| QUOTES Faith is... Remembering I am God's priceless treasure when I feel utterly worthless. -Pamela Reeve There are no hopeless situations in life... only men who have grown hopeless about them. -A Barclay Comment Life is teaching you some painful lessons. But it is from adversity that strength is born. You may have lost the inning, but I know you'll win the game. -from PS I Love You Forgiveness is like the violet Sending forth its pure fragrance On the heel of the boot Of the one who crushed it. -Unknown A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. -Jean Paul Richter If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-Turns. -Bumper sticker The difference between holding on to a hurt or releasing it with forgiveness- is like the difference between laying your head down at night on a pillow filled with thorns or a pillow filled with rose petals. -Loren Fischer The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther Kin Character is what you are in the dark. -Dwight L. Moody Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us- that when one weeps the other will taste salt. -Unknown Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money. -Unknown The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. -Mignon McLaughlin Love never asks how much must I do, but how much can I do -Frederick A. Agar There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend. -Unknown Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. -Martin Luther Mother's arms are made for tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. -Victor Hugo There is no box made by God nor us but that the sides can be flattened out and the top blown off to make a dance floor on which to celebrate life. -Kenneth Caraway When one door closes, another opens but we looks so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this: irritations get into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. -Harry Emerson Fosdick An elderly lady was asked by a child if she were young or old. "My dear," she replied. "I have been young a very long time." -from PS I Love You A young man was desperately seeking God. He sought out a wise old man who lived in a nearby beach house and posed the question: "Old man, how can I see God?" The old man who obviously knew God at a depth few of us experience, pondered the question for a very long time. At last he responded quietly: "Young man, I am not sure that I can help you - for you see, I have a very different problem. I cannot not see him." -Unknown Home 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |