Prayer for 2020

Faith is the willingness to look foolish. - Mark Batterson

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

God forgives those who invent what they need. - Lillian Hellman

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. - Marian Wright Edelman

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live. - Conte Vittorio Afieri

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. - A P J Abdul Kalam

I do today from memory what yesterday I did in passion. - Gerald Barzan

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire

Attitude is not everything, but it's almost everything. - Mary Pipher

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. - Andy Williams

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perfection is my motto. Percentage is my middle name. Walk alone and wait for no man. - Unknown

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. - George Washington

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion. - Kapil Gupta

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. - Timothy Keller

Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Enthusiasm creates a current in everyone it touches. It turns an ordinary person into a crusader. - F.D. Van Amburgh

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. - Marlon Brando

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. - John Updike

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

If we don't redouble our efforts to increase incentives for invention, this country's going to lose its edge. - Dean Kamen

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good. - Dolly Parton

Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid! - Unknown

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mohandas Gandhi

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. - John Brown

Perseverance: outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. - R.S. Guthrie

I believe there's an Almighty, and I believe the Almighty's great gift to each man and woman in this world is the desire to be free. - George W Bush

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. - Oscar Wilde

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. - Geraldine Brooks

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. - Wade Boggs