Think of these things: whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. Benjamin Franklin
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful--five years later. Phyllis Battelle
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child. -- Laura Lippman
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. -- Albert Schweitzer
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. ~ George Herbert Walker Bush
O Lord, forgive what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be. -- Thomas Wilson
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only people you should ever want to get "even" with are those who have helped you. – John Honeyfield
If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. Abraham Lincoln
You have the ability, with your words, to make a person stronger. Your words are to their soul what a vitamin is to their body. Do not withhold encouragement from the discouraged. Do not keep affirmation from the beaten down! Speak words that make people stronger. Believe in them as God has believed in you. Max Lucado A Love Worth Giving
Love is an act of will: listening to someone when we are bored, keeping that perfectly couched comeback to ourselves, letting old Mrs. Jones win the argument over something unimportant, biting our tongues instead of reminding others of our triumphs. Love is the decision to behave a certain way even when we don't feel like it. Leslie Williams Seduction of the Lesser Gods
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. Oprah Winfrey
Hospitality is a grand gesture of acceptance. Christ's hospitality is forgiveness and acceptance. It welcomes friends and family, strangers and sinners. Because we live in Christ, the hospitality with which we welcome others is generated by a deep, passionate, single-minded love of Jesus extended to all corners. Hospitality comes from the heart, Christ's true home. Harriet Crosby A Place Called Home
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. Robert Muller
The Greek word translated "workmanship" is poiema; it means "something made" and gives us the English word poem. The Christian who boasts, "I'm a self-made person!" doesn't understand this basic principle that God must work in us before He can work through us. He must prepare us for what He has prepared for us. Warren W. Wiersbe
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. Benjamin Franklin
The whole idea that our lives belong to us is a myth, and an arrogant assumption when it comes right down to it. I did not conceive myself; I wasn't my own idea. I cannot will myself to wake up in the mornings--it is by God's grace alone that I am given even one more day to live. Leslie Williams
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas a Kempis
Our precious Jesus will meet extra-ordinary pain with extraordinary grace. He will meet extraordinary needs with extraordinary resources. He will meet extraordinary fears with extraordinary comfort. Kathy Troccoli
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. Abraham Lincoln
A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig
Many Bible passages (such as Luke 13:3 or Acts 2:38) issue a call for repentance. Repentance? The very thought stops our hearts with chilling honesty, for it insists that we come clean before we set out to execute life's important choices. Repentance demands that we choose a path of holy living. Calvin Miller
God is in the business of restoration, and he's been doing it for a long, long time. We're merely his partners, his apprentices. We're working with a pro! Today open your heart and let God's touch bring restoration to those areas of your life that need repair. Then go and touch others with his restoring love. Amy Nappa
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by your past. He turned a murderer named Moses into a leader and a coward named Gideon into a courageous hero, and he can do amazing things with the rest of your life, too. God specializes in giving people a fresh start. Rick Warren
When all is said and done, more is said than done. Lou Holtz
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your feet on first. Frederick Wilcox
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Theresa
Unless the gospel is preached with contemporary relevance it has not been preached. Martin Luther
The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduced yourself to had life not done it for you. Kendall Hailey
Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too. Harrison Ford
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge
Patience is also a form of action. Auguste Rodin
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: Which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert B. Swope
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. Richard M. DeVos 1926- (American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.)
Holiness isn't in a style of dress. It's not a matter of rules and regulations. It's a way of life that emanates quietness and rest, joy in family, shared pleasure with friends, the help of a neighbor--and the hope of a Savior. Joni Eareckson Tada (Holiness in Hidden Places)
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - Not even our troubles. Charlie Chaplin
The Bible calls the good man's life a light; and it is the nature of light to flow out spontaneously in all directions, and fill the world unconsciously with its beams. Horace Bushnell
There may be an easy road to success but the problem is it's very difficult to find.
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no signficance or hope... The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. Rick Warren
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I? Unknown
The gospel is so simple that simple children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches. Charles Hodge
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. Cherie Carter-Scott
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. E. H. Chapin
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. Golda Meir
Keep your nose to the grindstone and your shoulder to the wheel, it's a lot cheaper than plastic surgery.
Love is like a roller coaster: When it's good you don't want to get off, and when it isn't you can't wait to throw up.
Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs? Anoymous
