are a lot more fun." "To assure the triumph of evil, it is only necessary that good people do nothing." "A person is as big as the thing to which they give their life." "Failure is not defeat unless you stop trying." "If you were another person, would you like to be your friend?" "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." "Our thoughts make us, our words reveal us." "Some hope for the best and get the best, but still make the worst of it." "Tears are often the telescope through which we see far into heaven." "God has never put anyone in a place too small to grow." "Character is one structure you can't hire to be built." "One sees best when one looks with one's heart." "It is easier to find the road to success than it is to travel it." "In youth we learn; in age we understand." "A wise person always remains a student." "If you are always looking for the bad in people, you will surely find it." "To forgive is divine, to hold a grudge is human!" "Even if you are too deaf to hear the preacher, the church is still a good place for listening to God." "In God we trust, all others we audit." "The world will never be able to give you enough, but with God you find all that you need." "Living a fulfilled life isn't just about what you can take. It is also about what you are willing to give." "When in need do something A.S.A.P. Always Say A Prayer." "Someone once said: 'It is better to see a sermon than to hear one.'" "Experience is a wonderful thing: it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it." "A good sermon helps people in different ways: some rise from it strengthened, others wake from it refreshed." "It is better to be able to appreciate the things you can't have than to have things you can't appreciate." "Christmas is the season when people take the milk of human kindness out of the deep freeze." "Happiness consists of not longing for those things that make us happy." "An ounce of example is worth more than a pound of advice." "Nobody talks to constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God." "The cure for love is marriage, and the cure for marriage is love again." "Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock." "Character is what you are; reputation is what you try to make people think you are." "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet dashes on the heel that crushes it." "Your conscience doesn't really keep you from doing anything wrong; it merely keeps you from enjoying it." "Proving the existence of God while standing on one leg is not the same as thanking God while praying on both knees." "Do not resent growing old; many have been denied the privilege." "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that is the essence of inhumanity" "The length of a sermon depends on whether you are awake or asleep." "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." "Power is a tricking thing: first you use it, then you abuse it, and finally you lose it." "We make out friends, We make our enemies, but God makes our neighbors." "Faith is not merely our holding on to God; it is God holding on to us." "The world is not lacking in wonders, but in a sense of wonder." "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." "The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life." "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." "Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants." The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ." "Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us." "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." "What we see as we go through life always depends upon where we stand to look." "When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to listen as to speak." "It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man." "What we love we will grow to resemble." "Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." "Faith is the principal work of the Holy Spirit.... Prayer is the chief exercise of faith." "Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys." "The more at home the Word of God is among us, the more we shall bring about faith and fruits." "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." "God has created us in him image, but we have decided to return the favor and create a God who is in our image." "Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are." "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." "We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible." "The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ." "The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, rather the conscience of the state." "One example is worth a thousand arguments." "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." "Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work and not mine." "A truth that is told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." |