Henrietta Mears Quotes

#1. Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

Henrietta C. Mears

#2. Let the Bible fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet.

Henrietta Mears

#3. If you would be pure, saturate yourself with the Word of God.

Henrietta C. Mears

#4. Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

Henrietta C. Mears

#5. All around the garage and house were pieces of me, but they couln't put them together. They didn't see the completed puzzle standing in front of them.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.

Terrell Owens

#7. God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

Henrietta Mears

#8. A plant bred in a laboratory is no more or less "real" than a baby born through in vitro fertilization. The traits matter, not the process.

Michael Specter

#9. Religion is that which becomes the religion and gives results. When can we say it is this way? It is when it helps when someone insults you. It will not let you be affected by it.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. The critics only made me work harder.

Muhammad Ali

#11. There is no magic in small plans.

Henrietta Mears

#12. It is our duty to do all we can to introduce every generation to Christ.

Henrietta Mears

#13. In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

Michael Stipe

#14. Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

Henrietta Mears

#15. Take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own" (Joshua 1:11). It is God's to give! It is ours to possess!

Dr. Henrietta C. Mears

#16. God buries His workmen, but not His work..

Henrietta Mears

#17. Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities ... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

Henrietta Mears

#18. The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

Henrietta Mears

#19. The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

Henrietta Mears

#20. Nothing's ever as harmless as it seems.

Richelle Mead

#21. I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.

Sukarno

#22. Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

Henrietta Mears

#23. It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

Henrietta C. Mears

#24. All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.

Henrietta Mears

#25. BOTTOM Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.

William Shakespeare

#26. It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

Henrietta Mears

#27. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life,

Henrietta Mears

#28. It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#29. A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

Henrietta C. Mears

#30. I know not the way He leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

Henrietta C. Mears

#31. Youth does not think into the future far enough, therefore we must encourage them to dream of great tomorrows.

Henrietta Mears

#32. Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are,

Henrietta Mears

#34. When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.

Henrietta Mears

#35. Faith is caught rather than taught.

Henrietta Mears