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July 14th - July 21st

• Real and lasting victories are those of peace and not war.(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Every truly deep thought becomes religious.(Albert Schweitzer)

June 23rd - June 30th

• Religion happens when you open your mind to truth, your conscience to justice and your heart to love.(A. Powell Davies)
• Let us examine everything with the greatest freedom.(Joseph Priestley)

June 16th - June 23rd

• Put the important before the merely urgent.(Len Murray)
• It is great to be great but it is even greater to be human.(Will Rogers)

June 2nd - 16 June

• Judge people by the way they treat those who can be of no use to them.(Anon)
• Religion needs to permeate the common life of every day.(The Dalai Lama)

May 26th - June 2nd

• Playing small does not serve the world(Nelson Mandela)
• Whenever you say, "I'm bored" be sure you don't mean, "I'm boring" (Humphrey Lyttleton)

May 12th - May 26th

• Give yourself permission to live, love and laugh.(Peter McWilliams)

April 28th – May 12th

• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.(Pat Conroy)
• The music that can reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.(Emerson)

April 21st - April 28th

• Love your enemy, it will ruin his reputation.(Archbishop Desmond Tutu)
• A human person is more than a computer made of meat.(John Polkinghorne)

April 7th - April 21st

• The faith that stands on authority is not faith. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• If you have knowledge let others light their candles at it.(Margaret Fuller)

March 24th – April 7th

• (One must be poor to know the joy of giving.George Eliot)
• The wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.(Ptahhotpe)(2350 BC)

March 18th – March 24th

• One who seeks revenge should dig two graves.(Chinese Proverb)
• What is terrible is to pretend that the second rate is first rate.(Doris Lessing)

March 3rd - March 18th

• No act of kindness however small is ever wasted.(Aesop)
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.(Anais Nia)

February 24th - March 3rd

• True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. (Martin Luther King)
• Seek to hold and not to cling, to enjoy and not to possess.(Anon)

February 17th - February 24th

• We too must write Bibles.(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• I'd rather be in a workhouse with an optimist than a palace with a pessimist. (Cardinal Heenan)

February 10th - February 17th

• Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. (James Luther Adams)
• Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.(Oscar Wild)

February 3rd - February 10th

• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.(George Eliot)
• Your children need your presence more than your presents.(Jesse Jackson)

January 27th - February 3rd

• The wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.(Ptahhotpe)(2350 BC)
• A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.(Chinese proverb)

January 20th - January 27th

• Ours is an age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of people that try to.(H. M. Jones)
• Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.(H. Jackson Brown)

January 6th - January 20th

• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.(Bertrand Russell)
• We best satisfy ourselves when we look beyond ourselves.(Epicurus)

December 30th - January 6th

• If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it?(Chinese proverb)
• I'm glad to be here. It's real good to be here.(Lonnie Stewart)(aged 103 years)

December 23rd – December 30th

• A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.(Carl Sandberg)
• If you cannot do great things, you can do small things in a great way.(James Freeman Clarke)

December 16th – December 23rd

• Each night a child is born is a holy night.(Sophia Lyon Fahs)
• Unanswered questions are less dangerous than unquestioned answers.(Anon)

December 9th - December 16th

• The swing of a sword cannot cut the mist from the sky.(Fan Li)
• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?(George Eliot)

December 2nd - December 9th

• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. (Chinese Proverb)
• You can always tell a true friend; when you've made a fool of yourself s/he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. (Laurence J. Peter)

November 25th – December 2nd

• So long as I love beauty I am young. (W. H. Davies)
• It’s the set of the sails and not the gales, that determines the way we will go (Anon)

November 18th – November 25th

• There is no mistake so great as that of being always right. (Samuel Butler)
• Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. (Dr Samuel Johnson)

November 11th – November 18th

• People without a sense of humour should never be allowed to be in charge of anything. (Robert Runcie)
• Love is weak and hate is strong, yet hate is short and love is long. (Kenneth Boulding)

November 4th – November 11th

• It is the mark of the educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)
• If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things. (Vincent van Gogh)

October 28th – November 4th

• Save your soul? No, I will spend mine! Or give it away. (Linda M. Underwood)
• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. (William Blake)

October 21st - October 28th

• It is easier to label people than to understand them (Lionel Blue)
• Failure is not falling down but staying down (Mary Pickford)

October 14th – 21st

• Life is not an exact science; it is an art. (Samuel Butler)
• In the midst of confusion speak a quiet word of truth. (Dwight Brown)

October 7th – October 14th

• Patience is a revolutionary virtue (Daniel Berrigan)
• We need not think alike to love alike (Francis David)

September 30th – October 7th

• Justice is like the Kingdom of God. It is within us as a great yearning. (George Eliot)
• May your life preach more loudly than your lips. (William Ellery Channing)