Thankful4theSuNsEt• Show poetry

-One day, I will look at the sunrise and be thankful
for another day to live.
(Until then, I will watch the sunset, and be thankful
for one day less until I get to die.)



SomeTHING(s) for U 2 tHiNk about:

"No trial has come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial He will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it."
- 1 Corinthians 10:13

"How do I change?
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions."
-Og Madino
(excerpt from"The Greatest Salesman In The World")

"When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly."
- Edward Teller

"Follow the ways of your heart, the vision of your eyes; yet understand that as regards all this, God will bring you judgement."
- Ecclesiastes 11:9

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know that you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
- C.S. Lewis

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
-G.K. Chesterton

"It is good to have hope in the silence for the saving help of the Lord."
- Lamentations 3:26

"In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere – ‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."
- C.S. Lewis

"The sweetest things in the world today have come to us through tears and pain."
-J.R. Miller

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy and can fathom all mysteries and knowledge, and if I have a Faith that can move mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing."
-1 Corinthians 13:1-3

"Not the power to remember, but it's very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary for our existence."
- Sholom Asch

"Let no one look down on you because you are young, but be an example to all believers in the way you speak and behave, and in your love, your faith, and your purity."
- 1 Timothy 4:12

"Our hearts are the living cenacles, the monstrances through whose glass the whole world ought to see Christ."
- St. Gianna Beretta Molla

"In the dark, it is easy to pretend that the truth is what it ought to be."
-Phantom of the Opera

"Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting; the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."
- Proverbs 31:30

"The rain will make the flowers grow."
-Les Miserables

"To sing is to pray twice."
-St. Augustine

"If only life was like a box of crayons; some are sharp, some are dull, some are pretty, some have weird names, and they're all different colors - but they all exist very nicely together in the same box."

"Do not be afraid! Open wide the doors for Christ."
-Pope John Paul II

"It is my choice to die at the hands of men, with the God-given hope of being restored to life through Him."
- 2 Maccabbees 7:14

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

"To love another person is to see the face of God"
-Les Miserables

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame you for your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of GOd, than for doing evil."
- 1 Peter 3:15-17

"All my life they have been coming, these feet. All my life I have waited. Death will come only when I am worthy; and if I am worthy, there is no danger. I have therefore only to make perfect my will."
-T.S. Elliot (from "Murder In the Cathedral")

"Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win. Every athlete exercises discipline. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we and imperishable one."
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-25

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
-Judy Garland

"Death rather than sin."
-St. Dominic Savio

"Our faith permeates the very aspects of our being."

"With closest custody, guard your heart; for in it are the sources of life."
- Proverbs 4:23

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."
-Les Miserables

"Tears are the safety valve to the heart when too much pressure is laid on it."
-Albert Smith

"You find what you REALLY think by writing it down."

"Happy therefore is the person who by continual removal of fantasies and images, by turning within and raising the mind to God finally manages to dispense with the products of imagination, and by doing so, works within."

"Inspiration and determination are God's hand pushing us against a wall."
-Brian Russ

"Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of the people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synogouges, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about what you will say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. FOr it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of the Father speaking through you. Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved."
-Matthew 10:16-22

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything it's value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles until death."
-Thomas Paine

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more so to stand up to your friends."
-J.K. Rowling

"When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people sit in front of the TV and treat life as if it goes on forever."
- Phillip Adams

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit."
-Aristotle

"Sounds tiresome...but very inspirational" - Joe Bratrsovsky

"The fruit of Faith is Love. The fruit of Love is Service. The fruit of Service is Peace." - Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

"Let us go even further and say that love and suffering are inseperable" - from the book I BELIEVE IN LOVE

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