Friday, August 10, 2007

Daily food for our mind and heart

August 1
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. (Helen Keller)

August 2
Is it possible that I am so busy doing that I no longer have time to enjoy being? (Wilson)

August 3
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to leave alone.

August 4
Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path.

August 5
Our children are living messages we send to a time and place we will never see.

August 6
Be assured, if you walk with Him, and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. (George Mueller)

August 7
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. (Indian Proverb)

August 8
Reprove a friend in secret, but praise him before others. (Leonardo da Vinci)

August 9
A man who falls in love with himself has no rivals.

August 10
Lord, give me the wisdom to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.

August 11
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure.

August 12
He who has little and says it is enough has more than he who has much and wants more.

August 13
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. (Henry Vaughan)

August 14
Good order is the foundation of all good things. (Edmund Burke)

August 15
...Every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it. (Elizabeth Shane)

August 16
Anger does as much damage to the vessel it is stored in as it does to anything it is poured upon.

August 17
Be assured when you see a tear on a cheek, a heart is touched.

August 18
Study the Bible to be wise, believe it to be safe, practice it to be holy.

August 19
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the existence of that goodness.

August 20
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnessess and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve tha heart and secure comfort. (Sir Humphrey Davy)

August 21
...Professors, after long years of teaching, are apt to confuse their lecture notes with the fountain of truth. It is an occupational disease. (Clyde M. Christenson)

August 22
Give your troubles to God; He will be up all night anyway.

August 23
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV)

August 24
God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. (O. Chambers)

August 25
A look of love will, at times, have a better effect than all the prescriptions of a physician on one that ails.

August 26
One must never be in haste to end a day; there are too few of them in a lifetime. (Dale Rex Coman)

August 27
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. (Chinese Proverb)

August 28
God speaks to us in our joy but shouts to us in our pain.

August 29
A child is the root of the heart. (Caroline Maria de Jesus)

August 30
The lens of fear magnifies the size of the uncertainty. (Charles Swindoll)

August 31
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings. (Helen Hayes)

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