August

We must always aim those things that bring peace and that help to strengthen one another (Rom 14:19).

Love is the greatest of all virtues. Genuine love is unselfish and generous. Love desires peace and concord and is ever ready to help and support others. Really good people spread goodness around. They strengthen each other, and do not think, "The other’s weakness is my strength." They desire not only their own good but also the good of others. If I want to live in peace, I must help others also to live in peace.

—George Kaitholil

Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven’t even begun to live. —William Merrill

The world is as large as the range of one’s interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The wall of his world shuts out the broader horizon of affairs. Prejudice can maintain walls that no invention can remove. —Joseph Jastrow

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you can neither dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it—drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. —John Ruskin

The world has a habit of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, that is what you will get, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory.

—Preston Bradley