®   Volume 20, # 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September, 2004

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On Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Addison

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."

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Task of Modern Educator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.S. Lewis

    "For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

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Writer’s Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Faulkner

    "Really the writer doesn’t want success. He knows he has a short span of life, that day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall—Kilroy was here—that somebody a hundred or a thousand years later will see."

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Yiddish Proverb

"Many people see things but few understand them."

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On Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Knute Rockne

"I don’t like to lose, and that isn’t so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don’t want a football player who doesn’t take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there’s another Saturday."     The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice."

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Courageous Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pope John Paul II, Swiss Youth, 6/6/04

    "The time has come…It is essential for every baptized person to pass from a faith of custom to a mature faith, that is expressed in clear, convinced and courageous personal choices."

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Your Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Canfield & Mark V. Hanson, The Aladdin Factor, p. 245

    "Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now. We encourage you with all of our hearts to begin your journey to greater levels of fulfillment and productivity now."

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Things That Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Price Pritchett

"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least."

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Today Is Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

    "Never allow potential in your personality to languish in the face of hardship. Do not let it wither and die. All you need to do is cultivate belief in yourself and in your ability. Think and pray; these two procedures are miracle workers. And to both of them add courage and fortitude. Soon will come a day when you clearly picture who you are and what you can be. Then you will exclaim, ‘Today is mine!’ You will seize it and, from that day forward, each day will truly be yours."

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Expression of God’s Kindness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother Teresa

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of Gods kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."

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On Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous

"Silence is not speechlessness;
It is being disposed to listen."

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Flame of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Arthur Ward

    "If the room of your life is filled with the darkness of despair, it need not remain so. You have the power to kindle the flame of faith, to light a candle of hope, to turn on the lamp of love, to pull back the curtains of fear, to raise the windows of doubt, to unlock the doors of defeat, and to step out into the street of service."

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As a Man Thinketh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Allen

    "The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears."

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Origin of Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Harvey Robinson, The Practical Cogitator, p. 7

    "Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our convictions; indeed, we have a natural repugnance to so doing. We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."

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Instrument of Thy Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Paton

    "If a Christian takes seriously the commandment to love his neighbor as himself, he may incur the active hostility of State and Church. And we should remember that Jesus did exactly that, and that he told his disciples that this might happen to them also.

    ‘Give us courage, O Lord, to stand up and be counted, to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, to stand up for ourselves when it is needful for us to do so. Let us fear nothing more than we fear Thee. Let us love nothing more than we love Thee, for thus we shall fear nothing also.’"

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Story of Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr. John Shea

"I pray in different ways at different times. I don’t have a set time to pray. Prayer for me is being responsive when I feel things beginning to move in me in some way.     Basically, I pray off an action-solitude type of dynamic. After an experience, I will wait for a while. A time will come and then I’ll just be alone with that experience. I will replay it and ponder it until the grace in the experience surfaces."

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Living Each Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doug Manning

    "When we realize that life lasts for a limited time, then we can get on with the business of living each day to the maximum."

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An Everyday Miracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wm. Jennings Bryan

    "Some skeptics say, ‘Oh, the miracles. I can’t accept miracles.’

    "Well consider this then. One may drop a brown seed in the black soil and up comes a green shoot. You let it grow and soon enough you’ll pull up a root that is red. Now you cut that red root and you find it has a white heart.

    "Can anyone tell me how this comes about—how brown cast into black turns up green with red underneath and white inside? Yet you eat your radish without even thinking of it as a miracle.…Everyday is a miracle—a miracle of life that sustains our hope!"

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Post a Sentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Source Unknown

    There is a story that tells how the Russian czar in 1903 noticed a sentry posted for no apparent reason in the midst of the Kremlin grounds. When he inquired of the captain of the guard, the czar was informed that in 1776 Catherine the Great found the first flower of spring blooming in that spot.

    "Post a sentry here," she commanded. "See to it that no one tramples that flower under foot!"

    And a sentry continued to be posted in that spot for the next 127 years.

 

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