Swope Quotes

#1. You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why ... Wherever God motions.

Marita Bonner

#2. God works all things together for good. You were created for a purpose. God has a plan for your life.

Renee Swope

#3. Satan intends to deceive us by getting us to take our eyes off of who we are in Christ and focus on our flaws - and then spend our days figuring out how we can hide them.

Renee Swope

#4. The insecurities from your past are not the truth in your life either. As we look at our doubts and develop confident hearts, it's going to be important to recognize negative emotions from our past that keep us from living confidently in our present and future.

Renee Swope

#5. Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better.

Renee Swope

#6. God's plans for us are found when we surrender ours and seek His each day.

Renee Swope

#7. Every time I compare myself with someone else, I can never measure up because I am comparing my insides with their outsides.

Renee Swope

#8. Your past has not come full circle to its complete redemption until you allow Christ to not only defuse it, but also to use it.

Renee Swope

#9. When we allow Jesus to search our hearts and bring His perspective into our pain, redemption comes. Whether it is the pain from our yesterdays or hurts from our todays, when we give Jesus time to pour His truth into our wounds, His love flows

Renee Swope

#10. It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#11. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#12. Take me beyond the shadows of my doubts and teach me how to rely on the power of Your promises. When doubt overshadows my thoughts, help me shift my focus back to You, remembering that the mind fixed on the flesh is death, but the mind fixed on the Spirit is life and peace.

Renee Swope

#13. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

James Monroe

#14. I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#15. Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

Gerard Swope

#16. The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#17. Until our hearts find complete security and significance in God's unconditional love, we will never be satisfied.

Renee Swope

#18. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves when we offer it to others.

Renee Swope

#19. Hope is at the core of our faith in Christ. As we allow His hope to flow into us, it will flow through us even in the most difficult circumstances. If you are struggling today, take heart.

Renee Swope

#20. Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive. John Eldredge and Brent Curtis

Renee Swope

#21. I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

Bauvard

#22. As you courageously trust God's heart, ask Him to reveal Himself to you and then let Him reveal Himself through you. Hold your dreams and plans up to Jesus in surrender, and watch your life become a display of His splendor.

Renee Swope

#23. Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#24. Son, no matter where your talent takes you, you're going to be a man a lot longer than you're going to be a ball player. Knowledge is the only true power. Learn all you can.

Stephanie Evanovich

#25. The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#26. When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.

Renee Swope

#27. When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

A.J. Darkholme

#28. The saddest thing about our tendency to compare ourselves with one another is that it makes us compete with each other.

Renee Swope

#29. Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#30. One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker!

Fred Dibnah

#31. I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced.

Carmen Busquets

#32. If you want to know your purpose, pursue the heart of God and you'll have a head-on collision with your calling.

Renee Swope