Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.
There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, And every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.
Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.
You can never begin to live until you dare to die.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.
Hours fly, Flowers die: New days, New ways: Pass by! Love stays.
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.
A tear that trembles for a little while Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world Wavers within its circle like a dream, Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.
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