As those of you who have received emails from me may have noticed, I've had a quote in my signature file that appears at the bottom of emails I send. I usually change this quote once a month, although I've been lax about it the last year or so. Here are the quotes I've used already. Enjoy!

September 1999: "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe, and enough shadows to blind those who don't." -Blaise Pascal

October 1999: "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." - G.K. Chesterton

November and December 1999: "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." -Benjamin Disraeli

January 2000: "Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." -Finley Peter Dunne

February and March 2000: "Never 'for the sake of peace and quiet' deny your own experience or convictions" -Dag Hammarskjold

April and May 2000: "Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf of springtime." -Martin Luther

June and July 2000: "The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying." -John Flavel

August and September 2000: "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless." -Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

October and November 2000: "Christian morality is inseparable from the ethos of American freedom, which is imperiled by Christianity's retreat from public life." -Paul Johnson

December 2000 and January 2001: "Manger: a feeding trough large enough to hold the
Bread of Life." - Johnny Hart

February, March, and April 2001: "A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to everyone." -Martin Luther

May, June, July, August 2001: "Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

September 2001: "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi

October 2001: "The world is divided into people who think they are right." - Anonymous

November 2001: "Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously." -G.K. Chesterton

December 2001: "Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate." -G.K. Chesterton