1. Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. --John Wesley
2. "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." ~ John Burroughs
3. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
--Helen Keller
4. "A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life." ~Henry Ward Beecher
5. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well!'
- Martin Luther King, Jr
6. * A statesman is a person who sees the way things are and can imagine the way things should be, and steps in to bridge the gap between the two. * Dr. DeMille
7. God always has a plan, it's just we aren't always given the full road map. :o)
8. The most valuable learning is not about memorizing facts and figures.
It is not about higher grade point averages and accumulating degrees.
It is about life itself, and its impact is on the heart.
9. Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating. - Barbara Lamping
10. Heaven and Hell
A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like."
The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table with a large pot of stew, which smelled delicious. The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms. Each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful. But, because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord said, "You have seen Hell."
They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large post of stew. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.
The holy man said, "I don't understand."
"It is simple", said the Lord. "It requires but one skill. You see they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves."
~Author Unknown~
11. "Life happens in the clutter." ~Lori D.~
12. "Mountains test our strength, valleys test our faith, and plains test our patience." -Alan Anderson
13. "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives. --Kathleen Norris
14. A life of discipleship is a constant receiving of the gift God has offered us in Jesus and then the ongoing offering of ourselves back as gift to God and to one another. It is a life of receptivity, of transformation, and of communion.
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