Some Quotes to Ponder

• “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” - Bill Vaughn
  

• “Jesus was the first world leader to inaugurate a kingdom with a heroic role for losers.” - Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World (Zondervan, 2003)
  

• “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” - Thomas J. Peters
  

• When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. - Samuel Rutherford
  

• Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. - Phillips Brooks