C.S. Lewis

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.

Nevertheless…

by Max Lucado
 
 And the king and his men… spoke to David, saying, “You shall not come in here; but the blind and the lame will repel you,” … Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).
 — 2 Sam. 5:6–9

Victor Frankl & Edith Eger (both survived Auschwitz)

Everything can be taken from a man but …the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The Woodcutter’s Wisdom

by Max Lucado

Once there was an old man who lived in a tiny village. Although poor, he was envied by all, for he owned a beautiful white horse. Even the king coveted his treasure. A horse like this had never been seen before — such was its splendor, its…

God Does Big Things with Small Deeds

by Max Lucado

“Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin” (Zech. 4:10 NLT).
 
 Begin. Just begin! What seems small to you might be huge to someone else. Just ask Bohn Fawkes. During World War II, he…

C.S. Lewis

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.

A pathway in the wilderness, streams in the desert…

Looking for an answer, for a way out or through? He will make a pathway in the wilderness and streams in the desert (Isaiah 43 :19). What a great visual — cutting a path through the wild, bringing quenching water to the thirsty. Sign me up…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Jackson Browne

If you ever need holding
Call my name, I’ll be there
If you ever need holding
And no holding back, I’ll see you through

Where the touch of the lover ends
And the soul of the friend begins
There’s a…