Monday, December 27, 2004

Quotes and Such

These are quotes I have read or heard over the last few months and I wanted to pass them on.
There are two kinds of injustice: the first is found in those who do an injury, and the second in those who fails to protect another from injury who can.
Roman Cicero, De Oft
Verily, verily I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it.
John
Hateful to me as are the gates of Hades is that man who says one thing, and hides another in his heart.(Who dares think one thing , and another tell, My heart detests his as the gates of hell.
Greek, Homer Illiad
Choose loss rather than shameful gain.Greek.Chilon Fr.10

Make every effort to add to your godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

1 Peter 1:5-7

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility(desire to serve their best intrest) consider others (needs) better than yourself. Each of you should look not only to your own interes, but also to the interest of others to the glory glory of God the Father. (The priority and goal - to bless them so they can have more courage to serve God)

Phillipians 2:2-11

Each should use whatever gift he has receiveced to serve others.... so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:10-11

(one of the last commands of Christ)
A new commandment I give to you: Love(show charity to) one another. All men will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.

John 13:34-35

** 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 right just before you. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist,
essayist, and poet(1850-1894)

A sense of individual identity is one of the greatest gifts that parents
can give a child. If that gift is not given, children will have to
fight for their identities instead.
Mister Rogers

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