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“For the message of the cross
Is foolishness to those who are
Perishing, but to us who are
Being saved it is the power
Of God.” (1 Cor.1:18)
The gospel will rescue you from sin
Give you peace of mind now
Fill you with hope for the future.
- Anonymous
So, then, to every man his chance…
To every man, regardless of his birth,
His shining golden opportunity…
To every man his right to live, to work,
To be himself, to become whatever his
Manhood and his vision can combine
To make him…
This, seeker, is the promise
of America.
- Thomas Wolfe
In the final analysis there is no solution
To man's progress but the day's honest work,
The day's honest decisions,
the day's generous
utterances and the day's good deed.
- Clare Booth Luce
Two roads diverged in a wood,
And I… I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the
difference.
- Robert Frost
We are created to
Make a difference.
- John Maxwell
If a goal is worth pursuing,
It’s a goal worth telling others about.
There’s no such thing as a silent dream.
- John Maxwell
Champions Don’t Waste Failure…
If you don’t waste a failing you (will)
Learn from the mistakes that you made
So you have a chance to improve and
Face the next challenge.
You never want to waste a failing.
- Coach Nick Saban
Every right implies a responsibility;
Every opportunity, an obligation,
Every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller
A big part of financial freedom
Is having your heart and mind
Free from worry about the
What-ifs of life.
- Suze Orman
Our business is about technology,
Yes. But it’s also about operations
And customer relationships.
- Michael Dell
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Valuing people is foundational
To changing your world.
- John Maxwell
“Do Your Job”
Do Your Job is a core belief in the
Belichickian program…
It’s hard to do your job if you don’t
Know what your job is.
Belichick defines what your job is.
- Mike Lombardi
The guys I feel like have been the biggest
Mentors to me that would be Bill Belichick…
Everyone I coached for I learned a lot of
Lessons about not only coaching but the kind
Of person you want to be, the kind of leader
You want to be, the kind of example you want
To set, be someone that other people can
Emulate, care enough about someone else to
Teach for their benefit. All those things I
Learned I learned from someone else.
- Coach Nick Saban
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All dreams can come true…
If we have the courage to
Pursue them.
- Walt Disney
We’re all working together,
That’s the secret.
- Sam Walton
If you work just for money,
You’ll never make it,
But if you love what you're
Doing and you always put
The customer first,
Success will be yours.
- Ray Kroc
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Don't learn to do,
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- Samuel Butler
No one can succeed and
remain successful without
the friendly cooperation of others.
- Samuel Butler
We tend to forget that happiness
doesn't come as a result of getting
something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and
appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig
How very little can
Be done under the
Spirit of fear.
- Florence Nightingale
If you wish “acquaintanceship,”
Be rich. If you wish friends,
Be a friend.
- Napoleon Hill Foundation
In my career I will always make decisions
On the people, if you look at the totality
Of your career, you are going to have a
Bunch of aspects to it…
What you're paid, what you are working on,
What your title is, what the quality of the
Work is, all of these things.
But, what are the people like?
That is the most important.
- Jessica Gelman
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Babe Ruth ended his career with the 1935 Boston Braves.
Goals…
Write them down;
Hang them up;
And with God’s help,
Watch them happen!
- Anonymous
A leader has two important characteristics…
First, he knows where he is going;
Second, he is able to persuade other people
To go with him.
- Anonymous
A Friend is one who believes in you
When you have ceased to believe in
Yourself.
- Anonymous
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Things must be felt
With the heart.
- Helen Keller
Expressing gratitude is a
Natural state of being and
Reminds us that we are all
Connected.
- Valerie Elster
We can lift ourselves,
And others as well,
When we refuse to
Remain in the realm
Of negative thought
And cultivate within
Our hearts an attitude
Of gratitude.
- Thomas S. Monson
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For love of country
They accepted death...
- James A. Garfield
In the truest sense,
Freedom cannot be bestowed;
It must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
History does not long entrust
The care of freedom to the weak
Or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think patriotism
Is like charity…
It begins at home.
- Henry James
Patriotism consists not
In waving the flag,
But in striving that our
Country shall be righteous
As well as strong.
- James Bryce
I believe our flag is more
Than just cloth and ink.
It is a universally recognized
Symbol that stands for liberty,
And freedom.
It is the history of our nation,
And it's marked by the blood
Of those who died defending it.
- John Thune
The Last Straw…
Coach John Calipari said the team approached him about 90 minutes before the game (at Florida Jan. 9th 2021) and asked to kneel during the National Anthem.
In their previous games of the season, the team remained in the locker room during the anthem.
Who is the leader of the Kentucky basketball team? John Calipari allowed these young men under his charge to persuade him to kneel during the National Anthem.
Could you see Coach Adolph Rupp, Coach Joe B. Hall, Coach Mike Krzyzewski, and Coach Bob Knight allowing their team to persuade them to do such?
“This is a great country but we feel like everybody, like minorities and stuff, don’t have equal rights as everybody else, so that’s what we’re protesting,” freshman Isaiah Jackson said. “That’s why we kneeled. That’s what a peaceful protest is.”
Sophomore Keion Brooks said that the team knelt not only because of racial inequalities that team members have felt, but also because of the violence at the Capitol.
“It was about the turmoil in our country right now.” "It was all the images that they saw and they wanted to have their voice heard, I held my heart, but I did kneel with them because I support the guys. It wasn't about military.” - Coach John Calipari
Three days after the team knelt at Florida, Calipari said, “Like I said to them, they're 18 years old, they're learning. It was not meant...These kids, they’re good kids. They have good hearts. Again, this political time, probably not a real good time to do it,” according to The Cats Pause.
Coach it is never a good time to disrespect the symbols of this nation and what it stands for.
The “right to protest” clause of the Constitution has received much national attention in the past few years. From Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling to Lebron James and the BLM protests.
Coach Calipari and the Kentucky basketball team “disrespected our flag and our national anthem.”
Would he have supported them if the “guys had told him we are going to jump off a 100 foot cliff and want you to join us?”
University President Eli Capilouto and Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart supported the team’s decision to kneel, saying in a joint statement, “A value we all hold dear in our country is the right of free speech and self-expression,” and added, “We live in a polarized and deeply divided country. Our hope… and that of our players and our coaches… is to find ways to bridge divides and unify.”
Coach Calipari "slapped every Kentucky military
veteran and the family of every military veteran in the face,” Buck Meredith stated.
Almost every email from Kentucky fans expressed the belief that kneeling during the national anthem… a little over 72 hours after the Capitol was stormed… was disrespectful to some combination of the country, the U.S. flag and past and present members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
“The fact you allowed them to take a knee means that you support riots and looting and burning that has taken place by the racial injustice marches.” One fan wrote.
"You lose 6 games in a row and you kneel during what our country stands for,” wrote one fan.
I personally can no longer support this coach. UK needs a good house cleaning. The President of the University, The Athletic Director and the Men’s Basketball coach all need to go!
Duty, honor, country.
Those three hallowed words
Reverently dictate what you
Ought to be, what you can be,
What you will be.
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
It's better to fight for something
In life than to die for nothing.
- Gen. George S. Patton
May we never forget
Our fallen comrades.
Freedom isn't free.
- Sgt. Major Bill Paxton
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge Allegiance
To the flag of the
United States of America
And to the Republic for
Which it stands,
One nation under God,
Indivisible, with Liberty
And Justice for all.
The Church of Christ…
The expression "church of Christ" is a descriptive term of possession.
"Church" is a collective noun (like "flock" or "family") which is composed
Of saved souls (Christians, the "called out" ones, Acts 2:41, 47).
"Church of Christ" is used to signify the church which belongs to Christ.
As such, we emphatically state that the church of Christ is not a denomination.
While many promote the advantages of "the church of your choice,"
Jesus' urgent prayer to the Father was for the unity of His believers,
Not their division into religious sects (Jn. 17:20-21).
Denominationalism is the essence of religious division.
We plead for the unity of believers with the truth of Jesus as the basis for
That unity (Eph. 4:3-6; 2 Tim. 3:16-17).
Others would promote the notion that the church is not important…
Christ is. Yes, Christ is preeminently important (Col. 1:18).
But, we must also acknowledge the importance of His church.
The one does not negate the other. The importance of Christ's church is
Brought into focus by accepting the following facts about His church…
1) It belongs to Jesus, not man. (Mt. 16:18)
Jesus built it. It is His. Man should not construct rivals to it.
2) Jesus purchased His church with His blood. (Acts 20:28)
This is the value Jesus attaches to the saved, His church.
3) Jesus is the Head of the church of Christ. (Col. 1:18)
Since it is His, He exercises supreme authority over it.
That is how valuable it is to Him.
4) The church of Christ is the Body of Christ. (Eph. 1:22-23)
Who wants to believe for a moment that Christ's body of
Believers is insignificant?
5) Jesus is its Savior. (Eph. 5:23)
That is how important the church is to Jesus!
How important is the church of Christ to you?
- Joe R. Price
***
The Church of Christ…
1. The Bible is its only guide …
(Romans.1:16; 1Thessalonians.2:13).
2. Wears a Biblical name …
(Romans.16:16).
3. Established at the right place …
(Isaiah.2:2, 3; Acts 2).
4. Established at the right time …
(Joel 2:28-32; Acts 2).
5. Established on the right person …
(Matthew16:18; Acts 2:36)
6. Saved are in it …
(Ephesians 5:23; Acts 2:47).
7. Its members are enrolled in Heaven...
(Hebrews12:23).
8. Membership in it is obtained by obedience
to God’s commands including baptism …
(Acts 2:41-47; 1 Corinthians12:13).
***
Is my name written there,
On the page white and fair?
In the book of Thy kingdom,
Is my name written there?
- Mary A. Kidder, Frank M. Davis
A Creed for Self-Discipline…
Willpower:
Recognizing that the
power of will is the Supreme Court over
all other departments of my mind, I will exercise it daily, when
I need the urge to action for any purpose; and I will form habits
designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once
daily.
Emotions:
Realizing that my
emotions are both positive and negative I
will form daily habits which will encourage the development
of the positive emotions, and aid me in converting the negative
emotions into some form of useful action.
Reason:
Recognizing that both my
positive emotions and my negative
emotions may be dangerous if they are not controlled and
guided to desirable ends, I will submit all my desires, aims and
purposes to my faculty of reason, and I will be guided by it in
giving expression to these.
Imagination:
Recognizing the need for
sound plans and ideas for the
attainment of my desires, I will develop my imagination by
calling upon it daily for help in the formation of my plans.
Conscience:
Recognizing that my
emotions often err in their over-enthusiasm,
and my faculty of reason often is without the warmth of feeling
that is necessary to enable me to combine justice with mercy in
my judgments, I will encourage my conscience to guide me as to
what is right and what is wrong, but I will never set aside the
verdicts it renders, no matter what may be the cost of carrying
them out.
Memory:
Recognizing the value of
an alert memory, I will encourage mine
to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts
I wish to recall, and by associating those thoughts with related
subjects which I may call to mind frequently.
Subconscious Mind:
Recognizing the influence
of my subconscious mind over my power
of will, I shall take care to submit to it a clear and definite picture of
my major purpose in life and all minor purposes leading to my major
purpose, and I shall keep this picture constantly before my
subconscious mind by repeating it daily.
Signed_____________________________
Discipline over the mind is gained, little by little, by the formation of
habits which one may control. Habits begin in the mind; therefore,
a daily repetition of this creed will make one habit-conscious in
connection with the particular kind of habits which are needed to
develop and control the six departments of the mind.
The mere act of repeating the names of these departments has an
important effect. It makes one conscious that these departments
exist; that they are important; that they can be controlled by the
formation of thought-habits; that the nature of these habits
determines one's success or failure in the matter of self-discipline
- Napoleon Hill
Excerpt from
the Master-Key to Riches
Gratitude turns what
We have into enough.
- Aesop
When you are grateful,
Fear disappears and
Abundance appears.
- Tony Robbins
Among the things you can
Give and still keep are your
Word, a smile, and a grateful
Heart.
- Zig Ziglar
