"Love one another. As I have Loved you, so you also should love
one another." "...It is more blessed to give than to receive."
"...I came into the world to testify to the truth. Anyone committed
to the truth hears my voice." ~JESUS ~
"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." ~Louis Nizer
"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose." ~William M. Bulger
"This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day,thou canst not then be false to any man." ~William Shakespeare
"In War:Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance.
In Victory:Magnanimity. In Peace:Goodwill."
~Sir Winston Churchill
"When we do the best we can,we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,or in the life of another." ~Helen Keller
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." ~Robert F. Kennedy
"If we had no winter,the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~Charlotte Bronte
"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are: first;hard work,
"...have the courage and the wisdom,and the vision to raise a
definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man,
and then strive mightily toward that goal." ~Harold E. Stassen
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."~Elizabeth Bibesco
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to
persist, but the ability to start over."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Faith is the daring-of-the-soul to go farther than it can see." ~ William Newton Clark
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~William Morrow
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small (minded) people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great." ~Mark Twain
"Defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out." ~Al Gore
"The best portion of a good man's life are the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." ~William Wordsworth
"It is only through labor and prayerful effort, by grim energy
and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
~Theodore Roosevelt
"The greatest reward for a person's work is not what you get from it, but what you become by it." ~Bob Wieland
"In life, if you put yourself in harmony with the natural way of things, you get a much better result than if you try to go against that." ~Francis Ford Coppola
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." "The difference between the right word and almost-the-right-word, is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
~Mark Twain
" All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win
in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."
~Edmund Burke
"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But, sooner or later the man who wins,
is the man who thinks he can." ~Vince Lombardi
"A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within the secret of human nature." ~Maria Montessori
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness, and just
be happy." ~Guillaume Apollinaire
"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life...he will lose his reverence for all life."
~Albert Schweitzer
"...the validity of a human system is dependent on the logic of the rules governing the system...Principles, both moral & scientific, have correctness only in so far as they are justified in everyday experience,"
~Albert Einstein
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes,
but also the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
~Helen Keller
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."
~Albert Einstein
"Why do you take by force that which you could attain by love?"
~Powhatan
"We should not let our fears hold us back from
pursuing our hopes." ~John F. Kennedy
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees
all the others." ~Sir Winston Churchill
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." ~Richard Bach
"The best prophet of the future is the past." Old, Chinese Proverb
"The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed." --- "VISION IS MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE."
GOD, cause and effect, and gravity, are forever the rulers in our lives, and in the universe. The truth is always the truth, regardless of misunderstanding, ignorance, or disbelief. jJCn
"By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established..." Proverbs 24:3, RSV
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." ~Helen Keller
"...Respect one another...Return to the virtues that made America great. Our mission...Our responsibility: to make bad men, good, and good men, better...to reach-out to those who need help."
"My fellow Americans... Pursuing peace, prosperity, and democracy are not new goals. They've been at the heart of an American foreign policy
that down through the years has sought to promote individual freedom and human progress in the world..." President Ronald Reagan, 9/29/1984
"To all those who inhabit our land from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulfstream waters, let us provide new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers and the natural resources that are the greatest gift of this continent. We must insist that our children and our grandchildren shall inherit a land which they can truly call America the beautiful..." Senator Edward M. Kennedy, to DNC 8/12/1980.
"...The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without anything more from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain
inviolate the relations of peace and amity toward other nations..." Pres' George Washington, 1796
..."We have faced great challenges together. We know that future problems will also be
difficult, but I am now more convinced than ever that the United States -- better than any other nation -- can meet successfully whatever the future might bring."...
President Jimmy Carter, January 14th,1981
"...But I think that Points of Light are all of these things and
yet still something more. It's what happens when ordinary people
claim the problems of their community as their own. And it's the
inspiration and awakening to the God-given light from within, lit
"BE THE CHANGE THAT YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD." ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
"If you do something with noble intentions whatever happens, it's OK." ~David Bloom
BloomMobile, NBC War Reporter
"THE BEST REASON FOR DOING WHAT'S RIGHT TODAY, IS TOMORROW." 'Our Daily Bread'
"You cannot change what you will not confront." ~Pastor John Hagee
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, BUT TO LIVE BY THEM." ~ John F. Kennedy
There are those things that bother you, and should not; and then, there are those things that do not bother you, but should. You know what they are. jJCn
"Genius is knowing the answer before the question." ~J. Robert Oppenheimer
"God lights the Sun with atomic energy!"
~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1954
"AN EYE FOR AN EYE CAN LEAD TO A BLIND WORLD." ~Ghandi
"He who angers you, controls you." Marquee, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
"...God is not part of nature; God controls nature because He made it..." 'Day of Discovery'
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes-out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep-down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
"...time; the numbering of motion between the past and the future."
~Aristotle
"Don't doubt in the darkness what you believed in the light."
Marquee, First United Methodist Church
THE SPEECH THAT PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY DID NOT DELIVER. November 22nd, 1963
"We in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, goodwill toward men." ~President John F. Kennedy
"Life's Purpose; TO LOVE, AND BE LOVED."
Fr. Angelus Shaughnessy, OFM Cap; EWTN
Successful people learn from their mistakes sooner, rather than later. Unsuccessful people
do not learn, even later, from their mistakes; all-too-often repeating the same ones. jJCn
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No man is poor who has had a Godly mother."
~Abraham Lincoln
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." ~John F. Kennedy
"Wisdom stood with God before the world was made. Before God created the Earth, or made the waters
and the skies, Wisdom was there." Proverbs 8:22-31
"Mr.Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
President Reagan speaking at the Berlin Wall
June 12,1987
Love's Power: the only way to truly change things for the better. jJCn
"HUMILITY IS THE MOTHER OF SALVATION."
ST. BERNARD
WISDOM 101
"Every visible thing in the world is in the charge of an angel."
~Saint Augustine
"Little things done well, done often, done out of Love, are pleasing to God."
~St. Therese, the Little Flower
"...From the same mouth come Blessing and cursing..." ~James 3:10
'A Basis for One's Self-Image' ; "I am not who I think I am. I am not who YOU think I am. I AM who I THINK you think I am." ~Robert Bierstedt, Author and Writer
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