“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” - Benjamin Franklin

“If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.” - Oscar Hammerstein II

"[having] pressed grapes of service, we drink life's sweetest wine - the wine of giving. We are at our best when we are giving. In fact, we are most like God when we are giving." - Max Lucado

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” - St. Thomas Aquinas

"I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.” - Ronald Reagan

"Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life, having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes, and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ." — Francis Drake

"I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people." - Studs Terkel

“Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts” - Saint John Chrysostom

“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.” - Bishop Desmond Tutu

“How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?” - St. Teresa of Avila

“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself” - Shunryu Suzuki

“When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.” - Mother Teresa

“Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.” - Jackie Robinson (April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson was the first black man to play in a major league baseball game.)

"When pain comes, we are expected to learn from it willingly, and help others to learn. When happiness comes, we accept it as a gift, and thank God for it." - Bill Wilson

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” - Martin Luther

“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.” - Douglas Adams

"The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son." - Oswald Chambers

“It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' You must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.” - Albert Schweitzer

"By craving to be more, man becomes less; and by aspiring to be self-sufficing, he fell away from him who truly suffices him." - Augustine

“This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.” - Gracie Allen

“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.” - Dalai Lama

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” - Emile Zola

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” - Redd Foxx

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him a the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Phil 2:4-11

“Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending” - Herman Melville

"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed." - 1 Pet 2:24

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.” - Bob Hope