Devotional 2-6-15

I recently cleaned out a drawer of my computer desk. Let's just say, it was interesting. I found a boat-load of quotations, pages ripped off of calendars or out of magazines. I'm going to share a dozen of them with you today. Let me know your favorite.

1. The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today. (St. Francis of Assisi). 
2. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.  (Richard Bach)
3. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.  (Mark Twain)
4. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. (Francis Maitland Balfour)
5. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. (W. T. Purkiser)
6. America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.  (Wilma Mankiller)
7. One filled with joy preaches without preaching.  (Mother Teresa)
8. Now the message that we have heard from His Son and announce is this: God is light and there is no darkness at all in him.  (I John 1:5)
9. You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.  (Anne Lamott)
10. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers and sisters.  (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
11. Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. (T.A. Barron)
12. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.  (Golda Meir)

Anita Gardner Farrell