Spiritual Kindling’s Encouragement for Women
Ability:
“God doesn’t want your ability. He wants your availability.” (Bobby Bowden)
Attitude:
“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” (Patricia Neal)
Children:
“Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” (Psalm 127:3)
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” (Angela Schwindt)
“Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.” (Chinese Proverb)
“The best academy....a mother's knee.” (James Lowell)
Courage:
“Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.” (Dorothea Brand)
Dreams:
“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.” (Marsha Norman)
“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” (J.M. Power)
“There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.” (B. Quilliam)
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” (Henry David Thoreau)
Faith:
“Without faith nothing is possible With it, nothing is impossible.” (Mary McLeod Bethune)
“Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive.” (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Family:
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” (Pope John Paul II)
Gratitude:
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” (Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco)
Happiness:
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Joy:
“Joy is the best makeup.”
Patience:
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way.” (Psalm 37: 7)
“Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer.” (Ed Cole)
Possessions:
“The best things in life aren’t things.” (Ann Landers)
Prayer:
“Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.” (Adam Clarke)
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” (Mother Teresa)
“Be careful what you pray for. You just might get it.” (Anonymous)
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.” (Satchel Paige)
“Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.” (Samuel M. Shoemaker)
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” (Oswald Chambers)
"A Sunday well-spent brings a week of contentment." (Proverb)
Purpose:
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” (Robert Byrne)
“The purpose of life is not to be happy - - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” (Leo Rosten)
“And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
“The true joy of life (is) being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.” (George Bernard Shaw)
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10)
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.“ (Matthew 7:7)
Success:
“The secret of my success? Concentration.” (Chris Everett)
“God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.”
(Mother Teresa)
Worry:
“We would worry less about what people think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” (Ethel Barrett)
Encouragement for Women
When Things Go Wrong - -
An inspirational poem
"When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
“When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
“When the funds are low and the debts are high
“And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
“When care is pressing you down a bit,
“Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
“Life is queer with its twists and turns,
“As every one of us sometimes learns,
“And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
“Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
“You may succeed with another blow,
“Success is failure turned inside out--
“The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
“And you never can tell how close you are,
“It may be near when it seems so far;
“So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
“It's when things seem worst that you must not quit."
(Anonymous)
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