If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and his word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
Words spoken by Daniel Webster 1782 – 1852
All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.
Henri Nouwen
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F Kennedy
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
Woodpeckers slam their heads into wood at a rate of 20 pecks per second. What protects them from injury is a spongy area that sits behind their beaks and acts as a shock absorber.
Approximately 50 percent of all orangutans have fractured bones, a result of falling off trees on a regular basis.
The koala does not need to drink liquids; it can obtain all of its liquids from eucalyptus leaves which are 50 percent water.
Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their necks: seven.
In giving us free will, God trusts us. He reaches out to us and says, ‘I love you so much that I even give you the right to reject my way and to go your own way.’ That really is amazing grace!
Rob Frost, from Doing the right thing – page 221
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