bentonfirstumc

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Daphne Rose Kingma

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

Myrlie Evers

Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

On thee alone my hope relies;
Beneath thy cross I fall,
My Lord, my life, my sacrifice,
My Saviour, and my all.

Anne Steele

Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Anne Frank

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Margaret Cousins

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

C.S. Lewis

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels