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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
When the great Christian and scientist, Sir Michael Faraday, was dying, some journalists questioned him as to his speculations about life after death. "Speculations!" he said, "I know nothing about speculations. I'm resting on certainties. 'I know that my redeemer liveth, and because He lives, I shall live also.'"

Martin Luther said: "Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death."

John Knox said: Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

John Wesley said: "The best of all is, God is with us. Farewell! Farewell!"

Charles Wesley said: "I shall be satisfied with thy likeness -- satisfied, satisfied!"

Adoniram Judson said: "I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet when Christ calls me home, I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school."

John Pawson said: "I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!"

When Benjamin Franklin was about to die, he asked that a picture of Christ on the cross should be so placed in his bedroom that he could look, as he said, "upon the form of the Silent Sufferer." He wrote in advance the epitaph to be on his gravestone: "The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, it's contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here...Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the Author."

FANATICISM
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

FAILURE
"Failure is an event, never a person." - William D. Brown

"What does not destroy me makes me stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"Learn from the mistakes of others; you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt

FAITH
"If we lose faith we become skeptical. If we lose hope we become cynical. If we lose love we become critical. Let faith, hope & love abide." - Dale Evrist

FAITHFULNESS
"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness." - Mother Teresa

"God has no larger field for the man who is not faithfully doing his work where he is." - Author Unknown

FATIGUE
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." - Vince Lombardi

FEAR
"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear." - E. H. Harriman

"Never take counsel of your fears. - Andrew Jackson

"He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him."
- Moorish Proverb

"He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand."
- Constance Naden

FINISHING
"The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him." - Fan The Flame, J. Stowell, Moody, 1986, p. 32.

FORGIVENESS
Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald Reagan said that her dad made a lasting impression on her the day after the assassination attempt of 1982. She says, "The following day my father (Ronald Reagan) said he knew his physical healing was directly dependent on his ability to forgive John Hinckley. By showing me that forgiveness is the key to everything, including physical health and healing, he gave me an example of Christ-like thinking." - The QuoteLetter, December, 1996

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was reminded one day of a vicious deed that someone had done to her years before. But she acted as if she had never even heard of the incident. "Don’t you remember it?" her friend asked. "No," came Barton’s reply, "I distinctly remember forgetting it."

FRIENDSHIP
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell

"So live that your friends can defend you but never have to." - Arnold Glasow

FUN
"When people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom." - David Ogilvy

FUTURE
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln


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