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"Teach him what has been said in the past, then he will set a good example to the children. . . . Speak to him, for there is none born wise." Ptahhotpe, Maxims (24th century B.C.).
“Get a Life!” is our Fall, 2004, Campus CrossWalk theme. The inspiring quotes below were chosen to challenge you to live the abundant life in Christ and to take responsibility for loving life as God’s gift, given with a purpose -- now and forever!
Life-Getting Insight for Today:
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot (1927-1956), missionary to Ecuador, killed by those he came to evangelize. His journals also contained the line; “Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the
will of God.”
“[Basketball] is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior.” John Wooden, They Call Me Coach. p. 95.
"If you can't outsmart people, out work them." Bill Veeck.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin.
“Make sure the thing you are living for is worth dying for.” Charles Mayes, World Vision Magazine.
"TV is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.” Eric Kovocs.
"I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Etienne de Grellett
Life-Getting Insight from the Past:
"Nobody could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke, British statesman, philosopher (1729-1797).
“A useless life is an early death.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), "Iphigenie auf Tauris."
"Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered." John Locke (1632-1704), Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." Washington Irving (1783-1859).
"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), On Boswell's Life of Johnson, (1832).
“Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). 1839
“Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.” Phillips Brooks (1835-1893).
"It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities." Booker T. Washington; Atlanta; September 18, 1895.
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood. . ." Theodore Roosevelt(1958-1919), Paris Sorbonne,1910.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill (1874-1965). British Prime Minster, statesman.
“More men fail through lack of purpose than through lack of talent.” Billy Sunday (1862-1935), American evangelist.
"Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it." C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), God in the Dock.
"A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives." Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), baseball star for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Life-Getting Insight from the Bible:
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” Jesus, John 10:10.
"The sluggard says, 'There is a lion outside' or 'I will be murdered in the streets.'" Proverbs 19:24 (excuses not to step outside and live).
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me.” The Apostle Paul (Philippians 1: 21).
“But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which for
which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Paul (Philippians 3:13).
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