The Enlightening messages

December 10, 2008

PATHWAYS TO PEACE

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."

- Matthew 5:9

INTEGRITY

"Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path and the only one upon which you will never get lost."

- M.H. McKee

JOY

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

- Eleonora Duse

KINDNESS

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

FAITH

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

- Helen Keller

COURAGE

"This is courage… to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."

- Euripedes

HOPE

"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."

- George Iles

CHARITY

"We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are."

- Desire-Joseph Mercier

LOVE

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

- Mother Teresa

PATIENCE

"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on, Hold fast, Hold out. Patience is genius."

- Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

DETERMINATION

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

GRATITUDE

"A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer."

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

HUMILITY

"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."

- Ezra Taft Benson

FORGIVENESS

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."

- Dag Hammarskjold

PEACE

"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.