Love Thy Neighbor
Thy Immigrant Neighbor
Thy Black Neighbor
Thy Atheist Neighbor
Thy Muslim Neighbor
Thy Depressed Neighbor
Thy Asian Neighbor
Thy LGBTQIA Neighbor
Thy Disabled Neighbor
Thy Indigenous Neighbor
Thy Jewish Neighbor
Thy Political Neighbor
Thy Elderly Neighbor
Thy Homeless Neighbor
Thy Latino Neighbor
Thy Addicted Neighbor
Thy Millennial Neighbor
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. — CS Lewis (in Mere Christianity)
“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” ― Timothy Keller
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” –Emerson“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.” — Andrew Carnegie
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” — Socrates
“Treating children even-handedly doesn’t always translate into treating them equally.” Ask Amy WaPo 2019 Sept
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. — Henry Ford
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. — Edmund Burke
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. –Dr. Seuss
“I wholly disapprove of what you say — and will defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending” -CS Lewis
“All things are difficult before they are easy”
–Thomas Fuller
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Everything is hard before it is easy — Goethe
As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do. — Charles R. Swindoll
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
– Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, UMBC President (http://www.umbc.edu/studentlife/orgs/bsu/speaker.html)
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. — Corrie Ten Boom
“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.” “Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion”…”Safe?” said Mr Beaver …”Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” — CS Lewis
Q. What is the chief end of man? A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. — Westminster Catechism
There are things you can’t reach, but you can reach out to them.– Mary Oliver
Barn’s burnt down –now I can see the moon. — Mizuta Masahide
Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it’s learning how to dance in the rain.–Vivian Greene
Enough is as good as a feast.–Mary Poppins
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.–Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.”~Amy Carmichael
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”– AA Milne in Winnie the Pooh
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
— William Morris
It has been said that there are only two lasting bequests that we can leave our offspring — one is roots, the other wings.— Dr. John Santrock
God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.– Oswald Chambers
Give Thanks
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, For love and friends,
For everything
Thy goodness sends.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I make myself rich by making my wants few. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Lawyer and activist Vernon Jordan on the collaborative nature of life:
“You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It’s the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.”
Source: 2002 speech at Howard University (via James Clear)
