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Change your thoughts and you change your world !
- Vincent Van Peale
A smile is the beginning of peace -
Mother Teresa
Nothing is worth more than this day
- Goethe
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either
a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
Every thing there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
- Langston Hughes
It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it, one
must work for it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the
life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit content, and
if each and all be aware I sit content. Walt Whitman
Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but
today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
From the Sanskrit
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.
Martin Luther
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The moment I realized God existed, I knew that
I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words
as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy---like a child, hand
and hand with his mother.
Charles De Foucauld
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the
people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
If we do not radiate the Light of Christ
around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase.
Mother Teresa
The real troublemakers
are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately
our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion,
sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
The Dalai Lama
God
comes into our lives when we do things that make us truly human. When we help the poor, when we speak out for justice, when
we get over our exaggerated sense of our own importance, when we learn to respond with child-like awe to the sun shining in
the summer or to the snow falling in winter, when we get over being stuck on ourselves, we make room in our lives for God.
Rabbi H.Kushner
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant
over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land. Most of these people will never
make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light
of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live -- men and women will know and children will be taught that we
have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization -- because these humble children of God were willing to suffer
for righteousness' sake.
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Dec 1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King
The intellect
has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the
solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. Albert Einstein
It is difficult to make a man miserable while
he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
Avoiding danger is
no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
You never find yourself until you face the truth
Pearl Bailey
I have sometimes been wildly, desparingly, acutely miserable... but through it all
I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
Suffering, pain, sorrow,
humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that you have come so close that He can kiss
you.
Mother Teresa
For me prayer is an upward leap of the heart.
St. Terese of Lisieux
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Annie Dillard
O beloved, why has not Love sufficiently overwhelmed you and engulfed you in her abyss?
Alas! And why do you not touch God deeply enough in the abyss of His Nature, which is so unfathomable? Sweet love, give yourself
for Loves's sake fully to God in love...
Hadewijch (Thirteenth Century poet and mystic)
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days...What
you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has Magic, Power, and Genius in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide
what happens in us..how we can take it, what we do with it..and that is what really counts in the end.
Joseph Fort Newton
Every thing there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
Langston Hughes
One who commences prayer should imagine that for the delight of his Lord, he
is starting to plant a garden in some very unfruitful soil, full of weeds. His Majesty must be asked to pull up the bad plants,
and put good ones in their place. But we will suppose this is already done, when a soul has not only determined, but is resolved
to make use of mental prayer. And now, by God's help, we must endeavor, like good gardeners, to make these plants grow. We
should take care to water them, so they will not wither, but bring forth flowers of such sweet frangrance as may please our
Lord. Then He may take pleasure in often coming into this garden, and delighting Himself with our virtues.
St. Teresa
of Avila(Doctor of the Church)
So these are ours; faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is Love.
St.
Paul Corinthians 13:13
And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God;
for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that
space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating,
a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.
St. Augustine
Owe nothing
to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "You shall not
commit adultery,: you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not convet, and whatever other commandment there may
be, are summed up in this one saying, (namely)" You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no evil to the neighbor:
hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.
St. Paul, Romans13 8:10
When you can feel the warmth of the sunshine,
but cannot see it. Or feel the coolness of a gentle breeze, but cannot grasp it. When our dreams are just a fleeting thought
that no longer matters. Remember to deeply reach within, to stretch your mind, to awaken the real you, as we say goodnight
to self doubt and the inner blindness.
Mary
This might sound arrogant, but I told the terrorist. "You can harm my body,you can
harm my mind, but you can't harm my soul. That is mine."
Terry Waite - International humanitarian envoy who became a hostage
himself trying to bring other hostages to freedom in Beirut. He spent five years as a hostage, four in solitary confinement.
The righteous will never be moved: they will be remembered forever
Psalm 112:6
You can't hold a man down
without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you
is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4 NKJV
A vessel full of living water is empty of all
else. Danny Lee
Anyone who says that sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Unknown
When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
I
discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop. kahlil Gibran
For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.
LUKE 12:34
God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
Julian of Norwich
If God created
the shadows, it was to bring out the light.
John XXIII
At the end of our life we shall all be judged by charity.
St. John of the Cross
You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on
inside.
anonymous
In times of quietness, our hearts should be like a tree,lifting their branches to heaven to
draw down strength which they will need to face the storms that will surely come in life.
Salesians of Don Bosco
Look
within!... The secret is inside you.
Hui-neng
Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful
hand.
Horace
I love you, Lord, my strength, Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliver, My God, my rock of refuge,
my shield, my saving horn, my stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I exclaim!
I have been delivered from my enemies.
David's
song after the Lord rescued him from the clutches of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul in Psalm 18 3:4
"My
soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. - Mary, mother of Jesus in Luke 1 46:49
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God - Jesus Sermon
on the Mount, Matthew 5:1 - 7:29
May God bless you with the gift of his love, faith and hope
Please pray for
peace in our world. Pray especially for peace in our own hearts, because a peaceful world depends on individual peace.
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