wish Proverb
"I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings."-William Sloane Coffin
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Endeavor to live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry."-Anonymous
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."-Abraham Lincoln
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night in a closed room with a mosquito."-African Saying
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."-C.S. Lewis
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."-Henry Van Dyke
"The one who says it can't be done should get out of the way of the one who is doing it."-Chinese Proverb
"Make your life a mission--not an intermission."-Arnold Glasgow
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."-Mohandas Gandhi
"That bread which you keep belongs to the hungry; that coat which you preserve in your wardrobe, to the naked; those shoes which are rotting in your possession, to the shoeless; that gold which you have hidden in the ground, to the needy. Wherefore, as often as you are able to help others, and refuse, so often did you do them wrong."-Augustine
"I tell them I want peace because I don't want to break the hearts of the people that love me--and maybe I can make them think of their mothers and sisters. And if they think of them, they'll put up their guns and treat their business like any other man treats his, as something to work and forget when he goes home at night."-Al Capone
"This strange, weak obstinacy, this persistence in the wrong path of progress, grows weaker and worse, as do all such weak things. And by the time in which I write its moral attitude has taken on something of the sinister and even the horrible. Our mistakes have become our secrets. Editors and journalists tear up with a guilty air all that reminds them of the party promises unfulfilled, or the party ideals reproaching them. It is true of our statesmen (much more than of our bishops, of whom Mr. Wells said it), that socially in evidence they are intellectually in hiding. The society is heavy with unconfessed sins; its mind is sore and silent with painful subjects; it has a constipation of conscience. There are many things it has done and allowed to be done which it does not really dare to think about; it calls them by other names and tries to talk itself into faith in a false past, as men make up the things they would have said in a quarrel. Of these sins one lies buried deepest but most noisome, and though it is stifled, stinks: the true story of the relations of the rich man and the poor in England. The half-starved English proletarian is not only nearly a skeleton but he is a skeleton in a cupboard."-GK Chesterton, "Eugenics and Other Evils," Part 2, Ch. 1
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