Quotes about Opportunity

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And since I'm so very aware of my own need for grace, I must be willing to freely give it away. Each hole left from rejection must become an opportunity to create more and more space for grace in my heart.

Imagine this opportunity as an amazingly attractive but fast-moving river. There is so much that looks extremely appealing about this river, you're going to be tempted to jump right in. But once you are in the river, you have diminished your ability to make decisions. That river is moving so fast that it will take you where it is going. And if you haven't carefully traced out in advance whether you want to go through and to the places that river flows, you'll be in trouble.

Maybe you've been entrusted with this. Not cursed with it.

Humility opens the ears of opportunity.

When we decrease, God has room to make big things happen.

What if the worst parts of your life are actually gateways to the very best parts you'd never want to do without?

Fill in the blank: This rejection doesn't mean I'm [whatever negative label or shame-filled feeling you are having]. It makes this [opportunity] [person] [desire] a wrong fit for me right now. Instead of letting the feelings from this situation label me, I'm going to focus on God and His promises for good things.

Good things are coming. I know it. Today's disappointment is making room for tomorrow's appointment. Let's look for those good things with great intentionality.

Relationships don't come in packages of perfection; relationships come in packages of potential.