Showing posts with label Angels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angels. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Children

There is no greater reward for a well-spent life than to see one's children well-started in life, owing to their parent's good health, good principles, fixed character, good breeding, and in general the whole outfit, that enables them to fight the battle of life with success. (William Graham Sumner, 1840 - 1940), American Sociologist in Pocket Positives, no page numbering)



Our society and many parts of the world are not child friendly:
  • child labor is used to make expensive running shoes for the global economy;
  • child soldiers are trained to hold and fire guns;
  • military spending takes priority over funding for child care and children's education.
And here, in the richest country on earth, one in every five children lives in poverty.

These facts certainly imply that children are not welcome.
(Kolya Braun-Greiner in The Upper Room Disciplines - 2003, 19 September)



Love children especially for, like angels, they too are sinless and they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
(Feodor Dostoevsky, 1821 - 1881, Russian Writer in Pocket Positives, no page numbering)


5 February 2013

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Angels Whisper

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
(Raymond Inmon in Touchstones, 1 July)
12 July 2012

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Abraham Lincoln


I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. (Abraham Lincoln comment to Frances B. Carpenter in Worthy Of Their Esteem by Iain C. Martin, p. 156)