Fight The Good Fight of Faith

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Points to Ponder: Better Together

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help.
—Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 NLT

Servants don’t know what their master is doing, and so I don’t speak to you as my servants. I speak to you as my friends, and I have told you everything that my Father has told me.
—John 15:15 CEV

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
—Halford Luccock (1885–1961)

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931), when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants

Memories last forever, never do they die.
Friends stick together and never really say goodbye.
—Unknown

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968)

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
—Henry Ford (1863–1947)

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship requires great communication between friends. Otherwise, it can neither be born nor exist.
—Saint Francis de Sales (1567–1622)

The most beautiful discovery that true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
—Elisabeth Foley

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
—Dinah Mulock Craik (1826–1887)

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
—François Mauriac (1885–1970)

No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each other’s worth.
—Author unknown

Friendship: To be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.
—Hugh Black (1868–1953)

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth, a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
—Helen Keller

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend’s gift as the friend’s love.
—Saint Aelred (1110–1167)

Activated

Beat Stress

A 113-year-old man, when asked the secret of his longevity, replied, “When it rains, I let it.”

Stress is the trash of modern life—we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

—Terri Guillemets

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

—Charles Haddon Spurgeon

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

—Lily Tomlin

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

—Ovid

Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you’ll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it.

—Steve Pavlina

Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response to what happens. And response is something we can choose.

—Maureen Killoran

Stress believes that everything is an emergency.

—Natalie Goldberg

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

—William James

If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.

—Catherine Pulsifer

Keep your sense of humor. There’s enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you’re supposed to enjoy.

—Amy Alcott

I will cast all my cares on God. They cannot burden Him.

—Joseph Hall

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