God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
Oswald Chambers
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
The New Revised Standard Version
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.
Edmund Spenser
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Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Phillips Brooks
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste. In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.
Proverbs 24:13-14
The New Living Translation
Rabbi Eleazar said: “Repent one day before your death.” Said his pupils: “Does man know when he would die?” He answered: “Then he surely must repent today, lest he die tomorrow.”
Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
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Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.
Charles H. Spurgeon
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.”
Luke 8:11-15
The New International Version
A wise man should have money in his head; but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
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Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk observed a villager praying most fervently during Yom Kippur services. Knowing that this man was uneducated and could barely read Hebrew, the Rabbi’s curiosity was aroused. After services, he questioned the villager. The man confessed: “Rabbi, since I can’t read too well, I recited the letters of the alphabet over and over, and beseeched the Almighty to arrange them into the appropriate words of the prayers.” Rabbi Mendel said: “Your prayer was more acceptable than mine because you uttered it with the entire devotion of your heart.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.
Proverbs 25:28
The New Living Translation
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
Unknown
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That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the promotion of evangelical truth.
Richard Mant
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:31
The Revised Standard Version
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.
Francis Quarles
“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.”
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
The New King James Version
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
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Learn to live for your own sake and the service of God; and let nothing in the world be of any value with you but that which you can turn into a service to God, and a means of your future happiness.
William Law
O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Psalm 136:1
The New Revised Standard Version
The evil impulse is at first like a passer-by, then like a lodger, and finally like the master of the house.
The Talmud
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Let us not deceive ourselves by pretending to this excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord, if we do not frame our lives according to it.
John Tillotson
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
The King James Version
Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he does to himself.
Yiddish proverb
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The only sure way to take fear out of living is to keep a respectful fear of God in our lives, which means to maintain a reverent attitude toward his place and influence. This brand of fear is a healthy ingredient, a deterrent to want, a spur to courage and confidence, an insurance against loss, and source of comfort and understanding.
Eugene Asa Carr
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10
The English Standard Version
Returning good for good is human; returning good for evil is divine.
Unknown
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Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us.
A. J. Cronin
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5
The New International Version
Kindness is simply love flowing out in little gentlenesses.
Unknown
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