Love Montana: September 2010

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Monday, September 6, 2010

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Becoming a Person of Excellence

Singing

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

-Maria Von Trapp

They who love, sing.

-St. Augustine

Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:19

Music is a gift and grace of God.

-Martin Luther

Days

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

-Hans Christian Anderson

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:11

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cheer

Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praises.

James 5:13

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face.

Proverbs 15:13

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

-J.R.R. Tolkien

It is still best to be honest and truthful; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.

-Laura Ingalls Wilder

Peace

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Live in peace with one another.

I Thessalonians 5:13

Depart from mischief, practice love, pursue the works of peace.

-Mennonite song

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you.

John 14:27

Health

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

-Henry David Thoreau

Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you."

Genesis 1:29

Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.

III John 2

Life is

One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something.

-Henry David Thoreau

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:10

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

-William Feather

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

-Booker T. Washington

Gratitude

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continually.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is good to give thanks to the LORD.

Psalm 92:1

Who does not thank for little things will not thank for much.

-Estonian Proverb

Thank You for the food we eat.

Thank You for the world so sweet.

Thank You for the birds that sing.

Thank You, God, for everything. Amen.

-Child's Grace

Books

Within the shelves of books along my wall

Are friends, on whom I often come to call.

-ksu

A house without books is like a room without windows.

-Horace Mann

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

-Garrison Keillor

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

-C.S. Lewis

Worker

No dream comes until you wake up and go to work.

-Unknown

Ask God's blessing on your work, but do not ask Him to do it.

-Unknown

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

-Mark Twain

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men.

Colossians 3:23

Truth

Thy word is truth.

Psalm 119:160

But let all things be done properly and in an orderly manner.

1 Corinthians 14:40

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

-Aristotle

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.

Isaiah 40:8

Be a Flower

The best is worth the reach.

-Unknown

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

-Joseph Addison

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

-St. Francis of Assisi

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

-John Bunyan