As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.
For right is right, since God is God.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when we cry. Now is the season, wisely long, Of sadder thought and graver song, When ailing souls grow well and strong. Oh hearken when we cry. The feast of penance! Oh so bright, With true conversion's heavenly light, Like sunrise after stormy night! Oh hearken when we cry. Oh happy time of blessed tears, Of surer hopes, of chast'ning fears, Undoing all our evil years. Oh hearken when we cry. Chastise us with Thy fear; Yet, Father! in the multitude Of Thy compassions, hear!
The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.
Loving dogs is a question of anthropomorphism. We become attached to dogs because of the feelings we project on them.
I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.
The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.