Daughter of the King

something to think about:

Think about the authors of these quotes, and think about what God's Word tells us. I do not agree with everyone of these, and some I am surprised to agree to:


1. To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~Confucius (a wise pagan)

2. Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. ~Carter Heyward

3. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.~ Helen Keller

4. It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.~ Rachel Carson

5. An optimist is the human personification of spring.~Susan J. Bissonette

6. Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.~ Amy Bloom

7. We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.~Viktor Frankl

8. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.~Saint Francis

9. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.~ Blaise Pascal

10. The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.~ Vita Sackville-West

11. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.~ Buddha

12. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.~ Martin Luther King, Jr

13. The pain passes, but the beauty remains.~ Pierre Auguste Renoir

14. In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.~ Anne Frank

15. A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.~ May Sarton

16. A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.~ Margaret Mead

18. Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.~ Barbara De Angelis

19. Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.~ Julie Moir Messervy

Which means the most to you, and why?

posted by Becca @ 9:39 AM