GUIDELINES FOR LIFE

Trust God.

Be generous with your lives.

Don’t say anything you don’t mean.

Don’t be unthinkingly angry, especially with those close to you, that's as bad as murder.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important

You should be more concerned with character than reputation because character is who you are, while reputation is merely what others think.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything.

My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman--concentrate on becoming the right man.

Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them.

Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes

Be a cause for the future rather than a result of the past.

Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Don't argue with someone whose neck is bigger than your head.
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question. Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Look for character not charisma. A genuine
leader will never exploit your emotions or your money.

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you're going and the insight to know
when you're going too far.
When you remember a grudge a friend has against you, go immediately and make things right.

If an old enemy accosts you, make the first move and make things right with him.

Don’t let your heart be corrupted by lust, that's as bad as adultery.

If someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life.

If someone strikes you, stand there and take it. No more ‘eye for an eye’.

If you divorce your wife, you're responsible for making her an adulteress (unless she has already made herself that by sexual promiscuity). Don’t marry a divorced adulteress.

If someone sues you for the shirt off your back, gift wrap your best coat and make a present of it.

Love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst.

When someone gives you a hard time respond with the energies of prayer.

When trying to be good, don’t make a performance of it. Help someone out unobtrusively.

Pray in a quiet place, simply and honestly, focusing on God not on you.

Don’t fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes you have are in fashion.

There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outward appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds free and unfettered.

Instead of looking at fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers, the ten best dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.

Don’t be so occupied with getting, instead respond to Gods giving. All your everyday human concerns will be met when you steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative and God-provisions.

Give your attention to what God is doing right now, don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow, God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up.

Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures or criticise their faults - unless you want the same.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
-Dale Carnegie

Don’t be flippant with the sacred, don’t reduce holy mysteries to slogans.

Don’t bargain with God, be direct, ask for what you need.

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

You will have to rough it, pursue life.

Spend time with those who need it, the sick not the healthy; mercy not religion.

You don’t need fund-raising or a lot of equipment, you are the equipment, all you need is three meals a day. Travel light. When you enter a town, get a modest place with some modest people, and be content there until you leave.