Quotes About Readiness

Organize before they rise!

I believe good luck comes to people who are ready for it and will use it unselfishly, to help others. I don't believe it often comes to the greedy. As a general rule, the greediest people I know are also the unluckiest.

Those who missed His Majesty's arrival that night missed it not because of evil acts or malice; no, they missed it because they simply weren't looking. Little has changed in the last two thousand years, has it?

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Preparation is rarely easy and never beautiful.

We are no different today, friends. We get caught up in the season, busily making preparations for Christmas. We decorate, bake cookies, shop, and wrap presents, and yet we aren't truly ready. We aren't waiting with great expectations. Our hearts aren't prepared to receive this holy guest, this heavenly visitor.

when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As

You always have to do things before you think you are ready,: Rolan observed. :That's just life.:

Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

We were dressed for war, and war was coming.

I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you.

When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows its time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready your spirit knows you are.

Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled … or that day will come on you unexpectedly. Luke 21:34

God's Word doesn't imply that we are to make ourselves ready merely for the wedding but for the Groom.

Sometimes we yearn for God to crack open a receptive door to share our faith. We scramble to grab an opportunity that never seems to come. Other times God swings open a door so quickly we're too stunned to walk through it!

Start before you're ready.

Start before you're ready.

Improvisation is not a wild scramble at the last minute. You are not pulling plans out of thin air. Improvisation is the payoff of scrupulous preparation and drill.

Start before you're ready. Good things happen when we start before we're ready. For one thing, we show huevos. Our blood heats up. Courage begets more courage. The gods, witnessing our boldness, look on in approval.

DAY 1 Put on the Whole Armor (Ephesians 6:11) Before each specific assignment

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

When you go out the door, be as if you were seeing an enemy." And Shi Li said, "Be prepared, and you will not be defeated." When

Without constant practice, the officers will be nervous and undecided when mustering for battle; without constant practice, the general will be wavering and irresolute when the crisis is at hand.]

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not