God Still Speaks to People–Including Pre-believers
God is Eternal…
. . . Meaning He sees your whole life before you take your first breath. Your key encounters and experiences were already on His divine timeline before you took your first step. How comforting!
Back in high school, my friend gave me a tiny booklet that changed my life by influencing my thinking. Almost forty years later, I found that booklet on a shelf (Amazingly, it survived multiple moves over the years!). When I first read it back in 1981, I did not yet know anything about Jesus; yet amid my darkened understanding and distorted beliefs, God began planting some healthy thought patterns that would stick with me forever. He was speaking to me.
Only a religious mind limits God’s ability to use unlikely methods of communication. May these words of wisdom inspire you as they did me.
Friendship
“There are no strangers in the world, only friends you have yet to meet.”
“A friend is not a shadow who is present only when the sun shines. A friend is someone who knows you and likes you in spite of knowing you!”
“I shall pass this way but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again” -Etienne de Grellet
“That I may care enough to love enough to share enough to let others become what they can be.” -John O’Brien (emphasis added)
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Work
“Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are” – Emerson
“If I were boss, would I hire me?”
“Reputation is built by a thousand individual acts, and lost by merely one…” – author unknown
“There is only one way to improve one’s work: Determine to love it! Without such determination man is an untempered sword.”
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Believe
“One of life’s illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best — the most crucial — day in all the year.” -Emerson
“He who can read but does not, has no advantage over those who are unable to read at all.”
“Man’s mind once stretched to accommodate a new idea never returns to its original dimension.”
“Knowledge to know. Wisdom to understand. Vision to see. Faith to believe. Courage to do. Compassion to serve.”
“The great man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists temptations from within and without, who is calmest in storms, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God is the most unfaltering” – Seneca the Younger
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Daily Living
“If you’re not part of the solution, you might be part of the problem.”
“There are no limits to the amount of good a person can accomplish if he doesn’t care who gets the credit” – President Ronald Reagan (?)
“Do what must be done … and then all you possibly can in addition.”
“LOVE is doing everything possible for another human being that he might become the finest person God could have intended.”
“To lead a symphony, one must sometimes turn his back on the crowd” – Dr. Earl Reum
Sowing Seeds of Bravery to Live without Compromise.
(Disclaimer: unless otherwise noted, all sayings are from “A Place to Stand” by Dr. Earl Reum, who may not have given proper citations.)
