Work Hard Getting the most with the least amount of effort has become the American motto of choice. (William E. Brown, college executive and author) If Brown is right, what an indictment of modern America! The United States of America has been known for its fighting...
Gentleness Be ruthless with ideas and gentle with people. (Robert Sirico, founder of Acton Institute) Sirico’s counsel is really needed today. Conflicting ideas ought to be studied, proclaimed, and debated with energy and confidence. But when that zealous ardor turns...
Faith Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. (Mark Batterson, author) Batterson adds, “[Faith] does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation . . . it simply refuses to limit God to the logical constraints of the left brain.” We all exercise...
Ignorance How great must be the guilt and how awful must be the punishment of voluntary ignorance. (William Wilberforce, 18th-19th century British member of Parliament) Being illiterate or ignorant is no sin if one has not had an opportunity to learn. But, to “ignore”...
Success Try not to become a person of success but rather try to become a person of value. (Albert Einstein, renowned scientist) What is success? To some, it probably would be winning a gold medal. For someone else, it might be winning an Oscar or an Emmy. Having a...
Masks Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask falls off. (Jeevan Darshanam, meditation leader) Our recent experience with masks was for health reasons. We wanted to be protected and to protect others from communicable disease. Too often in life, we’ve...
Simplify Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. (William Morris, 19th century British activist) Morris could well be a modern voice promoting down-sizing. As we walk through our homes, how much stuff do we see that, in...
Joy There are [people] in this world [who] have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. (Frederick William Faber, noted 19th century English hymn writer) One of life’s great pleasures is to be around the kind of people Faber...
Waiting and Moving On Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. (Anonymous) Walt Disney put it this way, “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." So, it’s probably a combination of both....
Open-Minded People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for. (from To Kill a Mockingbird) It’s difficult, isn’t it, to keep an open mind? Often we feel that we know enough about a certain situation that we don’t really hear someone else’s...
Perspective Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. (Wayne Dyer, self-help, author) It’s the old story of seeing the cup as half full or half empty or noticing the mud rather than the daisy. It’s a matter of perspective, isn’t it? The...
Falling The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Nelson Mandela, late South African president) We think nothing of it when a toddler falls and immediately jumps up again. Nearly everyone has fallen short of the...