Legacy Youth Ministry Resources

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Most Trials Run Into The Ditch

?If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.? Calvin Coolidge

Right With God, In Trouble With Men

?To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.? A.W. Tozer

Meddling With Christ's Business

"You are meddling with Christ's business and neglecting your own (which is obedience and praise) when you fret about your circumstances." Charles Spurgen. "Morning By Morning" Dec. 19th. (Rick Mill)

Adventure as an Inconvenience Rightly Considered

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. --G. K. Chesterton

Born Naked and Hungry

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse -- Bumper Sticker

Hurts Instruct

?Those things that hurt, instruct.? (Benjamin Franklin)

Pain is Inevitable

?Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.?

Success by Working Through Difficulties

One of the main differences between those who succeed and those who fail can be found in how they approach life?s difficulties. Failures either try to avoid their problems or to work around them. Successful people accept them and work through them, even when it includes some suffering. It?s this process of meeting our problems head on and looking for solutions that gives life meaning. (Urban, Hal, Life?s Greatest Lessons or 20 Things I Want My Kids to Know, Great Lessons Press, Redwood City, CA, 1997,

Life as a Series of Problems

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? (M. Scott Peck)