The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Augustine

The vigour of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
George Mueller

Half of love is listening.
Carol Weston

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish you to be.
Thomas a Kempis

A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: "Love is what you've been through with somebody."
James Thurber

The thousand-mile journey starts with one step.
Japanese proverb

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal

One reason I don't drink is I want to know when I'm having a good time.
Nancy Astor

So I cried- it's better to be sensitive than unfeeling.
Carol Weston

That it will never come again
is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is like a sundial by moonlight.
D.L. Moody

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

A lie may well fool someone else, but it tells the truth about you to you.
John Wesley Harding

True friendship is measured, over time, by its effect on you. Has the association in some way changed...you?
Philip Yancey

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good?' Have they never been to a dentist?
C.S.Lewis

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
C.S.Lewis

Virtue- even attempted virtue- brings light, indulgence brings fog.
-C.S.Lewis

The bad part of it, especially for me, lies in the fact that science of all things seems to demand the existence of God...
Sigmund Freud, letters

Read not to contradict- but to weigh and consider.
-Sir Francis Bacon

I had a very pleasant evening, though... there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
-Jane Austen

We do need to guard against making absolutes out of personal standards that are not specified in Scripture, or assuming that others are sinning if they don’t adopt our standards about issues that may not be traps for them. But why are we so prone to defend choices that take us right to the edge of sin, and so reluctant to make radical choices to protect our hearts and minds from sin?
-Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Efficiency is just doing the right thing. Excellence is doing the right thing at the right time, and doing it well.
-Stephen Anderson

A woman was given not for a man’s whims but for his character. She elevates him in true masculinity. It takes a woman to make a real man. This is God’s design, and we tamper with it at our peril.
-Richard D. Phillips and Sharon L. Phillips

A vital Christian, radiating that hidden beauty of the heart, is more attractive to the right sort of Christian man (the only kind you want) than the raving beauty who is hollow within. A woman who is developing her domestic abilities, who is reasonably attractive, and who is a vital Christian in her own right is an irresistible person.
-Jay E. Adams

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Abraham Lincoln

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-Mother Teresa

If Christians spend as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about.