People treat life as though it’s the dress rehearsal for some big show. It’s not. This is it.
My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you’ve done your best, you’ve done well enough.
Jane Seymour (born 1951) is a British actress.
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
From Psalm 19:1-2: “The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims His handiwork. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.”
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and writer.
Stanley Horowitz (American poet)
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Henry Beston (American writer and naturalist)
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
Have more than you you show, speak less than you know.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and theater entrepreneur.
For faith is a mover of mountains–there’s nothing man cannot achieve if he has the courage to try it and then has faith to believe.
From Mark 11:22-23: “Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you.'”
Helen Steiner Rice (1900-1981) was an American writer who specialized in Christian and inspirational poetry.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
From Hebrews 11:1-3: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. He was a leading voice in America’s transcendentalist movement in the 19th century.
As all rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet.
From John 1:14: “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen His glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.”
John Flavel (c. 1627-1691) was an English Puritan pastor and Christian author.
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which may see.
Everything seems an echo of something else.
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was an American poet and novelist. His received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1947 for his novel, ALL THE KING’S MEN.
What we need is faith. For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that does nothing. Real faith dares something, something big and brawny, beyond the human.
From Proverbs 28:1: “The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.”
Clovis G. Chappell (1882-1972) was an American pastor and Christian author.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. In 1957, at the age of 44, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Autumn is a spring when every leaf is a flower.
Yoko Ono (born 1933) is an Japanese-born artist, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
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