Jesus said: "When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you."
- Luke 14:13-14
The test of our progress is not whether we add more
to the abundance of those who have much.
It is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Jesus preached more and taught more about helping
the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
Further reading:
Helping Others
All Brothers and Sisters
Out Purpose is To Serve
Unity with Spirit and All Creation
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't like the way the world is,
you change it.
You have an obligation to change it.
You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
If you don't like the way the world is,
you change it.
You have an obligation to change it.
You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Further reading:
Simply Do Your Best
Take Charge of Your Life
Step Up to the Plate
How to Feel Good About Yourself
Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created,
not just as it looked when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas
We need to think of the future and the planet we are
going to leave to our children and their children.
- Kofi Annan
Our Grandchildren's Planet
Reverence
For Our Children
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin
When you are through changing, you are through.
- Bruce Barton
Only when we realize that there is no eternal,
unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in
ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
- Hu Shih
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Further reading:
A New Perspective
Moving Forward
Rattlesnake of the Mind
Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind
Nothing can stop the [person] with the right
mental attitude from achieving [their] goal;
nothing on earth can help the [person]
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Your Attitude is Your Window
How to Choose Your Life Purpose
Could We Change Our Attitude...
What One Emphasizes
