"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Alva Edison

 

"The older I get, the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do."

- Andrew Carnegie

 

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."

- Sir Isaac Newton

 

"Joy and woe are woven fine
A clothing for the soul divine,
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
It is right that it be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Through the world we safely go."

- William Blake

 

"Faith always has as a companion joy in the Holy Spirit."

- Martin Luther

 

"Sour godliness is the devil's religion."

- John Wesley

 

"Faith can turn trials into triumphs and gloom into gladness."

- Winston Chruchill

 

"Easter is the morning when Christ laughs out loud, laughs at all the things that snuff out joy, all the things that pretend to be all-powerful, like cruelty and madness and despair and evil, and most especially, that great pretender, Death. Jesus sweeps them all away with His wonderful resurrection laughter."

- Reverend Frank Yates

 

"The world looks like something God has just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it?"

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

"Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition, you see another one glittering higher up still."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

"I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising . . . It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

"Lord ...Your love . . . A wave flowing over me in gloryYour peace . . .A soft wind curling around my thoughtsYour joy . . . A ray of light tripping and falling through the tree branchesYour grace . . . A flicker of hope, a spark in utter darkness."

- Tovya

 

"I'd rather have one that decided than ten-thousand that were persuaded."

- Nun in Disney's "Trouble with Angels"

 

"At the end of the war, when all is said and done, the scars of battle that marr the face of a Christian are not those of a defeated prisoner, but rather those of a triumphant soldier. The scars are not shame-bound chains, but testimonies of victory. the soft gleam in the eye of a Christian warrior is not that of a wild spirit shattered by hurt, but that of a hard heart bowing and softening to the highest Authority - a strong, fighting soul surrendering to the Warrior tthat conquered death itself, and a bitter hate overtaken by love. The soldier does not stand alone in battle; from the beginning, he was never alone. Only the Lord can defy human reason, for only the Creator of those who reason can reach beyong that reason . . . And He does."

-Tovya

 

"Even the tiniest light is brighter than the darkness."

- Unknown

 

"Taste the fellowship of spiritual unity and nothing else will ever satisfy you again. There is nothing like it and there's no way to get it except through the Holy Spirit."

- Dr. David John Keyser

 

"I have a hope for my soul, a peace for my spirit, satisfaction for my mind, joy for my heart, and a promise of eternal love - Jesus.

- Tovya

 

"Today I am going to give you two examinations, one in trigonometry, and one in honesty. I hope you will pass both, but if you must fail one, let it be trigonometry."

- Madison Sarratt

 

"No matter how straight and narrow the path, there is always enough room for Him to walk beside you and hold your hand.'

- Tovya

 

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

 

"There are two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

 

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

- Sir James Barrie

 

"Saying nothing sometimes says the most."

- Emily Dickinson

 

"Life is very interesting . . . In the end some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

 

"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a noman."

- Thomas Carlyle

 

"Love is kind of beautiful if you let it come to you. You can't take it with you; every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around."

- from "Vanilla Sky"

 

"In three words I have summed up everything I know about life, 'It goes on.'"

- Robert Frost

 

"A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going."

- Oliver Cromwell

 

"Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering."

- Ida Scott Taylor

 

"I have decided to find as many things as possible that make me happy and recognize them as such, so that when the bad times hit, I have ammunition. I shall count the blessings ahead of time so that the difficulties are sure to be outnumbered in my mind even before they hit. It sounds simple . . . And it is. But it is also a lifestyle of silver linings instead of lemons."

- Tovya