Every day in a life feels the whole life with expectation and memory.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a British author and Christian theologian. His full name is Clive Staples Lewis.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American pastor and abolitionist.
We are weaving the future on the loom of today.
There are times when encouragement means a lot, and a word is enough to convey it.
Grace Strickler Dawson was an American poet.
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His gifted words earned three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and Fiction.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
From Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.”
Lewis B. Smedes (1921-2002) was an American author and Christian theologian.
Do not limit the limitless God! With Him, face the future unafraid because you are never alone.
From Jeremiah 29:11-12: “For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon Me and come and pray to Me, I will hear you.”
Lettie B. Cowman (1870-1960) was an American writer of Christian devotional books.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
No one can make a real masterpiece of life until he sees something infinitely greater in his vocation than bread and butter and shelter.
Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924) was an American inspirational writer. He founded Success magazine in 1897. Many of his ideas were based upon the New Thought philosophy.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
From Jeremiah 29:11: “For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.”
Robert Collyer (1823-1912) was an English-born pastor. Early in his adult life, he emigrated to the United States and would later resuming preaching after having done so in England.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was an American writer, whose prolific career of over fifty years produced countless works filled with his unique satire and dark humor.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
When a man starts to build a world, he starts first with himself.
Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was an American writer and social activist. He was an influential leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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