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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

Jean Pierre de Caussade

God takes life’s pieces and gives us unbroken peace.

When thoughts enter my mind uninvited, I do my best not to let them get comfortable there.

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, you’ve never had a mosquito in your bedroom.

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.”

“You can’t unsay a cruel thing.”

No credit? No problem…Jesus paid it all.

The secret of peace within, and power without, is to be always and only occupied with Christ. ~E. Schuyler English

You are not finished when you lose. You are finished when you quit.

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Thomas Watson

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom

“God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.” John Ortberg

“Rejoice in knowing that you belong to God and that He is conforming you to the image of His Son. See every event of this day as part of that process. Yield to the Spirit’s prompting, and take heart that God will accomplish His will.” John MacArthur

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

“If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”

George Gobel

I’ve been up and down so many times that I feel as if I’m in a revolving door…

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert

“I didn’t accept it. I received it.”

Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to former President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan.

“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite”

Murray Walker, Sportscaster

“They are not jackbooted Nazi thugs. They are merely German policemen in spiffy uniforms here to help us.”

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

Dan Quayle

“I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.”

Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.

We’re just physically not physical enough.

Denny Crum

“Traffic is very heavy at the moment, so if you are thinking of leaving now, you’d better set off a few minutes earlier.”

Anonymous Traffic Report

“We are sorry to announce that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover.”

Parish Magazine

You guys are unique in your own way

Mia Hammond

I cannot tell you how grateful I am — I am filled with humidity.

Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House

“I don’t know all the certain words to word it.”

Vanilla Ice, Rap Star, on why he hired a ghostwriter for his autobiography

“We didn’t lose, we weren’t beaten, we just came in second.”

U.S. commentators, after Canadian Donavon Bailey won the 100 metre gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”

Samuel Goldwyn

It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human…

George W Bush

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”

Kahlil Gibran