Thought for the Week Archive
October 15, 2005: Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
October 15, 2005: What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and love mercy and walk humbly with your God. — Micah 6:8
October 15, 2005: The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not protect you.
October 15, 2005: See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.
October 15, 2005: “Worry Less. Pray More.” — Life's Little Advice Calendar
October 17, 2005: To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
October 28, 2005: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain
November 3, 2005: If you would plant for days, plant flowers; if you would plant for years, plant trees; if you would plant for eternity, plant ideas.
November 7, 2005: Don't ask the Lord to guide your footsteps unless you are willing to move your feet.
November 14, 2005: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. — Rober Louis Stevenson
November 21, 2005: Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
December 5, 2005: And Mary said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.... For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. — Luke 1:46-49
December 19, 2005: Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To every child, a good example. To all, charity. To your Lord, your all.
January 3, 2006: Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person. — Benjamin Franklin
January 9, 2006: Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa
January 24, 2006: The time is always right to do what is right. — Martin Luther King Jr.
February 3, 2006: Education is not filling a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — ~William Butler Yeats~
February 10, 2006: A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
February 13, 2006: Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
February 24, 2006: Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, who under a just God, can not long retain it. — Abraham Lincoln
March 6, 2006: Truly, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me. — Matthew 25:40
March 21, 2006: May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you. — Irish Blessing
April 7, 2006: Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
April 19, 2006: When Jesus knew that it was not possible for the cup to pass from Him, with love to God, He held it fast, and with love to man He drank it all. — Alexander Dickson
May 12, 2006: A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
May 19, 2006: Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
June 9, 2006: May the LORD bless you and keep you; May the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; May the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace. — Numbers 6:24-26
September 5, 2006: Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — St. Francis of Assisi
September 12, 2006: This is the miracle that always happens to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke
October 3, 2006: Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. — Tyron Edwards
October 13, 2006: “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. ” — Calvin Coolidge
October 17, 2006: Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
October 23, 2006: The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. — Plutarch
October 30, 2006: “True heroism is . . . very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. ” — Arthur Ashe
November 10, 2006: Patience and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. — John Quincy Adams
November 13, 2006: No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. — W. H. Auden
January 5, 2007: Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
January 9, 2007: Teach what you believe. Practice what you teach.
January 30, 2007: What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Joseph Addison
February 19, 2007: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln
March 9, 2007: My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. — Jimmy Carter
March 26, 2007: Always pay two things promptly: debts and compliments. — Life's Little Instruction Calendar
May 4, 2007: Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. — Martin Luther King Jr.
May 11, 2007: A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces that she never did care for pie.
June 12, 2007: What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. — Eleanor Powell
December 6, 2007: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
December 10, 2007: Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. — Jimmy Johnson
December 19, 2007: Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. — William Penn
January 3, 2008: Don't start living tomorrow; tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today.
January 21, 2008: Character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
February 11, 2008: If you have love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you do have. — Sir James M. Barrie
February 18, 2008: It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. — George Washington
March 10, 2008: One kind word can warm 3 winter months.
April 4, 2008: If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Qunicy Adams
May 2, 2008: Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6
June 9, 2008: Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. — Walter Bagehot
June 20, 2008: Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Suess