Humour Is A Natural Resource

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest, earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.


- James Thurber

He Loves You!

God does not give His love in dribs and drabs.  
He lavishes it on us when we come to Him in faith.  
All along, He was waiting to make us His children, 
and we were the ones who resisted.

But once we face Him as children, 
God's love lets loose in our lives.  
Nothing is too good for His obedient children.  
Praise God that He loves you that much!

- Pamela McQuade -

The Joy Of Living

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what-next, and the joy of the game of living.

- Samuel Ullman -

Everyday Joy

Every breath we breathe comes from God. Every step we take is a gift from our Creator. We can do nothing apart from Him. In the same sense, every joy, every sorrow... God goes through each one with us. His heart is for us. We can experience joy in our everyday lives, even when things aren't going our way. We simply have to remember that He is in control. We have our being... in Him! - Janice Hanna -

Rest

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

- Sir John Lubrock

A Journey Set In Motion

There is something satisfying, rejuvenating, comforting about the seasons.  They remind me that I play one small part in a much bigger picture - that there is a pulse, a sequence, a journey set into motion by the very hand of God Himself.

- Karen Scalf Linamen

Supreme Happiness

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - 

loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves.

- Victor Hugo

Joyful In Love

When you love the Lord and recognize His great love for you, it's easy to be joyful! Think of His marvelous deeds. Relish His overwhelming love for His children. Recognize His daily blessings. Oh, may we never forget that the Lord our God longs for us to see the depth of His love for us... and to love Him fully in return.

- Janice Hanna

Never Lose An Opportunity

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Sunbeam

Happiness is a sunbeam... When it strikes a kindred heart, like the converged lights upon a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected until it is shared.


- Jane Porter

Be Alive

Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth... Be alive to... goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God, and eternal hope.

- Maltbie D. Babcock

Best Things In Life

The best things in life are nearest : breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Element Of Joy

Into many lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God Is Everywhere

There's not a tint that paints the rose
Or decks the lily fair,
Or marks the humblest flower that grows,
But God has placed it there...
There's not a place on earth's vast round,
In oceans deep or air,
Where love and beauty are not found,
For God is everywhere.

- James C Wallace

Every Heart

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully 
has left a hopeful impulse behind it 
in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

- Benjamin Franklin

Lift People Up

The greatest exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting people up.

- Ernest Blevins

He Gently Leads Us

God gives us everything we need to make it through life. He teaches us His ways. Fills us with His joy. Gives us the pleasure of meeting with Him for times of intimate worship. What an awesome teacher and friend. He takes us by the hand and gently leads us... from experience to experience... joy to joy.


- Janice Hanna

Instrument Of Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, forgiveness.
Where there is discord, reconciliation.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, faith.
Where there is sadness, joy.
Where there is darkness, Your light.


- St Francis of Assisi

Simple Charm

The splendour of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, Spring would lose its loveliness.

- Therese of Lisieux