Tuesday, February 21, 2012

21 Things To Give Up For Lent (15-21)



  1. GREED "If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar." Matthew 6:22-23 (MSG)
  2. THINKING YOU KNOW IT ALL "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden
  3. HOARDING "We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing." Billy Graham
  4. ENVY "Envy is an insult to oneself." Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  5. BOREDOM "Boredom is rage spread thin." Paul Tillich 
  6. RAGE "People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing." Will Rogers
  7. DOUBT "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1
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Monday, February 20, 2012

21 Things To Give Up For Lent (8-14)

  1. STAGNATION "Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale
  2. PROMISE BREAKING Remember your promises. Deliver. Period.
  3. PROCRASTINATION "If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done." Norman Vincent Peale
  4. RESENTMENT. "Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die." Malachy McCourt
  5. INCONSISTENCY. "I try to be the same person I was yesterday." Colin Powell
  6. SHORTSIGHTEDNESS. "Imagination is the true magic carpet." Norman Vincent Peale
  7. VERBOSITY. "Brevity is the soul of wit." William Shakespeare
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

21 Things To Give Up For Lent (1-7)


  1. FEAR "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7
  2. DISCONTENT "Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  3. GOSSIP "Gossips can't keep secrets, so never confide in blabbermouths." Proverbs 20:19 (The Message)
  4. IRRITABILITY "Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult." Proverbs 12:16 (NIV)
  5. SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Teresa
  6. DESPAIR "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." Martin Luther
  7. SILENCE "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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