Category: Inspirational Thoughts

Virtue is nothingbut well-directed love.Saint Augustine

God’s blessings steal into life noiselessly.They are neither self-proclaiming, nor even self-announcing.Henry Ward Beecher

The God who gave us lifegave us liberty at the same time.Thomas Jefferson

Earth has no sorrowthat heaven cannot heal.Saint Thomas Moore

All I have seenteaches me to trust the Creatorfor all I have not seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank God for sleep!And, when you cannot sleep,still thank him that you live to lie awake.John Oxenham

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life,let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.William Law

Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.Walter Haddon

If God maintains sun and planets in bright and ordered beauty,he can keep us.Frederick B. Meyer

An angel is a spiritual being, created by God without a body,for the service of Christendom and the Church.Martin Luther

Love pays attention. Love notices things.Not to notice is not to love.John Carmody

Be the living expression of God’s kindness;kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.Let no one ever come to you without feeling better and happier.Mother Teresa of Calcutta

A gift of fragrance always clings to the hands that give roses.Chinese Proverb

The way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself,but to stand at your real height against some higher nature,that will show you how small your greatness is.Phillips Brooks

God is perfect love and perfect wisdom.We do not pray in order to change his willbut to bring our wills into harmony with his.William Temple

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless.There’s too much work to do.Dorothy Day

If God sends us on stony paths,he will provide us with strong shoes.Alexander Maclaren

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed.When our strength is our own, it is only weakness.Saint Augustine

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.Joseph Sugarman

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest of souls;the most massive characters are seamed with scars.Edwin Hubbel Chapin