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"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." - Hans Margolius
"Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of our recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest. Prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts." - Jeremy Taylor
"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know... It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason." - Pascal
"Remember life is short. So dance like no one is watching, sing like you will never be heard, and love like it's never going to hurt."
"As one person, I cannot change the world. But I can change the world for one person."
"No one can do everything, but everyone can do something."
"Even when the wind howls, a mountain cannot bow." - from Disney's Mulan
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." - from Disney's Mulan
"Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see."
"The difference between success and failure lies in the difference between doing things exactly right versus almost right."
"We are unhappy not because of the complexities of life, it's because we miss the underlying simplicities."
"My wish for you is that you always have people to laugh with and be close to, things to dream about and work hard for, places you can go to rest and reflect on all that is good in the world and especially in you, and may you always know how much you are thought of and loved."
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks
"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." - David McIntosh
"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." - John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball
"That which you cannot change is embraced as your lasting reality." - Dr. David J. Lieberman
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"Let go and let GOD be GOD."
"A tree that reaches past your embrace grows from one small seed.
A structure over nine stories high begins with a handful of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."
"It's better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
"By drawing on his strength through prayer and Bible reading, we'll develop strong spiritual roots capable of withstanding dry spells and boulders. And, like a spring that waters a lush garden, we'll have the resources to spread God's love by watering others." - Bible Seeds "The source of strength is living water -God." - Bible Seeds
"To be brought into the zone of the call of God is to be profoundly altered." - Bible Seeds
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." - Henry David Thoreau
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Theresa
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Anonymous
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Donna Roberts
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - Kahlil Gibran
"Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels."
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place." - Anonymous
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." - Mother Teresa
"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love." - L.O. Baird
"The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich
"Forgetting is not possible. Forgiving is."
"Creativity is a way to use the spark of God within you." - Linda Kavelin Popov et al.
"Gentleness is moving wisely, touching softly, holding carefully, speaking quietly, and thinking kindly." - Popov et al.
"To practice thankfulness, appreciate little things - a flower by the road, the stars at night, a challenge met, a laugh with a friend, a sorrow shared. To be truly thankful, don't wait for a dream to be fulfilled. Celebrate the moment." - Popov et al.
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." - Henri Nouwen
"Though the miles between us are many, the heart is a bridge that can span the largest oceans. Thus, we shall always be close, as long as we are in each other's hearts." - Anonymous
"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world." - Emmet Fox
"My wish is not to mean everything to everyone but to mean something to someone."
"Love... like fine sand. Grasp it and it will quickly slip through your fingers. Cup it gently and it will fill the voids of your soul--as sand seeks to fill the spaces in your hands."
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I'd have the entire night sky in the palm of my hand."
"Self-sacrifice is the greatest expression of love."
"Definition of forgiveness: The perfume a flower leaves on the shoe that crushed it."
"Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul."
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
"Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene." - Epictetus
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you reallys top to look fear in the face - you must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do not be in a hurry to fill up an empty space with words and embellishments, before it has been filled with a deep interior peace." - Father Alexander Elchaninov
"Life must be lived moment by moment. Each moment carries a message, a lesson for us." - Dr. David K. Reynolds
"Do not put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today." - Josh Billings
"A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning." - Anonymous
"We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today." - Sydney Smith
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone." - Coco Chanel
"Growth begins when we start to accept our own weaknesses." - Jean Vanier
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love notices. Love listens. Love remembers."
"Let each happy moment be timeless."
"To love another person is to see the face of God." - from the musical Les Misérables
"Continuity will not mean a servile mechanical repetition of the motion of the past generation, but a grasping of a large vision and an awareness of the particular moment in which each generation lives." - Samuel Escobar
"They are not gone who live in the hearts they left behind." - Native American proverb
"This cry of our heart to be loved is only the faint echo of God's desire to love us." - John Ortberg
"God's way is rarely the quickest way. It is seldom the easiest way. But it is always the best way." - John Ortberg
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle "I love you not only for all you do for me and all you share with me, but most of all, I love you for all that you are."
"A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul." - Leo Buscaglia
"If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are." - Frank Laubach
"'Spirituality' wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God." - Dallas Willard
"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we may be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs. But deep within, behind the scenes, at a profounder level, we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings." - Thomas Kelly
"In general, the soul makes greater progress when it least thinks so... most frequently when it imagines that it is losing." - St. John of the Cross
"Purity of heart is to will one thing." - Søren Kierkegaard
"It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it means that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is his splendor." - Nicholas Wolterstorff
"Grace: a gift that costs everything for the giver and nothing for the recipient." - Philip Yancey
"In our weakest times God's strength is ours to trust. In our saddest times His compassion is ours to heal. In all times His love is ours to share."
"Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life today that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.
Let me use disappointment as material for patience;
Let me use success as material for thankfulness;
Let me use suspense as material for perseverance;
Let me use danger as material for courage;
Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering;
Let me use praise as material for humility;
Let me use pleasures as material for temperance;
Let me use pains as material for endurance."
- John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer
"He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself." - George Herbert
"When in prayer you clasp your hands, God opens his."
"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue." - Eugene O'Neill
"When grace descends, the world falls silent before it." - Philip Yancey
"Concepts create idols, only wonder grasps anything." - Gregory of Nyssa
"If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair." - Madame Jeanne Guyon
"Whatever faith may be, and whatever answers it may give, and to whomsoever it gives them, every such answer gives to the finite existence of man an infinite meaning, a meaning not destroyed by sufferings, deprivations, or death." - Leo Tolstoy
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