“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” -George Washington Carver
Inspirational thoughts
Silence and prayer
Silence is precious: by keeping silence and knowing how to listen to God, the soul grows in wisdom and God teaches it what it cannot learn from men. Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew
Following Jesus
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” Ernest Hemingway
Unanswered prayers..
“A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God’s power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Christian reactions…
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.” Viktor Frankl
Singing with God
“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain
Details in the home
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” (Louisa May Alcott)
Hot chocolate by the fireplace, a homemade apple pie, a nice flower decoration on the table, an advent wreath as the center piece…it’s the simple things that go a long way in a family’s happy hearth!
Jesus loves us whole-heartedly
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” Jane Austen
These words could easily be spoken by Christ towards his friends…is he your best friend?
Treating everyone with respect
“The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.” Hillaire Belloc
True character shows…
“I’ve learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!” Anne Frank