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June 30, 2005 The money we make only serves us well as we use it to serve others.
June 29, 2005 The hardest thing to learn in life
Is which bridges to cross,
And which to burn.
-David Russell
June 28, 2005 Faith is to believe what you do not see;
The reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-Augustine
June 27, 2005 Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace;
From oneself, wisdom.
June 26, 2005 If God loves best in community,
Who are we to set up ourselves as spiritual loners?
-Jane McAlister Pope
June 25, 2005 Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
-Euripides
June 24, 2005 If you do not want the fruit of sin,
Stay out of the orchard.
June 23, 2005 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us,
We often find it's those who, instead of giving advice, solutions or cures,
Have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds
With a warm and tender hand.
-Henri Nouwen
June 22, 2005 Don't worry about what you do not understand in the Bible;
Worry instead about what you do understand but do not live by.
June 21, 2005 A person who is always finding fault
Seldom finds anything else.
June 20, 2005 Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
-Fyodor Dostoevski
June 19, 2005 Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege,
Than the raising of the next generation.
-C. Everett Koop
June 18, 2005 Running from God is the longest race of all.
-Theodore Roethke
June 17, 2005 Do not have your concert first and tune your instrument afterward.
Begin the day with God.
-J. Hudson Taylor
June 16, 2005 The best exercise to strengthen the heart
Is reaching down to lift others up.
June 15, 2005 Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well,
But the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
-Vaclav Havel
June 14, 2005 Only he who believes is obedient.
Only he who is obedient believes.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
June 13, 2005 Christians may not always see eye to eye,
But they can always walk arm in arm.
June 12, 2005 Gratitude is the highest form of prayer.
It opens the door from the inside,
So that we may receive the abundance which is waiting for us.
-Laurel Keyes
June 11, 2005 Thank God we never face a temptation we can't escape.
June 10, 2005 The pilgrim who spends all his time counting his steps will make little progress.
-Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus
June 9, 2005 Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor;
Act as if you did.
When you are behaving as if you loved someone,
You will presently come to love him.
-C.S. Lewis [Adapted]
June 8, 2005 Failure is delay, not defeat.
-Denis Waitley
June 7, 2005 God often visits us;
But most of the time we are not home.
-Joseph Roux
June 6, 2005

If you can find a path with no obstacles,
It probably doesn't lead anywhere.
-Frank A. Clark

 

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