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DON’T QUIT! DON’T QUIT!
Many years ago I was visiting a lady named Deanna in the resthome, she had a copy of this little poem, I borrowed it and made a copy. I ask you to ponder these words:
DON’T QUIT (author unknown)
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jun 4, 2005
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POEM: DON’T QUIT
When things go wrong as they sometime will,
when the road your trudging seems all up hill,
When funds are low and debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
rest if you must but please
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Baptist
Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
POEM: DON’T QUIT
When things go wrong as they sometime will,
when the road your trudging seems all up hill,
When funds are low and debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
rest if you must but please don’t quit.
Life is queer with it’s twist
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Baptist
Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 11, 2009
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND PERSEVERANCE
Consider this: There was a man whose life was characterized by failure. At the age of 22, his business failed. At 23, he ran for Legislature but was defeated. So he turned to another business, which failed when he was 24. At 25, things started to turn around
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Mar 7, 2007
(ILLUSTRATION BY MAX LACADO) He was a PROFESSIONAL THIEF. His name stirred FEAR in the hearts of the people. He TERRORIZED the Wells Fargo Stage Line for 13 years. He spooked even the most RUGGED FRONTIERSMAN. During his reign of TERROR between 1875 and 1883, he is credited with STEALING the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday
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Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 19, 2006
The message of Jubilee was that when you live with God your failures couldn’t ruin you for good. A fresh start was always coming. God is a god who flips things around to remake them.
Isaiah even points at it with a word play. Verse 3: a crown (phe-er) instead of ashes (epher, ). Ashes were the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2003
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"Easily the most puzzling incident in the sports world occurs in baseball when a batter steps up to the plate and lets the pitcher throw three strikes without taking a single cut at the ball. . . . Even more disappointing is to see a person in the ball game of life step up to the plate and never
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Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013
WORDS CAN KILL
Matt Roush in USA Today writes, "The tongue has the power of life and death..."
That may sound a bit extreme. I mean how can words kill anyone? But consider Karen Carpenter, the popular singer from the 1970’s who died in 1983 of heart failure as a result of complications with
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Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
John McArthur said, “We live in a culture that has elevated pride to the status of a virtue. Self-esteem, positive feelings, and personal dignity are what our society encourages people to seek.
“At the same time, moral responsibility is being replaced by victimism, which teaches people to blame
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Pentecostal
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