1^st MAY

"We know that all things
work together for good to
those who love God."

Romans 8:28 New King James Version

2^nd MAY

"I am but one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do I ought to do.
What I ought to do,
God helping me, I will do."

(Anon.)

3^rd MAY

"Man is what he believes"
(Anton Chekov)

"Age is no mark of credit unless you do something with it.""
(Irving Berlin)

4^th MAY

"Seal my lips on my aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by."
(17th century nun's prayer)

5^th MAY

"The difference between the modern generation and the one that went before it is that the older generation saw things in terms of black and white whereas the modern generation sees them in terms of indeterminate grey. "

(G.K.Chesterton)

6^th MAY

"Life to me is no brief candle, it is a splendid torch which I am holding and which at all costs I must make burn brighter before I pass it on."

(G.B.Shaw)

7^th MAY

"The greatest miracle may not be if God intervened in the laws of nature to do what we wanted but if we overcame our natural inclinations to do what he wanted"

(Anonymous)

8^th MAY

"It is not big armies which win battles; it is the good ones."

(Maurice de Saxe)
"A man who does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

(Henry Ward Beecher)

9^th MAY

"Never trouble trouble
'Till trouble troubles you:
You'll only double trouble
And trouble others too!

(Anon.)

10^th MAY

"We must learn to deal with the odd as well as the even in life as well as in mathematics."
(George Eliot)

"Find your inn before nightfall."
(Chinese saying)

11^th MAY

"I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I know),
Their names are what and why and when
And how and where and who."

(Rudyard Kipling)
 

12^th MAY

"The Christian gospel always rings true when true Christians ring it."
(Anonymous)

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
(Anon.)

13^th MAY

"As he grew older H.G. Wells said that he felt as he often did as a child when his nurse said, "Master George, it's time to put your toys away"

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow feels the attraction of earth. "
(H. W. Longfellow)
 

14^th MAY

"Foremost captain of his time,
Rich in saving common sense,
And , as the greatest only,
In his simplicity sublime "
(Tennyson on the death of the Duke of Wellington)

15^th MAY

"Life depends on elimination as well as upon assimilation."
(Malcolm Muggeridge)

"The important thing is not what we do but what we get done."
(W. H.)

16^th MAY

"Self reverence, self knowledge, self control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power."
(Alfred Lord Tennyson)

"Junior executive to friend, "My boss and I never clash. He goes his way and I go his."
(Cincinnati Observer)

17^th MAY

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it is one's destiny to do and do it "
(Henry Ford)

"Do what you can with what you have where you are."
(Theodore Roosevelt)

18^th MAY

"A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up."
(John Maxwell)

"Today's disaster is tomorrow's 'so what?'"
(Valerie Parv)

19^th MAY

"Tough times never last but tough people do"
(Robert Schuller)

"Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution. "
(Stanley Arnold)
 

20^th MAY

"Teach us, Good Lord, ... to give and not to count the cost."
(St. Ignatius)

"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence."
(Max Ehrmann)

21^st MAY

"Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set."
(Anon.)

If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room. "
(Anon.)

"People will follow your foot steps more readily than they will follow your advice."
(Anon.)

22^nd MAY

"Destroy your enemies by turning them into friends."  (Abraham Lincoln)

"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself."
(Andrew Carnegie)

"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterise our age."
(Albert Einstein)
"Mediocrity always begins with me."  (Bruce Lockerbie)
"A man can succeed at anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
(Walter Chrysler)

23^rd MAY

"I know we can make it, there is something inside us so strong."
(African song)

"I heard of a man who went about doing good. Sometimes I think we only go about."
(Kagawa)

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
(Abraham Lincoln)

24^th MAY

"God gives us our faces but we give ourselves our expressions." (Anon.)

"Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought." (Anon.)

"Before we can be a blazing fire we may need to rake out some ashes." (Anon.)

25^th MAY

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."
(Matthew 5.7 - New International Version)

"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord."

(Psalm 19.14 New International Version)

26^th MAY

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."  (John Keats)

"When I look at a rose, hold a new-born baby in my arms or share in the love of family I cannot believe that life lacks meaning."  (W. H)

"Not all who believe think, but he who thinks believes. He believes in thinking."
(St. Augustine)

"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars."
(Frederick Langbridge)

"You can only stumble if you're moving."  (Robert P. Carlton)

27^th MAY

"Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife."
(Proverbs 17.1 - New International Version)

"Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck."
(Psalm 69.1 New International Version)

"We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him."
(Romans 8.28 New International Version)

28^th MAY

"We do no great things only small things with great love." (Mother Teresa)
The elevator (to success) is out of order. You'll have to take the stairs."
(Joe Girard)
" What I live by I impart."  (St. Augustine)
"After looking at a star-lit sky Sir Isaac Newton said, "I think God's thoughts long after him."  - (Sir Isaac Newton)
"A man's character teaches over his head."  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Patriotism is not enough; there should be no bitterness towards anyone." (Edith Cavell)
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
(Soren Kierkegaard)
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.."
(Soren Kiekegaard)

29^th MAY

"Home is the place where family members go when they are tired of being nice to other people."  (Anon)
"What gain by reaching your goals is not as much as what you become by reaching them." (Anon.)
"The helping hand we need is most likely to be at the end of our sleeve." (Anon)
"The man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with an argument." (Anon.)
"We are human beings and not just human doings" (Anon.)
"God is generous with his gifts but economical also."  (Anon)

30^th MAY

"Every body has a niche that they were meant to fill
A corner of the universe in which to do God's will..." "

(Anon)

31^st MAY

"God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of
power and of love and of a sound mind."

(2 Timothy 1:7 New King James Version)