1^st September

"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable...think about such things"

(Philippians 4.8)

2^nd September

"Some men's ambition is art;
Some men's ambition is fame;
Some men's ambition is gold;
My ambition is the soul's of men." "

(William Booth - writing in the autograph album of King Edward V11 )

3^rd SEPTEMBER

"My soul is dried up, and the very nature of my work has caused the paralysis of that part of my brain on which the highest tastes depend."

(Charles Darwin)

4^th SEPTEMBER

"Not what we give, but what we share,
For the gift without the giver is bare,
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three - Himself, his hungering neighbour and me"

(James Russell Lowell)

5^th SEPTEMBER

"The only prize worth living is a clear conscience at the end of your days that you have lived a useful and a Christian life."

(The Duke of Edinburgh)

6^th SEPTEMBER

"The only difference between the difficult and the impossible is that
the impossible takes a little longer."

(Thomas Edison)

7^th SEPTEMBER

"Forgetting what is behind...I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus"

(Philippians 3.14 - NIV)

8^th SEPTEMBER

"If I have faltered more or less in my great task of happiness...
Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake."

(R. L. Stevenson)

9^th SEPTEMBER

"Should we not see that the lines of laughter about the eyes are just as much marks of faith as are the lines of care and seriousness.."

(Helmut Thielicke)

10^th SEPTEMBER

"Grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can;
And the wisdom to know the difference.

(Reinhold Niebuhr)

11^th SEPTEMBER

"Yet, in the maddening maze of things,
And tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed trust my spirit clings;
I know that God is good!"

(John Greenleaf Whittier)

12^th SEPTEMBER

"I know God would not give me anything I could not handle. I just wish that he didn't trust me so much"

(Mother Teresa)

13^th SEPTEMBER

"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

(Mark Twain)

14^th SEPTEMBER

"A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner self and outer life are based on the labours of other men living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received."

(Albert Einstein)

15^th SEPTEMBER

"Believe in yourself!...Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

(Norman Vincent Peale)

16^th SEPTEMBER

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
His mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is thy faithfulness."

("Lamentations 3:23 RSV)

17^th SEPTEMBER

"In order to survive the threat of madness in a mad world...one has to find a standpoint from which one cannot retreat."

(Morris West)

18^th SEPTEMBER

"Grace there is my every debt to pay,
Blood to wash my every sin away,
Power to keep me spotless day by day,
For me, for me!"

(Herbert, Howard Booth)

19^th SEPTEMBER

" And this is the confidence that we
have in Him, that if we ask anything according
to His will, He hears us."

(1 John 5:14)

20^th SEPTEMBER

"It is the man who knows firsthand
what it is to walk quietly, intimately
serenely with Christ,
whose life carries a special compulsion."

(W. Phillip Keller)

21^st SEPTEMBER

"Be more concerned with your character
than with your reputation, because your character
is what you really are, while your
reputation is merely what people think you are."

(James Wooden)

22^nd SEPTEMBER

"The Lord thy God in the midst of
Thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice
over thee with joy; he will rest
in his love, he will joy over thee with singing."

(Zephaniah 3:17)

23^rd SEPTEMBER

"There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want - and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second "

(Logan Pearsall Smith)

24^th SEPTEMBER

"For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favour and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless."

(Psalm 84:11 NIV)

25^th SEPTEMBER

"When people lose their faith it's not so much that they no longer believe in something . It's that they will believe in anything."

(Malcolm Muggeridge)

26^th SEPTEMBER

"For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them"

(Ephesians 2:10 RSV)

27^th SEPTEMBER

"Each day God sends His grace
To strengthen you and me;
We need to use today's supply,
And let tomorrow be"

(Anon)

"Habits are like beds - easy to get into and hard to get out of."
(Anon.)

"No man every got away from hypocrites by staying away from the church."
(Anon.)

28^th SEPTEMBER

"I must be getting absent minded for whenever I complain that things are not what they used to be I always forget to mention myself"

(George Burns)

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
(Chinese proverb)

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
(Will Rogers)

29^th SEPTEMBER

"...well hast thou fought The better fight who singly hast maintained...the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms."

(John Milton)

"I like getting into hot water. It keeps you clean."
(G. K. Chesterton)

"Of this just man let this just praise be given Heaven was in him before he was in Heaven."
(Isaak Walton)

 

30^th SEPTEMBER

"If everyone followed the 'eye for an eye' principle eventually the whole world would be blind."

(Gandhi)