Steadfast Heart

I've dreamed many dreams that never came true,
I've seen them vanish at dawn.
But I've realized enough of my dreams, thank God,
To make me want to dream on.

I've prayed many prayers when no answer came;
Though I waited patient and long,
But answers have come to enough of my prayers
To make me keep praying on.

I've trusted many a friend that failed,
And left me to weep alone,
But I've found enough of my friends true blue,
To make me keep trusting on.

I've sown many seed that fell by the way
For the birds to feed upon,
But I've held enough golden sheaves in my hands,
To make me keep sowing on.

I've drained the cup of disappointment and pain
And gone many days without song,
But I've sipped enough nectar from the roses of life
To make me want to live on.

~Ron DeMarco

Random Quotes 3

God doesn’t give us what we can handle;
God helps us handle what we are given.

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God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, nor sun without rain,
But He did promise strength for the day, comfort for tears and light for the way.

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Lord, thank you that you don’t keep track of our strikeouts
Or even our homeruns.
Instead, you simply and graciously ask us to keep stepping up to the plate.

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Wounded healer
Gentle teacher
Lord of all things great and small
Mind restorer
Tender warrior
Lover of my heart and soul

Random Quotes 2

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal;
If you live only for this world, you lose both of them.
C.S. Lewis

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Nothing is small in which God is. - D.L. Moody

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge,
To find the will of God is the greatest discovery,
and to do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
-George W. Truett

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God doesn't love us because we're special-
We are special because God loves us.
-William Arthur Ward

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Joy is the echo of God's life within us.
-Joseph Marmion

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Do not pray for easy lives;
Pray to be stonger men-
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers,
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
-Phillips Brooks

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Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change
and when we are right, make us easy to live with.
-Peter Marshall

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I have found the perfect antidote for fear. Whenever it sticks up its ugly face
I clobber it with prayer.
-Dale Evens Rogers

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Do you believe in the sun when it is hidden behid a cloud?
Then doubt not the goodness of god when He seems to hide His face.

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Waiting sometiems seems like wasting time;
But God asks us to do it and He isn't a time-waster.

Random Quotes

That we are alive today is proof positive that God has something for us to do today.

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Satan tembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees- William C.

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When we do what we can, God will do what we can't.

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Faith is the daring of the sould to go farther than it can see.

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God makes a promise-
Faith believes it, Hope anticipates it, patience quietly awaits it.

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None of us is responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

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We cannot let our burdens paralyze our progress.

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Doing little things with ta strong desire to please God makes them really great.
-St. Francis De Sales

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Sometimes God calms the storm, and sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child.

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I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

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God takes my yesterdays, He keeps me tomorrow, He gives me today
and in the miracle of it all, He promises me an eternity with Him.

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They might not need me-yet they might-
I'll let my heart be just in sight-
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
-Emily Dickenson

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The blue of heaven is bigger than the clouds.

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He
Offers
Peace
Eternal

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God is, and all is well!

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You cannot stay where you are and go with God.

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Don't bother to give God instructions, just show up for duty. - Corrie ten Boom

Let God Do It

Life started out on a canvas,
With Christ making a painting of me;
But I took the paint brush from Jesus,
And painted what I wished to see.

The colors I painted kept running,
And the objects grew all out of size,
Till the mess I made on the canvas
Seemed now so completely unwise.

Then I brought back the canvas to Jesus
With the colors and figures so wrong;
In the market it simply was worthless,
Yet His blood made my painting belong.

He stood there with no condemnation,
Never mentioned the mess I had made;
He just started the painting all over,
For the price had already been paid.

As He dipped His brush in the rainbow,
The colors grew brighter in hue;
And in glory of Heaven's salvation
Brought the forms in perspective anew.

Since I tooled the brush back to Jesus,
And let Him do the picture for me;
I've found that the painting by Jesus,
Is the one that I first hoped to see.

-Unknown-

This Is My Prayer

Bless me, Heavenly Father,
Forgive my erring ways,
Grant me strength to serve Thee,
Put purpose in my days...
Give me understanding, enough
to keep me kind
So I may judge all people with my heart
and not my mind...
And teach me to be patient in everything I do,
Content to trust your wisdom and
to follow after you...
And help me when I falter and hear
me when I pray.
And receive me in Thy kingdom
to dwell with Thee someday.

-Helen Steiner Rice

Sun & Cloud

Sometimes God leads down pleasant paths
Where all is bright and fair,
And we can see the way ahead
And know that He is there.

But then life takes a sudden turn
Where briars and brambles grow,
And there are snares and pits dug deep
By many an unseen foe.

The way is long and lonely,
With none to help or care,
And it seems there's not another
With such a load as ours to bear.

It's then, when all is darkest
And we feel the most alone
That we find His arms about us
In a way before unknown.

And He speaks to our hearts a truth
That our eyes had failed to see:
Life's clouds, like its sun, are for blessing
Or else they would not be.

-Kathryn A. Horton