Month: November 2020

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

2 Chronicles 7:14

― King James Version Public Domain

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

― St. Francis of Assisi

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!”

― Germany Kent

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

― Corrie ten Boom

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

― Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“Shall we not put our wills fully in touch with God, and sheer out of  sympathy with the other one, and persistently plead and claim for each loved one, “deliver him from the evil one, and work in him Thy will, to Thy glory, by Thy power, in the Victor’s name.”  And then add amen–so it shall be.  Not so may it be–a wish, but so it shall be–an expression of confidence in Jesus’ power.  And these lives shall be won, and these souls saved.

― S.D Gordon, Quiet Talks on Prayer

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

― Emily Dickinson