The kingdom of Heaven is within you... Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all things will be added unto you.--JUSUS

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who haveneed of help, something for which you get no pay but theprivilege of doing it. -- Albert Schweitzer

Every one that hangs about the court does not speak to the king. -- Thomas Watson

Some people read their Bible in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like toread mine in the Holy Ghost. -- Smith Wigglesworth

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are animmortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut? -- Herrik Johnson

Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hearfrom heaven. -- Andrew Murray

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts. -- François Fénelon

A knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningfullife. -- Billy Graham

The tearful praying Christian, whose distress prevent his words,will be clearly understood by the Most High. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

As gold is purified in the furnace, so the faithful heart ispurified by sorrow. -- Guarini

Faith lives in a broken heart. "He cried out with tears, Lord,I believe." True faith is always in a heart bruised for sin.Saving faith always grows in a heart humbled for sin, in aweeping eye and a tearful conscience. -- Thomas Watson

The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were,joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us examplenot only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer.How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God! -- Matthew Henry

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as wewalk. -- Francis of Assisi

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthlyheart. -- William Gurnall

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for youwere not created to find your rest in them. -- Thomas à Kempis

Our work here is brief but its reward is eternal. Do not bedisturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes away like ashadow. -- Clare of Assisi

We can love the world, or love God. If we love the world, therewill be no room in our heart for the love of God. We cannot loveboth God, who is eternal, and the world, which is transitory. -- St. Augustine of Hippo

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of everypreacher and of each believer. -- Thomas Aquinas

We are the sermons the world is heeding. -- Billy Graham

Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after theresults. -- Mary Slessor

If we spread the gospel, Jesus will spread the salvation. -- Juha Räihä

Ultimately, evangelism is not a technique. It is the Lord of theChurch who reserves to Himself His sovereign right to add to HisChurch. -- John Stott

It is better to be faithful than famous. -- Theodore Roosevelt

The command to evangelize is a part of God's law. It belongs toGod's revealed will for His people. It could not, then, inprinciple be affected in the slightest degree by anything thatwe might believe about God's sovereignty in election andcalling. -- J. I. Packer

Help us to help each other, Lord,Each other's cross tobear,Let each his friendly aid afford,And feel his brother'scare. -- Charles Wesley

The church is an organism, not an organization; a movement, nota monument. -- Chuck Colson

There is no way of belonging to Jesus Christ except by belonginggladly and irrevocably to the glorious ragbag of saints andfat-heads who make up the One, Holy and Universal Church! -- Bishop Geoffrey Paul

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. -- John Milton

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.-- John Wesley

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like alone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter. -- John of the Cross

Behind every saint stands another saint. -- Friedrich von Hügel

They that know God will be humble; they that know themselvescannot be proud. -- John Flavel

Help us to help each other, Lord, Each other's cross tobear, Let each his friendly aid afford, And feel his brother'scare.-- Charles Wesley

We have been friends together

We have been friends togetherIn sunshine and in shade.~Caroline Sheridan Norton

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson,

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey

Some people come into our lives and quickly go

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn,

The best kind of friend

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow

A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.

I expect to pass through life but once.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. ~Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.

Too often we underestimate

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest