Quotes

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“We see in the risen Christ the end for which man was made, and the assurance that the end is within our reach. ”

- Brooke Foss Westcott

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“Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.”

- Roger Staubach

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“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

- Allan K. Chalmers

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“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.”

- Albert Schweitzer

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“I see something of God each hour of the Twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in My own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street and every One is signed by God's name. ”

- Walt Whitman

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“Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it, and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim.” — Will Durant

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. — Helen Keller

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“Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the [censored] will not crow, till you have denied me three times. ”

- John 13:38

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“The big agenda item is God and His glory, not me and my comfort. ”

- Max Lucado

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“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”

- Katherine Hepburn

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“The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.”

- J.I. Packer

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“Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism.”

- John Baines

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“The question for the child is not "Do I want to be good?" but "Whom do I want to be like?"”

- Bruno Bettelheim

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“O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! ”

- "America the Beautiful," Katharine Lee Bates

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“I am not here anymore. Somewhere else is where I am. A place so hard to find, you cannot see me here or visit me there or wish me out of this anywhere. If this is where I am supposed to be, why can't I find me? ”

- Joanne Koenig Coste

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“Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number two killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. ”

- Arlen Specter

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“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”

- Oliver Goldsmith

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“A waist is a terrible thing to mind.”

- Tom Wilson

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“We call this time Advent because it reminds us of what comes from God for the creation of his kingdom on earth. ”

- C.F. Blumhardt

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“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

- Colin Powell

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“A single day is enough to make us a little larger.”

- Paul Klee

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“Do not be one who stretches out his hands to receive but closes them when it comes to giving. ”

- The Didache

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“You can't win if you don't play as a unit.”

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

- Vince Lombardi