God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. — Izaak Walton

Deep Abiding Devotion

 
Aevia — Consider the Source

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Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. — Oprah Winfrey

Deep Abiding Devotion

 
Aevia — Consider the Source

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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. — James A. Lovell

Deep Abiding Devotion

 
Aevia — Consider the Source

© 2011 The Aevia Charitable Trust — Robert H. Kalk – Lead Trustee

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. — Alan Cohen

Deep Abiding Devotion

 
Aevia — Consider the Source

© 2011 The Aevia Charitable Trust — Robert H. Kalk – Lead Trustee

Here we have not to do with the union of absorption, but with a union that grows out of reciprocal intercourse, a union of heart and will and intellect; and such a union is possible only between personal beings. Only the personality of God makes possible the union of communion with him.  —Albert C. Knudson (1930)

The gist of the matter is this: God, as conceived by Jesus, receives and forgives the sinner, not for the purity of heart and life he has actually attained, but for that which he penitently and faithfully strives to attain.  —A. Campbell Garnett (1942)

You cannot put inward peace under a microscope. You cannot weigh a prayer. You cannot measure moral certainty.  —Edwin Lewis (1931)

The religion of the spirit leaves you free to follow truth whithersoever it may take you. —Ernest Fremont Tittle (1928)

A discouraged and downcast fellow, struggling with obstacles and fighting with failures, will often deliberately attribute all his misfortune and difficulties to some trifling mistake in his youth, or to some insignificant blunder or minor transgression in later life.
There recently came into our clinic a young man whose life was a perfect failure; he had contemplated suicide, but a friend urged him to come and see us. After an hour’s talk he was ready to go to work and he has continued to make rapid progress and satisfactory improvement…. In times of trouble and harassment, let us swell out our chests, breathe deeply, and face these trifling difficulties like men.  —William S. Sadler, M.D. (1914)

A great many of the educated youth of [the United States and Canada] … find it difficult to understand how a Church founded by Christ can show such feeble loyalty to the principles of truth, the way of life and the spirit of love to which His life was dedicated. Their very loyalty to the Christ of the Gospels often makes it difficult for them to be enthusiastically loyal to the Church which bears His name. —Rufus M. Jones (1932)