142. Vision and Goals
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Where there is no vision, the people perish (Pro.29:18).
1. Ask God to enlarge your vision--to show you how much more He has for you beyond what you have ever seen, or felt, or heard, or known! It's there!--But He's waiting for you!
2. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
3. Millions saw the apples fall, but Newton was the one to ask why.
4. God never puts any man in a space too small to grow in.
5. When you put a limitation on what you will do, you have put a limitation on what you can do.
6. Without the Way, there is no going
Without the Truth, there is no knowing
Without the Life, there is no living.
7. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target.
8. A great deal of what you see depends on what you are looking for.
9. Most of our inventions have been produced by fairly uneducated men--maybe they didn't know it couldn't be done.
10. A goal doesn't become a goal until you have set a deadline for its accomplishment.
11. Don't go their way--get them to come your way!
12. It's exciting to look forward and up to heights you're soon to attain if you keep fighting, climbing, winning and don't quit!
13. Everything God shows you always works out!
14. We've got a lot to be thankful for, but we've still gotta lot to do!
15. If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
16. Those whose look is fixed high cannot live low.
17. Always attack each challenge not with why we can't, but how we can.
18. Now we see through a lens darkly!--That gives a lot more meaning than glass.--To see beyond the scope of human or natural capacity, beyond our normal eyesight, see more deeply into the inner world, inner space with a microscope, and outer space with a telescope!
19. No vision and you perish,
No ideal and you're lost.
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
20. Our plan is a well-trained, well-disciplined, well-planned effort that is bound to succeed by the help of God.--Because God has ordained it and God has planned it and God is directing it.
21. Nearly every great accomplishment took years of planning and laborious engineering.
22. Hitch your wagon to His star and there'll be no stopping you!
23. The pilgrim who never reaches his goal is not on a pilgrimage!--He's just a wanderer.
24. Keep your eyes on the goal,
And the victory in your soul!
And if you go, go all the way!
25. It just takes one little glimpse of Jesus to make it worth it all!
26. Better to die for something than to die for nothing!--Or better yet, better to live for something than to die for nothing!
27. We not only know what we are against, but we know what we're for, and we know whereof we speak. We not only know where we've been, but we know where we're going, and we're on our way.
28. He is no fool who trades what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose!
29. We must not be limited by the scope of the acts of the Children of God of the past!
30. I'd rather die for something than live for nothing!
31. Without organisation and a vision, you won't make much progress.
32. We've got to keep in mind who we're aiming at and not just what we feel inspires us!
33. Keep your hopes high no matter how low you feel.
34. Sometimes when you are right in the middle of the action and get your nose so close to the details you can't stand back and see the overall picture, you can get things out of proportion, perspective and proper relationship with each other by being too close to your work.
35. The outlook for us in this World, and our future here could hardly be darker!--But the uplook could hardly be brighter or more glorious!
36. You've got to explode out of narrow confines
You've got to expand your vision
You've just gotta see the signs of the times
You've got to stand up to derision.
37. It doesn't matter where you come from if you aren't going somewhere.
38. Only he who attempts the ridiculous can achieve the impossible.
39. Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
40. There is no limit to the possibilities for a man with imagination.
41. If you aim at nothing, you're sure to hit it.
42. Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top that it is almost lonely.
43. The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.
44. The past is valuable to you as a guidepost, but dangerous if used as a hitching-post.
45. You've got a window on the World with vision, and on our great Future in the New Year for a New World coming soon!
46. Today the World.--Tomorrow the Universe!
47. Why piddle around in puddles when there are oceans to swim in and all space to revel in?
48. You've got to have a glory in the thing you do, an everlasting glory that'll carry you through!
49. We must see God in everything, to give Life meaning, reason, purpose, plan, design and a goal--the ultimate trip!
50. Look forward to the New Year with Faith for a New World.
51. Forge ahead with Faith for a fantastic full-of-love future!
52. We're out to win the World with His Word!
53. You can't do the Master's will without the Master's plan!
54. The poorest man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
55. If God be your partner, make your plans large.
56. The people whose aim is always low generally hit what they shoot at: they aim for nothing and they hit it.
57. Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream!
58. God said that our little pebble would roll and gather momentum, until it snowballed into a mountain, our little flame would be fanned into a forest fire that would sweep the nation, and our wave would wash the shores of the World!
59. The future is as bright as the promises of God!
60. Don't tell me it can't be done, or I'll show you how to do it!
61. Anybody who thinks the sky is the limit has no imagination.
62. Everything that man has ever dreamed of or imagined is somehow going to be fulfilled or is possible in the realm of God's possibilities.
63. The World, brother, let's take the World!
64. Don't let all these nagging little details get your minds and hearts off the end of the road! There may be a lot of flats, car troubles, breakdowns, repairs, delays and changes, but we'll hit the road again and keep on rolling, and nothing can stop us till we've reached the end and that Heavenly City with its Space King Who makes it worth it all!
65. Our job is to reach the ends of the Earth with the Gospel--to get the Message across.
66. Without a vision the people perish--they backslide and sink back into oblivion.
67. If you have lost the pioneering spirit and you're not going forward to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth, and you're content short of that goal, and you're satisfied with what you've already got, and you're not interested in progressing until you see the Kingdom of God really established on Earth and righteousness covering the Earth as the waters cover the seas, then you're backsliding!
68. As long as the Early Church had the vision and kept in that hot contact with the Lord and His leadership, they were sweeping the World.
69. I'll never be satisfied until everybody on Earth is saved!
70. I like to set my sights high and aim at a goal that I know would be good if we could ever attain it. We shouldn't bring our goals down to the level of little faith, but rather try to raise our faith to the level of higher goals.
71. Heaven is not the end--it's only the beginning!
72. For us there isn't going to be an end--Eternity has no end!
73. If you tell me I can't do it, then I'm going to prove to you I can!
74. When you see the vision you've got to be willing to believe it, have the faith to trust and act on it. Even if it's crazy or they may think you're crazy, you've got to believe it and you've got to act on it and have the faith to try it and be willing to have the courage to really see it through in spite of what it costs. And it may look for awhile like you lost all and it's cost everything.
(See also No. B, C, 31, 49, 61, 64, 69, 83, 89, 128, 151, 161, 175, 182, 208, 242, 251, 311B, 315, 315C, 316A, 316B, 318, 328B, 335A, 535, 565, 576, 650, 659, 766, 767, 806, 927, 971, 1003, 1087, 1092, 1099, 1141, 1200, 1241-1245, 1252, 1268, 1283, 1316, 1347, 1364, 1435, 1474, 1510, 1529.)
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