Living in Love

 "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

                                                                                           James Baldwin

A Perspective For Living Each Day

 "A commitment to kindness does not mean surrendering your convictions."

                                                                                     David French

Thought For Each Today

 "Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now."  

                                                                                                               Jack Kerouac

Thought For A Generation

 "Our phones have created what I like to call SADD--SOCIAL ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER."

                                                                                                                             Dan Levy

A Challenging Thought For Challenging Times

 "Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”

                                                                        A.C. Benson

Growth vs. The Pursuit Of Normal: Thought For The Day

 "Normal is a myth."

            Willliam Paul Young

             The Shack

Growth Thought For The Day

 "Faith does not grow in the house of certainty."

                                                  William Paul Young

                                                  The Shack

A Perspective on Personal Growth

 "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

                                                         Fred DeVito

A Thought For 2022

 "Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures."

                                                                       Vincent van Gogh

The Exercise of Faith

 "Faith is not a leap into the dark, but into the light."

                                                    John Polkinghorne

Thought For The Day

 “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones.”

 

                                                                                                            John Lennon

Thought For The Day

 "Happiness is not a goal, it's a by-product."

                                        Eleanor Roosevelt

Words From and For the Wise

 "Be careful how you use words and time.  You can't get either of them back."

                                                                                                Bil and Jeff Keane

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Becoming Ourselves

"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become--because He made us. He invented all the different people the you and I were intended to be.... It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own."

                                                                                                              C.S. Lewis

                                                                                                              Mere Christianity

The Power of Truth

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

                                                                                                     Ayn Rand

Vision

"While in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred--like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope."
                                                                                           C.S. Lewis

A Doctor's Advice

"Let's get it right.... Never be cruel, never be cowardly.... Remember, hate is always foolish, and love is always wise.... Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind...."

                                                                                 Dr. Who
                                                                                 (From one doctor to the next)

To Think About

"Human progress isn't measured by industry.  It's measured by the value you place on a life.  An unimportant life.  A life without privilege."

                                                                                                 Dr. Who

Thought For The Day

"No road is long with good company."

                                Turkish Proverb

Thoughts For People Pleasers

"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please."

                                                                                                   Mahatma Gandhi


"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody."
                                                                                                    Henry Bayard Swope


"Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good thing for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

                                                                                                    C.S. Lewis


Quotes courtesy of Les and Leslie Parrott, You Matter More Than You Think