Quotes about Preparation

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.

Jesus said, ''Go ye!'' but He also said, ''Tarry until!'' Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!

The birth of a natural child is predated by months of burden and days of travail; so is the birth of a spiritual child.

As you look at your life look at your goals and dreams, it's better to be prepared for an opportunity not have one than have an opportunity and not be prepared. If you expect to reach your goal prepare yourself now.

So that is what we pray for. That God will give you the wisdom and the faith to look beyond this moment. To know that whatever lies ahead, he has prepared the way. And he will have you ready for it as long as you are faithfully following him.

How I looked forward to having my house neat and orderly again.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.