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Quotes of the month
Thanksgiving is good but thanks-living is better. - Matthew Henry
Christians should have a gratitude attitude. - Stuart Briscoe
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. – Count Leo Tolstoi
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord. - J I Packer
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. - Ambrose
The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit. - D L Moody
Our ministry is as our heart is. No man rises much above the level of his own habitual godliness. - Thomas Wilson
Revival is a series of new beginnings. - David McKee
If you lay yourself at Christ’s feet he will take you into his arms. - William Bridge
Christian teaching alone, in its majestic integrity, can give full meaning and compelling motive to the demand for human rights and liberties, because it alone gives worth and dignity to human personality. - Pope Pius XI
The cross is the centre of the world’s history. The incarnation of Christ and the crucifixion of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. - Alexander MacLaren
Calvary shows how far men will go in sin, and how far God will go for man’s salvation. - H C Trumbull
Culture is ‘to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.’ - Matthew Arnold
Make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life – a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end. - T T Munge.
Individuals may perish; but truth is eternal. - French proverb
The music teacher came twice each week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin. - Geoge Ade
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. - Grayson Kirk
The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. - Will Rogers
To the victor belong the toils. - Adlai E Stevenson
On a certain occasion in the House of Commons, Churchill said something which caused another Member to jump to his feet bursting so strongly with disagreement as to be almost unintelligible. “My right honourable friend,” said Churchill, “should not develop more indignation than he can contain.”
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. - Harold Macmillan
Campaign tactics: he who slings mud generally loses ground. - Adlai Stevenson
The reason we are so pleased to find out other people’s secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. - Oscar Wilde
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. - Montesquieu
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: “My dear, we live in an age of transition.” – W R Inge
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. - Aneurin Bevan
The important and decisive factor in life is not what happens to us, but the attitude we take toward what happens. The surest revelation of one’s character is the way one bears one’s suffering. Circumstances and situations may colour life, but by the grace of God, we have been given the power to choose what that colour shall be. The effect that misfortune, handicap, sickness and sorrow have upon life is determined by the way in which we meet them. - Charles R Woodson
A guilty conscience never feels secure. - Publius Syrus
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. - Saki
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