Miscellaneous Authors

Miscellaneous Authors

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.  - Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. – Mark Twain

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. – Charles Dickens

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. – Oswald Chambers

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God – Brother Lawrence

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it. – Mathew Henry

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.  – Martin Luther King Jr.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln

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

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. – C.S. Lewis

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. – William Shakespeare

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one.  – A. W. Tozar

Change your thoughts and you change your world.  – Norman Vincent Pearle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. – Kahlil Gibran

At the close of life the question will be not, how much you have got, but how much you have given; not how much you have won, but how much you have done; not how much you have saved, but how much you have sacrificed; how much you have loved and served, not how much you were honored. - Nathan C. Schaeffer

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea. – Helen Keller

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.  – Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. – Winston Churchill

The mountains are God's thoughts piled up. The ocean is God's thoughts spread out. The flowers are God's thoughts in bloom. The dew drops are God's thoughts in pearls. - Sam Jones

Love is the absence of judgment. – Dalai Lama

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. – Nelson Mandela

A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought. – Thomas A Kempis

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.  – Max Lucado

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job. – Anne Rice

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. – A. W. Tozar

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. – Martin Luther

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.  – Ernest Holmes

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.  – Maya Angelou

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.  – Norman Vincent Peale

After a Storm comes a Calm. – Mathew Henry

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. – Kahlil Gibran

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson 

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