Sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, speaking a true word, or making a friend.
John Ruskin

Half of love is listening.
Carol Weston

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Live every day so that when people speak evil of you no one will believe it.

“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”
~Abraham Lincoln

Character is simply habit long continued.
-- Plutarch

Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture, dignity and love.
-- John Milton

Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.
Jim Elliot

"The real character of a man is found out by his amusement."
-Joshua Reynolds

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."
-John Calvin

"Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way."
-Lee Venden