Quotes.

These are quotes that I like, find interesting, perhaps find comical, or just wanted to share with someone…

~Corrie Ten Boom

• Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
• Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
• The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
• Joy runs deeper than despair
• Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
• Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
• Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
• Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

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Fairy tales are more true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ~G.K. Chesterton

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My life is but a weaving, between my God and me,
I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily,
Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride,
Forget He sees the upper, and I the underside.
Not till the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly,
Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver’s hand,
As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned. ~Unknown

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Teach us, Lord,
to serve You as You deserve,
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for any reward
save that of knowing
that we do your will.
~ Ignatius of Loyola

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~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
• To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ
• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
• God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
• We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
• Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one’s heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty

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~C.S. Lewis

• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
• Time alone does not heal all wounds; if it did, we would not need physicians, surgeons, counselors, or psychiatrists. On the contrary, many untreated wounds will fester, become infected and perhaps spread poison throughout our bodies. A more accurate saying would be, “Time heals some wounds, but time also causes some untreated wounds to fester and spread. But then, that is not nearly so pithy.
• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
• God loves us; not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but because He delights to give.
• What we want is not more books about Christianity, but more books by Christians on other subjects.
• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
• Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
• Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
• The very one who argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.
• The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
• Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
• Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
• Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
• God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
• We can’t go on indefinitely being just ordinary, decent eggs. We must be hatched or go bad.
• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence…. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
• To love is to be vulnerable. The only place outside Heaven where you can be safe from the dangers of love is Hell.
• Christ says-I don’t want some of your time & money, I want you. I’ve not come to torment your natural self but to kill it.
• God made a better story. But it’s a long story with a complicated plot & we’re not very attentive readers.
• God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
• It’s hardly complimentary to God that we should choose Him as an alternative to Hell: yet even this He accepts.
• It’s a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He isn’t.
• In the Christian story God descends to reascend. He goes down to come up again & bring the whole ruined world up with Him.
• It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
• The measure of a life, after all, is not it’s duration, but it’s donation.

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Our churches today spend more time praying to keep people out of heaven than for those who may never get into heaven. We pray for healing for the dying instead of the lost. ~ DCO Phil Johnson

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~ T.S. Eliot

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~Martin Luther

• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
• God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
• Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
• Pray, and let God worry.
• Music is an outstanding gift of God and next to theology. I would not want to give up my slight knowledge of music for a great consideration. And youth should be taught this art; for it makes fine, skillful people.
• I am not satisfied with him who despises music, as all fanatics do; for music is an endowment and a gift of God, not a gift of men. It also drives away the devil and makes people cheerful; one forgets all anger, unchasteness, pride, and other vices. I place music next to theology and give it the highest praise. And we see how David and all saints put their pious thoughts into verse, rhyme, and songs, because music reigns in times of peace.
• Without Christ no one can comfort himself.
• The cross of Christ is distributed through the whole world, and to everybody inevitably comes his portion of it. Do you, therefore, not cast it aside, but rather take it up as a holy relic, kept not in a golden or silver case but in a golden heart, that is, one imbued with gentle love.

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The beauty of the Gospel is that it grants us freedom to make decisions about how we will use our gifts in service to our neighbor. ~Matthew C. Harrison

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Caring words, friendship, affectionate touch–all of these have a healing quality. Why? Because we were all created by God to give and receive love. ~Jack Frost

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It is an awesome, challenging thought: The Lord comes to us in our friends. What we do and are to them is an expression of what we are to Him. ~Lloyd John Ogilvie

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I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Let your faith be in the quiet confidence that God will every day and every moment keep you as the apple of His eyes. ~Andrew Murray

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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. ~Alan Alda

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More and more I realize that everybody, regardless of age, needs to be hugged and comforted in a brotherly or sisterly way now and then. Preferably now. ~Jane Howard

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There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the times comes–seize it, don’t miss it. ~Max Lucado

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Knowing what to say is not always necessary; just the presence of a caring friend can make a world of difference. ~Sheri Curry

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Today is unique! It has never occurred before, and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities. ~Charles R. Swindoll

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If I can keep laughing, everything will be fine. ~Beverly Sills

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as real strength. ~Francis de Sales

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Be with me in my silence and in my speech, in my haste and in my leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give me grace at all times to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. ~John Baille

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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. ~Harry S. Truman

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ~Walt Disney

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We are truly loving when we help ourselves and others to be all we are meant to be. A loving life is a life where there is a balance between fulfilling our own needs and caring enough about others to help them fulfill theirs. ~Alexandra Stoddard

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At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way. ~Thomas Leland

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There are moments when our hearts nearly burst within us for the sheer joy of being alive. The first sight of our newborn babies, the warmth of love in another’s eyes, the fresh scent of rain on a hot summer’s eve–moments like these renew in us a heartfelt appreciation for life. ~Gwen Weising

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Open your hearts to the love God instills… God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared. ~Mother Teresa

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To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them;…to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit in God’s out-of-doors–these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace. ~Henry van Dyke

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My strength…returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. ~Dorothy Day

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause to fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer–His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable. ~Andrew Murray

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[God] stands fast as your rock, steadfast as your safeguard, sleepless as your watcher, valiant as your champion. ~Charles H. Spurgeon

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The Lord’s chief desire is to reveal Himself to you, in order for Him to do that He gives you abundant grace. The Lord gives you the experience of enjoying His presence. He touches you, and His touch is so delightful that, more than ever, you are drawn inwardly to Him. ~Madame Jeanne Guyon

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I am convinced that God has built into all of us an appreciation of beauty that has even allowed us to participate in the creation of beautiful things and places. It may be one way God brings healing to our brokenness, and a way that we can contribute toward bringing wholeness to our fallen world. ~Mary Jane Worden

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His grace is great enough to meet the great things–the crashing waves that overwhelm the soul, the roaring winds that leave us stunned and breathless, the sudden storms beyond our life’s control. ~Annie Johnson Flint

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~-G. K. Chesterton

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We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

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The only real failure is not grasping that opportunity. ~Dr. Nancy Snyderman

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Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.

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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. ~Emily Bronte

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Sisters are different flowers from the same garden

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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elizabeth Foley

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The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller

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Tuck (this) thought into your heart today. Treasure it. Your Father God cares about your daily everythings that concern you. ~Kay Arthur

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A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountain top and silently walks beside you through the valley. ~William A Ward

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I am glad that in the springtime of life there were those who planted flowers of love in my heart. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Sometimes during a busy day, I find myself wondering what you’re doing that very minute… and I wish that we could be together. I’m always interested in whatever happens to be happening with you, because I care about you and everything that touches your life. So I want you to know that even though you’re not here, you’re still with me, warming my thoughts, touching my heart. ~Diana Manning

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I knew our friendship would be forever the day I began thinking of you as family. Like family, we don’t question whether or not we’ll be there for each other — we just are. We’ve discovered a kinship — a bond linking our hearts just like family. No matter where we go or what we do, we’re never without each other’s loyalty, support, and caring. That’s friendship at its best… friendship that most people might experience once or twice in a lifetime if they’re lucky. I, without question, am one of the lucky ones because, in you, “friend” and “family” have come to mean the same. ~M.E. Miro

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All that we have and are is one of the unique and never-to-be repeated ways God has chosen to express Himself in space and time. Each of us, made in His image and likeness, is yet another promise He has made to the universe that He will continue to love it and care for it. ~Brennan Manning

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A bird does not sing because he has an answer; he sings because he has a song. ~Barbara Johnson

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Influence often isn’t noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else’s life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide. ~Pam Farrel

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Let God have you, and let God love you–and don’t be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you’ve never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before. ~Max Lucado

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Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen

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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~Sandra Carey

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Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. ~Unknown

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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud ~Carl Sandburg
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. ~Bob Hope

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. ~Grenville Kleiser

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What shall I bestow upon a friend? Fleeting moments of silent blessings; trust in tomorrow, which is life’s hardest task; faith that each new dawn brings daylight’s golden pathway to the ever-open door; and a belief that God will be with them though all others go their way. ~Lea Palmer

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God’s love… is a beautiful, eternal gift, held out to us in the hands of love. ~John Powell, S. J.

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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. ~Marian Wright Edelman

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God has something new for you every day. He delights in you and loves to surprises you with good things. ~Roy Lessin

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The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head… He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life. ~Elisabeth Elliot

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Sometimes life’s Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt

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After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn’t a pessimist understand? ~Robert Brault

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I have decided to stick with love, hate is too great a burden to bear. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams

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The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~Saint Exupery

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I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~Flash Rosenberg

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran

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The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. ~Arthur Lacey

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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Over the Teacups,” 1891

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No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Terri Guillemets

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Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. ~Star Trek: Voyager

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Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ~Alphonse Allais

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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. ~Ronald Reagan

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It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles. ~Dave Barry

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Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ~Helen Keller

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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. ~Henry David Thoreau

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I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. ~Rosalia de Castro

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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr. Seuss

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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine

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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.  ~Lin Yutang

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A passport, as I’m sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.  ~Lemony Snicket

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The traveler sees what he sees.  The tourist sees what he has come to see.  ~G.K. Chesterton

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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.  ~Hilaire Belloc

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The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.  ~Henry Boye

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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness. ~Henri J. M. Nouwen

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The miracle of joy is this: It happens when there is no apparent reason for it. Circumstances may call for despair. Yet something different rouses itself inside us… We are able to remember what the sunrise looks like… We remember God. We remember He is love. We remember He is near. ~Ruth Senter

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Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel good to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Be patient with yourself and others. There are no shortcuts to spirituality. Growing fruit takes time.

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We are of such value to God that He came to live among us…and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us….We can only respond by loving God for His love. ~Catherine of Sienna

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At the very heart of the universe is God’s desire to give and to forgive.

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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower–the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. ~Helen Keller

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The work of creating is an act of love. The God who flung from His fingertips this universe filled with galaxies and starts, penguins and puffins… peaches and pears, and a world full of children made in His own image, is the God who loves with magnificent monotony. ~Brennan Manning

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Don’t be ashamed to be as a child in your relationship to God. Let the everlasting arms rock you to sleep….He will take care of you day and night, forever. ~Norman Vincent Peale

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There is a reason why Jesus taught us to call God “Father.” He was trying to give us a clear picture of what God is really like. He wants to comfort, to show His love, to accept us in spite of our mistakes. When I let go of guilt, I can receive His comfort with open arms. ~Keri Wyatt Kent

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Joy comes from knowing God loves me and knows who I am and where I’m going… that my future is secure as I rest in Him. ~James Dobson

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There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.

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Be still, and in quiet moments, listen to the voice of your heavenly Father. His words can renew your spirit…no one knows you and your needs like He does. ~Janet Weaver Smith

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Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them… The things we try to avoid and fight against–tribulation, suffer, and persecution–are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. ~Oswald Chambers

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You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can’t say I am glad to go through pain, but in a way one must in order to gain courage and really feel joy. ~Carol Burnett

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Heavenly Father,

Thank you for the opportunity to laugh.

Help me to find joy in everything that I do.

Let me laugh and be cheerful, so that those around me will be blessed by my smile and my optimism.

Amen.

~Kim Boyce

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Time, indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life. ~Sir John Lubbock

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If you can learn to laugh in spite of the circumstances that surround you, you will enrich others, enrich yourself, and more than that, you will last! ~Barbara Johnson

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Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow. ~James Michener

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God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar…. He designed us to be tremendously productive and “to mount up with wings like eagles,” realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential. ~Carol Kent

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. ~A.W. Tozer

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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.  ~Lewis Hine

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No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.  ~Robert Adams

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When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.  But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!  ~Ted Grant

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Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together?  I guess that wouldn’t work.  Someone would leave.  Someone always leaves.  Then we would have to say good-bye.  I hate good-byes.  I know what I need.  I need more hellos.  ~Charles M. Schulz

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Don’t thinks so much about who is for or against you; rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do. ~Thomas Á Kempis

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Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all; and to hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. ~G. K. Chesterton

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There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now. ~Henry Ward Beecher

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Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living. ~Elisabeth Elliot

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I know that God is faithful. I know that He answers prayers, many times in ways I may not understand. ~Sheila Walsh

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Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and in bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand. ~Beverly LaHaye

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~John Lubbock

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Time is a very precious gift of God, so precious that it’s only given to us moment by moment. ~Amelia Barr

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Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as to those whom God has given you to love. ~Henri J. M. Nouwen

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For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important. ~Lois Wyse

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There is nourishment from being encouraged and held up by others when we are weak. We are nourished from feedback from friends whom we trust and who will be honest with us. ~Rich G. Buhler

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It is not what we do that matters but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn’t want our success; He wants us. ~Charles Colson

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Moments spent listening, talking, playing, and sharing together may be the most important times of all. ~Gloria Gaither

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Each one of us is God’s special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives. ~Joni Eareckson Tada

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Eating lunch with a friend. Trying to do a decent day’s work. Hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly. ~Frederick Buechner

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You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you. ~John Powell, S.J.

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If you are seeking after God, you may be sure of this: God is seeking you much more. He is the Lover, and you are His beloved. He has promised Himself to you. ~John of the Cross

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Heavenly Father, Teach me not to procrastinate but to do what I can today, because there is no promise of tomorrow. Lead me to those people who are in need of something that I can give. I want to be available for You to use in any way that You should choose. Amen. ~Kim Boyce

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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives. ~Kathleen Norris

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Times of solitude help keep my focus on God during times when I am surrounded and overwhelmed by the cares and commitments of my life. ~Keri Wyatt Kent

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When you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ~Victor Hugo

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God is never in a hurry but spends years with those He expects to greatly use. He never thinks the days of preparation too long or too dull. ~Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

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God is every moment totally aware of each one of us. Totally aware in intense concentration and love. ~Eugenia Price

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The soul would have no rainbow had the eye no tear

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I don’t think there is anyone who needs God’s help and grace as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day. ~Mother Teresa

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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the waters of adversity and grief.

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It’s usually through our hard times, the unexpected and no-according-to-plan times, that we experience God in more intimate ways. We discover an unquenchable longing to know Him more. It’s a passion that isn’t concerned that life fall with certain predictable lines, but a passion that pursues God and knows He is relentless in His pursuit of each one of us.

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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways, they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy. ~Helen Keller

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Lord…give me the gift of faith to be renewed and shared with others each day. Teach me to live this moment only, looking neither to the past with regret nor the future with apprehension. Let love be my aim and my life a prayer. ~Roseann Alexander-Isham

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If it can be verified, we don’t need faith… Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, starting joys. ~Madeleine L’Engle

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Courage…is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. ~Harper Lee.

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[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold:  The heart is the only broken instrument that works.  ~T.E. Kalem

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All the absurd little meetings, decisions, and skirmishes that go to make up our days. It all adds up to very little, and yet it all adds up to very much. Our days are full of nonsense, and yet not, because it is precisely into the nonsense of our days that God speaks to us words of great significance. ~Frederick Buechner

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Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else’s life. ~Kobi Yamada

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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell

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Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare. She is almost three and twenty! Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three and twenty! ~Pride & Prejudice

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Part of our job is simply to be…always attentive to what we are doing and what is going on inside us at the same time we listen and pay attention to the people and events around us. Part of our job is to expect that, if we are attentive and willing, God will “give us prayer,” will give us the things we need, “our daily bread,” to heal and grow in love. ~Roberta Bondi

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You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~Christopher Robin

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Being grateful for what we have today doesn’t mean we have to have that forever. It means we acknowledge that what we have today is what we’re supposed to have today. There is enough…. And all we need will come to us. ~Melody Beattie

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