"Beautiful"
Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there;
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true;
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another's woe.
Author Unknown
Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there;
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true;
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another's woe.
Author Unknown
"Empathizing Kindness"
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joy of others.
Andre Gide
"Measuring Achievement"
Human dignity... can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
Arnold J. Toynbee
"Widen Your Hearts"
Paul's phrase, "widen your hearts," is so loose, so non-technical, so undefined, so ... wide open, as to invite—or coerce—some outlay of cogitation on my part. What it means to "widen your heart" I am evidently free to explore without restriction, since I am so unlikely to go too far with it that, as with other virtues Paul names elsewhere, "against such things there is no law" (Galatians 5:23).
I discover there are two ways of seeing my brother. There is the "merely human" way (1 Corinthians 3; 4)—a severe, loveless accuracy. A clinical fixation on the wart on his nose. A covering the sun with one finger, as a Mexican boy once told me. Then there is the "wide" way. It sees possibility; it is full of self-knowledge; it "believes all things, hopes all things" (1 Corinthians 13:7); it regards the other as "a new creation" (2 Corinthians 5:17) and abandons the tired modes of "measuring" and "comparing" (2 Corinthians 10:12). It is the difference between mercy and justice, kindness and shrewdness, remembering one's own reflection in the mirror and forgetting.
Andree Seu
"Justice And Mercy"
Let your love of justice be exceeded only by your love of mercy.
Anonymous
Anonymous
"Bless Refuge"
It is in the shelter of each other that people live.
An Irish Proverb
"Do Your Part"
We should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world."
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
"Scan The Room"
...when you walk into church on Sunday...Instead of worrying about whether your seat is taken, or if you look good, you scan the room for people who appear to be lonely or miserable...chances are there is someone in your congregation who could use a little random act of love.
Andree Seu
"We Need Grace"
We need grace in order to be able to live in such a way as to qualify ourselves to receive grace.
Aldous Huxley
"Great Gain"God's Way is gain that works no harm.
Lao-tzu
"Mean
or Sad?"
Believe
me, every heart has its secret sorrow which the world knows not; and oftentimes
we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
"Sorrow's
Holy Opportunity"
Where
there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Oscar
Wilde
"Warmed
By The Fire of Sympathy"
We
must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right conditions
and angles of vision.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Forgive
To Be Forgiven"
We
are all steeped in weaknesses and errors. Let us forgive one another’s follies.
Voltaire