HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here are a few quotes to get your 2010 off to a good start…

• “Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.” (Jay Leno)
• “Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” (Jonathan Edwards)
• “If you’re running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time… There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you’ll find that no job is all that intimidating.” (Chuck Swindoll, quoted in Insights for Living)
• “As we grow older in life, years somehow seem to shorten and New Year’s Day approaches with an ever increasing tempo. The more mature we get, the more we realize that time is only relative; how we live means more than how long we live. Haply also we do not live by years, but by days. In His wisdom God does not show us all that lies ahead. So we enter a new year to live it day by day. What is past is past. Today we start anew, and what we do today will make our life for tomorrow. Chin up, shoulders straight, eyes agleam, let us salute the New Year, and each day let us follow more faithfully, more courageously, more daringly the lead of our great Captain who bids us follow Him.” (William Thomson Hanzsche)
• “Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another goal.” (John Dewey, quoted in The Arizona Republic)
• “Exclusive preference for either the past or the present is a foolish and wasteful form of snobbishness and provinciality.” (Mortimer Adler, quoted in The Wall Street Journal)
• “Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your view becomes much more extensive.” (Ingmar Bergman, quoted in the Victoria, British Columbia, Advocate)
• “The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.” (Fred Astaire, quoted in the London Independent)
• “There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding one another.” (Eric Hoffer, quoted in The Vancouver Sun)
• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he has learned in school.” (Albert Einstein, quoted in The Huffington Post)
• During a Senate debate over legislation regarding same-sex marriage N.Y. Senator Eric Adams (Dem) said, “When I walk through these doors, my Bible stays out.” But Senator Ruben Diaz (also a Democrat) replied, “That’s the wrong statement. You should carry your Bible ALL THE TIME!” (Amen! Senator Diaz). (quoted from World magazine, Dec. 19, 2009, p. 12)

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “So now not only are the rich going to be poorer, they’re going to be uglier. As if socking them with higher Medicare taxes and then taxing them again on their pricey, private health plans weren’t enough, the Senate health-care bill aims to cash in on their conceit: It levies a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery. Just call it a ‘bo-tax.’ (Neil Cavuto, in FoxNews.com)

God bless you.

Preacher

God bless you.

Preacher