REPENTANCE

I have not come to call the righteous,
But sinners to repentance.

.....Luke 5:32

He that covers his sins shall not prosper:
But whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
…..Proverbs 28:13

Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man, his thoughts:
And let him return unto the Lord,
And he will have mercy upon him;
And to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
......Isaiah 55:7

Bad men are full of repentance.
…..Aristotle

Every one goes astray,
but the least imprudent
are they who repent the soonest.
…..Voltaire

Confession without repentance is just bragging.

…..Rev. Eugene Bolton

Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine.
The greatest of all faults, is to be conscious of none.
….Thomas Carlyle

Repentance is another name for aspiration.
…..Henry Ward Beecher

Repentance is not so much remorse
for what we have done,
as the fear of the consequences

.……François de la Rochefoucauld

Repentance is but want of power to sin.
….. John Dryden

Remorse is impotence, it will sin again.
Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
……Henry Miller

Repentance is but a denying of our will,
and an opposition of our fantasies.
……Michel de Montaigne

A Christian is a man, who feels repentance on Sunday,
For what he did on Saturday,
And, is going to do on Monday.

…….Thomas Ybarra

People don’t do what they believe in;
-They just do what’s convenient,
And then they repent.
…..Bob Dylan

He comes never too late,
If he comes repentant.
....Juan de Horozco

THIS IS A TEST OF THE FEED BURNER SYSTEM

FREEDOM

Freedom consists not in doing what we like,
but in having the right to do what we ought.

……Pope John Paul II

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed;
It must be achieved.

…….Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men;
So it must be daily earned and refreshed;
else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

……Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who deny freedom to others,

deserve it not for themselves.

…….Abraham Lincoln

There are two freedoms:
- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes;
-the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

……..Charles Kingsley

We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.

…….William Faulkner

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

……..Joseph Addison

What then is Freedom?
- The power to live as one wishes.

........Marcus Tullius Cicero

Without Freedom, no one really has a name.

…….Milton Acorda

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

……Nietzsche

Freedom is not worth having;
if it does not include the Freedom to make mistakes.

………Mahatma Gandhi

The Freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

…….Friedrich Durrenmatt

We cannot defend Freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

…….Edward R. Murrow

When freedom does not have a purpose,
when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law
engraved in the hearts of men and women,
when it does not listen to the voice of conscience,
it turns against humanity and society.

……Pope John Paul II

INSULTS

When Insults Had Class
These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to
4-letter words.

She said:

"If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
He said:

"If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
……..Exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor

"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
…..Member of Parliament (to Disraeli)

"That depends Sir, whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
……. Disraeli

"He had delusions of adequacy."
….. Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike;
and none of the vices I admire."
….. Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man;
but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure…
…. Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word
that might send a reader to the dictionary."
…….William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book;
I'll waste no time reading it."
…… Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral,
but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
…… Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
……Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
bring a friend.... if you have one."
…….George Bernard Shaw (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second;
.... if there is one."
……..Winston Churchill, (in response).

"I feel so miserable without you;
it's almost like having you here."
……..Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
……John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness.
Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
……Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself;
he is the cause of dullness in others."
…… Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
….. Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt,
she always yielded easily."
……. Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
…… Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope,
… without any address on it?"
……. Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away;
…… and kept the stork."
…….. Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go.."
…….. Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts;
for support rather than illumination."
……. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
……. Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.
……. But this wasn't it."
…… Groucho Marx

HISTORY

Man learns from History that
Man does not learn from History. ……….Author Unknown

History is a set of lies agreed upon. …….Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the sum total of the things
that could have been avoided. ……Konrad Adenauer

History never looks like history
when you are living through it. ……..John W. Gardner

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past,
trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes,
and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. …….Sir Winston Churchill

Perhaps nobody has changed the course of History
as much as the historians. ………Franklin P. Jones

Every true History must force us to remember that the past
was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. ……George Macaulay Trevelyan

People are trapped in history,
and history is trapped in them. ……..James Baldwin

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say,
are just fables that have been agreed upon. ……...Voltaire

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people
than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.
……..Dexter Perkins
More History is made by secret handshakes,
than by battles, bills, and proclamations. …….John Barth,

Sin writes Histories; Goodness is silent. ……..Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men have need of History because, without it,
the past threatens to overwhelm them. ………Guy Fregaull

History does not unfold: it piles up. ………Robert M. Adams,

Even the most painstaking History,
is a bridge across an eternal mystery. ……..Bruce Catton,

There is nothing more dangerous than History used as a defense,
or History used for preaching;
History used as a tool is no longer history. ……..Marcel Trudel

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time;
It illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life,
and brings us tidings of antiquity. ……..Cicero

DARE

Where is the man who has Dared to do such a thing? ……..Esther 7:5

Dare to be naive. …….Buckminster Fuller

Only those who Dare to fail greatly,
can ever achieve greatly. ……..Robert F. Kennedy

He who would begun has half done.
Dare to be wise; begin. …….Horace
We fail more often by timidity than by Daring. …….David Grayson

It is not because things are difficult that we do not Dare,
it is because we do not Dare that they are difficult. ………Seneca

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who Dare. …….V oltaire

To Dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
To not Dare is to lose oneself. …….Soren Kierkegaard

Dare to risk public criticism. ……Mary Kay Ash

One must work and Dare if one really wants to live. …….Vincent Van Gogh
There's something liberating about not pretending.
Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. …….Drew Barrymore

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ……Robert Burns

Power is given only to those who Dare to lower themselves and pick it up.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to Dare! …….Fyodor Dostoevsky

Art means to Dare - and to have been right. ……..Ned Rorem

Dare and the world yields,
or if it beats you sometimes,
Dare it again and you will succeed. ………William Makepeace Thakeray

Those who can bear all, can Dare all. …..Marquis de Vauvenargues

CURIOSITY

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity …….Yiddish Proverb

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. …….. Bryan H. McGill
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind,
is Curiosity. ……Edmund Burke

Life must be lived and Curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. …..Eleanor Roosevelt

The cure for boredom is Curiosity.
There is no cure for Curiosity. ………Dorothy Parker

A sense of Curiosity is nature's original school of education. ……Smiley Blanton

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. …….Albert Einstein

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ……… William A. Ward
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ……James Stephen

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention,
as attention is of memory. …..Richard Whately

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man;
and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. ……Daniel Boone

Curiosity is one of the most permanent
and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ……Samuel Johnson

Satisfaction of one's Curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. ……Linus Pauling

My Alma mater was books and a good library;
I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my Curiosity. …..Malcolm X

Human Curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force
and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all
in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. …….Aaron Klug

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds,
the first passion and the last. ………William Samuel Johnson

HONESTY

And my Honesty will testify for me in the future.. Genesis 30:33

A Honest man's word is as good as his bond. …….Cervantes

Where is there dignity unless there is Honesty? ……..Cicero

Every man has his fault, and Honesty is his. ……William Shakespeare

The elegance of Honesty needs no adornment. …….Merry Browne

Dare to be Honest and fear no labor. …….Robert Burns

To make your children capable of Honesty,
is the beginning of education. …….John Ruskin

I have found that being Honest is the best technique I can use.
Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish,
and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. …….. Lee Iacocca

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. ……. Stephen Vincent Benet

The measure of life is not strength, but Honesty. …….John Lyle

Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed, But Honesty once pawned, is never redeemed. …….Thomas Middleton

An Honest man's the noblest work of God. …….Alexander Pope

There is no twilight zone of Honesty in business.
A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. …….John F. Dodge

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough,
to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles;
the character of an "Honest Man.". …….George Washington

The elegance of Honesty needs no adornment. …….Merry Browne

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutalitythan out of the honesty. …….Richard J. Needham

CHANCE

There is no such thing as “No Chance”. ………Henry Ford

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe,
the more chance you have of stepping into success. …….Author Unknown

Chance is the providence of adventurers ………Napoleon Boneparte

One Chance is all you need. ……..Jesse Owens

It's Choice, not Chance that determines your destiny .......Jean Nidetch

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. ……….Sophocles

If you want to achieve a high goal,
you're going to have to take some Chances. ………Alberto Salazar

He who leaves nothing to Chance will do few things poorly,
but he will do few things. ……..Edward F. Halifax

Those who trust to Chance must abide by the results of Chance. …….Calvin Coolidge

A wise man turns chance into good fortune. …………Thomas Fuller

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. ………Mark Twain

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of Chance and necessity. …..Democritus

Chance corrects us of many faults
that reason would not know how to correct. ……. Francois Duc de la Rouchefoucard

The opposites of apparent Chance,
are constancy and sensible interposition. …….Deacon William Paley

Where observation is concerned,
Chance favors only the prepared mind. …….Louis Pasteur

Authority

New faces have more Authority than accustomed ones. ……Euripides

If you wish to know what a man is,
Place him in Authority. …….Yogoslav Proverb

All Authority must be out of a man's self,
Turned, either upon an art, or upon a man. …….Francis Bacon

A man in Authority is but as a candle in the wind,
sooner wasted or blown out than under a bushel. ……..John Fletcher

An argument from Authority is but a weak kind of proof;
It being but a topical probation, and an inartificial argument
depending on naked asseveration.. ……Sir Thomas Browne

To punish me for my contempt for Authority,
fate made me an Authority myself. …….Albert Einstein

All Authority belongs to the people. ……Thomas Jefferson

Self-possession is the backbone of Authority. ……Thomas Chandler

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by Authority,
is the consciousness of their own ignorance. …….Richard Hooker

How long would Authority exist,
if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen. …….Emma Goldman

Every great advance in natural knowledge
has involved the absolute rejection of Authority. ……Thomas Huxley

A position of Authority is neither necessary or sufficient
For the exercise of leadership. ……Eric Werkowitz

The faith that stands on Authority; is not faith. ……Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to Authority,
is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory. …….Leonardo Da Vinci

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility,
is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to Authority. ……Stanley Milgram

TOLERANCE

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. …….John F. Kennedy

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue;
it makes it a requirement for survival. ……Bene Dubos

No human trait deserves less Tolerance in everyday life,
and gets less, than intolerance. ………Giacomo Leopardi

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. …….Gilbert K. Chesterton

Anger and Intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. Mohandas Candhi

Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. ……Frank Love

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. ……Robert Casey

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world. ……Jose Serrano

TEMPTATION

Blessed is the man that endures Temptation:
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. ……James 1:12

Good habits result from resisting temptation. ……Ancient Proverb

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. ……..John Quincy Adams

Tempt not a desperate man. …….William Shakespeare

We usually know what we can do,
But Temptation tells us who we are. …….Thomas A. Kempis

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Most people would like to be delivered from Temptation,
but would like it to keep in touch. ……..Robert Orben

The last Temptation is the greatest treason:
to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ………T. S. Eliot

Those who flee Temptation,
generally leave a forwarding address. ………Lane Olinghouse

DESIRE

Desire is individual. Happiness is common. ……Julian Casablancas

He who desires is always poor. ……Clauianus

To Desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. ……James Allen

There are two tragedies in life.
One is not to get your heart's Desire;
The other is to get it. ……George Bernard Shaw

My desire is to walk with God every day …….Janine Turner

Those who restrain desire,
do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ……William Blake

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. ……Mason Cooley

We Desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. ……Publilius Syrus

The consuming Desire of most human beings is deliberately
to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. ……Quentin Crisp

VICE

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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. …..Ancient Proverb

Nothing is as certain as that the Vices of leisure
Are gotten rid of by being busy. ……Seneca

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error;
and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. ……..Lady Marguerite Blessington

Every Vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. …….Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our Vices;
but only the very honest will admit this. ……….Holbrook Jackson

When virtue is at liberty,
so to some extent is Vice. ………..Barbara Amiel

The vilest of what is evil is Vice. …………Abu Bakr

It is the function of Vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ……..Samuel Butler

SUFFERING

Suffering produces endurance,
And endurance produces character,
And character produces hope. ……… Romans 5:3-4

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness,
not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ……..Aristotle

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality,
for it is only suffering that makes us persons. ……Miguel de Unamuno

Suffering is part of the divine idea. ……..Henry Ward Beecher

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts;
not amid joy. ……..Sir Arthur Helps

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else,
for Suffering is too precious to be shared. ……..Edward Dahlberg

We are never so defensless against Suffering as when we love. ……..Sigmund Freud

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to Suffering,
but only to one's own suffering. …….Robert Lynd

EMOTION

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm …….Ralph Waldo Emerson

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men
the conviction and the will to carry on. …..Walter Lippmann

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear,
that shapes the face of a brave man. …..Georges Bernanos

Let's not forget that the little Emotions are the great captains of our lives;
and we obey them without realizing it. …….Vincent Van Gogh

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action,
is the element of madness. ……..John Sterling

The finest Emotion of which we are capable
is the mystic emotion. …..Albert Einstein

Any Emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ……..Mark Twain

I use Emotion for the many;
and reserve reason for the few. ……..Adolf Hitler

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,
-but creatures of Emotion. …….Dale Carnegie

The essential difference between Emotion and reason is
that emotion leads to action, while reason leads to conclusions. Donald Calne

Wit is the epitaph of an Emotion. ………Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

SELFISHNESS

An unfriendly man pursues Selfish ends;
he defies all sound judgment. …….Proverbs 18:1

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world
a benefit when he dies. …….Tertullian
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. …….William E. Gladstone

Glory built on Selfish principles is shame and guilt. ……..William Cowper

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others,
and no one is without himself. ………..Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ………Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism,
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ……..Martin Luther King, Jr.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ……..Oscar Wilde

FLOWERS

Take time to smell the roses. …….Author Unknown

Bread feeds the body, indeed,
but Flowers feed also the soul. …….The Holy Koran

When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. …….Chinese Proverb

Where Flowers bloom, so does hope. ……Lady Bird Johnson

Each Flower is a soul opening to nature. …….Gerald De Nerval

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life …….Jean Giraudoux

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made,
and forgot to put a soul into. …….Henry Beecher

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world. ……Ralph Waldo Emerson

SKEPTICISM

Large skepticism leads to large understanding.
Small skepticism leads to small understanding.
No skepticism leads to no understanding. ……..Xi Zhi

There is a kind of courtesy in Skepticism.
It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ……..George Santayana

Skepticism is a barren coast,
without a harbor or lighthouse. …….Henry Ward Beecher

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. …….. Louis Pasteur

It is men of faith, not Skeptics,
who have made the world aware that they were in it.. …….William Ellery Channing

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. ……. John Dewey

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principles,
or changed the world's heart;

The great doers in history have always been men of faith. ……Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion,
by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. …….Carl Sagan

SINCERITY

I want to test the Sincerity of your love,
by comparing it with the ernestness of others. ......2 Corinthians 8:8

Sincerity gives wings to power. ………Author Unknown

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ……….Confucius

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value
than the most talented hypocrite. ……..Charles Spurgeon

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. …….,Lord Byron

Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. …….. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution, experience life's deepest joy; -True fulfillment. .......Tony Robbins

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being. …….James Russell Lowell

A Sincere man who is wrong, is the most dangerous of opponents. ……. Sevareid

Sincerity is the way of Heaven …….Mencius

It is dangerous to be Sincere unless you are also stupid ……..George Bernard Shaw

Judge thyself with the judgment of Sincerity,
and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. ……John Mitchell Mason

I should say Sincerity, a deep, great, genuine Sincerity,
is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. ……..Thomas Carlyle

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of Sincerity. ……Oliver Goldsmith

Sincerity is an openness of heart; it is found in a very few people;
And that which we see commonly is not it,
but a subtle dissimulation, to gain the confidence of others. …….Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The secret of success is Sincerity.
Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made. …….Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux*

REVENGE

Do not seek Revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people,
but love your neighbor as yourself. ……..Leviticus 19:18

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. ………German Proverb

Live well; It is the greatest Revenge. ……..The Talmud

Before you embark on a journey of Revenge, dig two graves. ……Confucius

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ……….Josh Billings

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. …….Juvenal

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. ……Percy Bysshe Shelley

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
But in passing it over, he is superior. ……..Francis Bacon

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time;
as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation
as if I had been poisoned. …….Charlotte Bronte

REPUTATION

He must also have a good Reputation with outsiders,
so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil's trap. …..Timothy 3:7

When a door opens without your knocking,
consider your Reputation. …….Arabian Proverb

Reputation is the shell a man discards
when he leaves life for immortality. …….Author Unknown

How difficult it is to save the bark of Reputation
from the rocks of ignorance. ……. Petrach*

Character is like a tree and Reputation its shadow.
The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing. ……Abraham Lincoln

You can't build a Reputation on what you're going to do. …….Henry Ford

Glass, China and Reputation are easily cracked,
and never mended well. …….Benjamin Franklin

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out;
But it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. …….James Russell Lowell

SECURITY

- My son, if you have put up Security for your neighbor,
you have struck hands in pledge for another, ……Proverbs 6:1

- There is no Security on this earth;
There is only opportunity. ……. Gen. Douglas McArthur

- Too many people are thinking of Security instead of opportunity;
They seem to be more afraid of Life than of death. ……..James F. Byrnes

- Security is a kind of death ……Tennessee Williams

- Security is mostly superstitious, it does not exist in nature.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. …….Helen Keller

- Better be despised for too anxious apprehension,
Than ruined by too confident Security. …….Edmund Burke

- They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security. …….Benjamin Franklin

- True individual freedom cannot exist without economic Security and Independence.
…..Franklin Delano Roosevelt

NEW YEAR

You will still be eating last year's harvest;
When you will have to move it out to make room for the New. Leviticus 26:10

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad New Year to all the earth. …….Martin Luther

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. ……Oprah Winfrey

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this;
To rise above the little things. …….John Burroughs

Every man regards his own life
as the New Year's Eve of time. ……Jean Paul Richter

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. …….William Thomas

Of all sound of all bells, the most solemn and touching is
the peal which rings out the Old Year. …….Charles Lamb

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.
Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. …….Brooks Atkinson

An Optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in.
A Pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ……..Bill Vaughan

A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one year and out the other. …….Author Unknown

SELF-RESPECT

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world,
and yet lose or forfeit his very self? …….Luke 9:25

Respect yourself and others will respect you. …….Confucius

He that respects himself is safe from others;
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. …….Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They cannot take away our self-respect;
If we do not give it to them. …….Mohandas Gandhi

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ……..John Herschel

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. …….Joe Clark

A man who doesn't respect himself,
can never really respect anyone else. …….Cardinal De Retz

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life
is the source from which self-respect springs. ……..Joan Didion

OPINION

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding;
but delights in airing his own Opinions. …….Proverbs 18:2

Everything we hear is an Opinion, not a fact. ……..Marcus Aurelius

Every new Opinion, at its starting,
is precisely in a minority of one. ……..Thomas Carlyle

False Opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men,
thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime,
without knowing what they are doing. ……..Joseph De Maistre

People do not seem to realize that their Opinion of the world,
is also a confession of character. …….Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything
may reasonably be expected to do everything for money. …….Edward F. Halifax

A study of the history of Opinion is a necessarypreliminary to the emancipation of the mind. …….John Maynard Keynes

Public Opinion is the thermometer
a leader should constantly consult. ……Napoleon Bonaparte

It often takes more courage
to change one's Opinion than to keep it. …….Willy Brandt

CHRISTMAS

You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem,
lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid;
Say to the towns of Judah: "Here is your God! …..Isaiah 40:9
God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms. ……Paul Scherer

There has been only one Christmas;
The rest are anniversaries. …….W.J. Cameron

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ….W. T. Ellis

May your Christmas be as peaceful and as bright as new fallen snow. …..Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and keep it all year. ……Charles Dickens

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. …….Loring A. Schuler

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ……. Roy L. Smith

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world
is bound to the invisible spiritual world. ……Author Unknown

What is Christmas?
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal,
and that every path may lead to peace. …….Agnes M. Pharo

The only blind person at Christmastime is;
he who has not Christmas in his heart. ……Helen Keller

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world,
in a conspiracy of love. …… Hamilton Wright Mabie

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all,
but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. …….. Freya Stark

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries.
He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races.
He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. ……..George W. Truett

RESPECT

He who wants a rose must Respect the thorn. ……. Persian Proverb

Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired;
It can only be earned. …….Author Unknown

When you are content to be simply yourself, and don’t compare or compete,
Everybody will Respect you. ……Lao Tzu

Respect a man, and he will do all the more. ………John Wooden

Probably no greater honor can come to any man
than the Respect of his colleagues. …….Cary Grant

It is not sufficient to be worthy of Respect,
in order to be Respected. …..Alfred Nobel

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves Respect.
We must each Respect others even as we Respect ourselves. ……U. Thant

MERCY

Blessed are the Merciful; for they shall obtain Mercy. ……Mathew 5:7

Nothing emboldens sin so much as Mercy. …….William Shakespeare

I have always found that Mercy
bears richer fruits than strict justice. …….Abraham Lincoln

We shall show Mercy, but we shall not ask for it. …….Sir Winston S. Churchill

Mercy require the exertion, never the suppression,
of man's noble rights and powers. …….Gerrit Smith

There are three things in the world that deserve no Mercy,
hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ……..Frederick William Robertson

Underneath the wings of the seraphim are stretched the arms of the divine Mercy;
Ever ready to receive sinners. …….The Talmud

When a man assumes leadership,
he forfeits the right to Mercy. ……..Gennaro Angiulo


How can we pray to God for Mercy
if we ourselves have no Mercy? ……Isaac Bashevis Singer

CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. ……Mason Cooley

His was a great sin who first invented Consciousness.
Let us lose it for a few hours. ……Author Unknown

There is no life without Consciousness;
There is no Consciousness without life. ……..Annie Besant

The human Consciousness is really homogeneous.
There is no complete forgetting, even in death. …….D. H. Lawrence

The extent of your Consciousness is limited only
by your ability to love and to embrace with
your love, the space around you, and all it contains. ……Napoleon Bonaparte

No problem can be solved from the same level of Consciousness that created it. ………Albert Einstein
An unconscious Consciousness is no more
a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing. ……..Franz Clemens Brentano

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort;
We know them only from the contents of our own Consciousness. …….. Wilhelm Wundt

JUSTICE

The path of the Just is as the shining light:
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ……Proverbs 4:18

Justice renders to every one his due. ……Cicero

Justice delayed, is justice denied. ……William Gladstone*

It is in Justice that the ordering of society is centered. ……Aristotle

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both …..Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. …..Domitus Ulpian

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society. …….Edmund Burke

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps Justice alive. …..Earl Warren