Legacy Youth Ministry Resources

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Lincoln on Life Change

I care not much for a man?s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. -- Abraham Lincoln

Booker T. Washington Measures Success

"Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Booker T. Washington

Newman in Doing Something Well

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault." John Henry Newman

Truth Comes From Hands and Feet

Facts came out of your head. Truth comes out of your hands and feet.

Say, Do, Say They Do

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. -- Margaret Mead

Living Up To Principles

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. --Adlai Stevenson

Live Your Beliefs

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. --Henry David Thoreau

Slow, But Ahead of You

I may be slow, but I'm ahead of you - Bumper Sticker

Doctor Whose Plants Died

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. --Erma Bombeck

Mediocrity Chilled His Faith

Mediocrity Chilled His Faith Evidence, Consistency, Zeal Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith. -- Thomas Merton