A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. --Hugh Downs A truly happy person is one...
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. --Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet Adversity is the...
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. --Mignon McLaughlin Always bear in mind that your own resolution to...
A good sense of humor is essential to deal with the world's reality. --Anonymous For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present...
One of the annoying things about believing in free choice and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And...
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. --Erica Jong Anger is a prelude to courage. --Eric Hoffer Courage can't see...
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They...
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. --Roger Ascham To those who need encouragement, remember...
Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world. --T. R. Milford Everything that is done in...
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. --Edgar J. Mohn A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. --William Blake The naked...
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. --Irish proverb Did you hear about those two students in New York who sued Pace ...
A hearse is poor transportation for your first church visit. A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises" are just sitting on the...
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) US essayist & poet. The difference between a...
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christianity isn't all that...
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. --Leo Rosten In...
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life, but has also spoken for us by his death. --Søren Kierkegaard Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued...
Over the long run, love's power to forgive is stronger than hate's power to get even. --Lewis B. Smedes The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the...
Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. --George L. Griggs Patience is the companion of wisdom. --St. Augustine...
Conscience is condensed character. --Anonymous The church is the only conscience the government has. When the church is silent, the state can have no...
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. --Eric Hoffer We can often endure an extra...
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. --George Seaton Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from...
Friend In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) He will have to learn, I...
Try / Effort If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort. --Dave Weinbaum Sin is like quicksand: Your own efforts only make you sink deeper. Only an...
Light We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. --Omar Bradley Give light, and the darkness will disappear of...
Happiness If ignorance is bliss, why aren't a lot more people happy? If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice...
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell -- well then, your everyday face will do. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon The most...
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up to the stars. --Henry van Dyke Falling in love ... I think...
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh ...
Truth I was like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great...
Promise God didn't promise day without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain. But He did promise strength for the day, comfort for tears and light...
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