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(www.geocities.com/houstonminister/annex.html)to see the Apostolic Lines of Succession of Reverend Louis Bernhardt, OSA.KINDNESS Be the change you want to see in the world. ---mahatma gandhi An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. ---mahatma gandhi The noblest revenge is to forgive. Judge not and you will not be judged. ---matt. 7:1 What you say means nothing, how you say it means everything. Do good by stealth and blush to find fame. ---alexander pope Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you… ---luke 6:27 Find yourself by losing yourself for others. ---mahatma gandhi The worst prison is a closed heart. ---pope john paul 2 My life is my message. ---mahatma gandhi Its nice to be important, but more important to be nice. Kindness begets kindness. ---sophocles Love is the gift of oneself. ---jean anouilh If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ---dalai lama Mitakuye Oyasin. [We are all related.] ---lakota belief No act of kindness is ever wasted. ---aesop Being good to others being good to yourself. Respect a man, and he will do the more. ---james howell Whoever digs a pit will fall in. ---proverbs 26:27 Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated. ---william james Love does not measure. It just gives. ---mother teresa Give until it hurts. ---mother teresa Your true wealth is the good you do in the world. ---mohammed RESPECT = A little thing with big meaning. Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. ---mary montagu Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ---william james Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ---philo tagore Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. ---mary montagu Conquer, but don't triumph. ---marie eschenbach Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. ---matt. 12:35 If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one. ---mother teresa Forgiveness is the noblest revenge. ---h.g. bolon It is a shameful thing to insult a child.---mark twain The weak can't forgive. Forgiveness is of the strong. ---mahatma gandhi To err is human, to forgive divine. ---alexander pope If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ---china My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ---dalai lama Handle yourself, use head; Handle others, use heart. ---eleanor roosevelt Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. Effects one directly, effects all indirectly. ---martin luther king People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. Live for others, and they will live for you. ---paramahansa True religion is the life we lead, not a creed.---louis nizer The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. ---elie wiesel You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ---indira gandhi The time is always right to do what is right. ---martin luther king To honor an old man is showing respect to God. ---mohammad People don't care what you know, till they know you care--watson I kept, I lost. I have, I gave. I gave, I gained. ---persian proverb What Everyone Needs = to be accepted by others One must lose one's life in order to find it. ---anne lindbergh Do you make others feel important? Friends don't demand your silence.---alice walker No man is a failure who has friends. ---it's a wonderful life A friend is a gift you give yourself. ---robert stephenson A friend in need is a friend indeed. ---latin proverbCOURAGE Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. ---niels bohr One man with courage makes a majority. ---thomas jefferson Forget mistakes, forget failure. Never forget your dreams. When we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ---dorothy thompson Falter, push me on. Stumble, pick me up. Retreat, shoot me. ---france The best way out is always through. ---robert frost Don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step ---m l king There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity---douglas macarthur Whoever said you have a right to give up? To succeed, we must first believe that we can. ---micheal korda You have enemies? Good. You've stood up for something.---churchill Better to climb and fall, than never strive at all. ---grace hinkey An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ---friedrich engels Fall seven times, stand up eight. ---japanese proverb Being defeated is temporary. Giving up is permanent. ---marilyn savant Never, never, never give in. ---winston churchill Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ---johann goethe Don't wait for moods. You'll accomplish nothing. ---pearl buck Everything is given at the price of an effort. ---leonardo da vinci God helps those who persevere. ---koran Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ---henri bergson Courage isn't lack of fear, it's the capacity to overcome it. Keep fears to yourself, share inspiration with others. ---robert stevenson ABCs of Success = ability, breaks, courage. ---charles luckman Hope = the last thing ever lost. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ---anais nin Courage is the ability to let of the familiar. Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ---james joyce Bitterness imprisons life. ---harry fosdick Worry never climbed hills, paid bills, dried tears, calmed fears. At least fail while daring greatly ---theodore roosevelt I bend, but I do not break. ---jean de la fontaine Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ---braveheart Fought a good fight, finished my course, kept the faith. ---timothy 4:7 Faith eliminates fear. ---lech walesa Opportunities multiply as they are seized. ---sun tzu If you think you can, you can. ---henry ford Believe your beliefs, doubt your doubts. Why worry of tomorrow, tomorrow will worry of itself. ---matthew 5:14 The gods favor the bold. ---ovid Worrying moves you, but doesn't get you anywhere. ---van wilder Si, Se Puede! ---Yes, we are able! Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ---spanish proverb What worries you, masters you. ---haddon w. robinson Give me liberty, or give me death. ---patrick henry Person without courage equals a knife without an edge. Believe your beliefs, doubt your doubts. People die, but their ideas live on. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ---frank leahy Without a struggle, there can be no progress. ---frederick douglass Give yourself permission, right now ---to be happy Do absolutely nothing daily. ---for a few minutesCHARACTERDon't stand for something? You'll fall for anything. ---african proverb Better to be one sided than two faced. Man's character is his fate. ---heraclitus The more you know the less you show. Character is power. ---booker t washington Before honor is humility. ---proverbs 18:12. Character is what you do when no one is looking. ---henry huffman A half truth is a whole lie. ---yiddish proverb Have more than thou show, speak less than thou know. ---shakespeare When in doubt, tell the truth. ---mark twain Humility= No one act big. No one act small. Everyone act medium. Justice is truth in action ---benjamin disraeli A lie has speed, truth has endurance. ---edgar mohn Don't compromise yourself. It's all you've got. ---janis joplin Let others praise you and not your own lips. ---pvbs 27:2 If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ---alan simpson Life= a long lesson in humility. ---james barrie Integrity needs no rules. ---albert camus If I lose my honor, I lose myself. ---shakespeare Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes. ---maggie kuhn The truth shall set you free. ---john 8:22 Honesty is the best policy. ---english proverb What's right isn't popular, what's popular isn't right. ---howard cosell Little strokes fell great oaks. ---benjamin franklin Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. ---sophocles Master habits before they master you. Opinions alter, but character does not change ---benjamin disraeli We make our habits, then our habits make us. Lying is done with words and also with silence. ---adrienne rich Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ---elbert hubbard Walk in another's shoes before judging them. Touch a person's heart before trying to change their head. Diminish your wants rather than increasing your needs. While there's life, there's hope. ---terenceCOMMUNICATIONSpeak softly, but carry a big stick.---theodore roosevelt Diplomacy is thinking twice and saying nothing. Well done is better than well said. ---benjamin franklin Better silent and thought a fool then speak and remove doubt ---lincoln The greatest truths are the simplest. ---hosea ballou First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.. ---epictetus Be sincere; be brief; be seated. ---franklin delano roosevelt Use soft words and hard arguments. ---english proverb Brevity is the soul of wit. ---william shakespeare FEAR False Evidence Appearing Real We have nothing to fear but fear itself. ---franklin d. roosevelt Think before acting. Hear before judging. Listen before speaking. Think much, speak little, and write less. ---italian proverb Examine what is said, not him who speaks. ---arab proverb Fences and arguments always have two sides Speak softly while others are shouting This above all: to thine ownself be true. ---william shakespeareANGER He who angers you, controls you. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ---robert ingersoll Sow discord, reap regret. ---arabian proverb Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. ---yoda A soft answer turns away wrath. ---proverbs 15:1 Pain is inevitable; misery, a choice. Hate is prolonged suicide. ---douglas steere The best cure for anger is delay. ---seneca The best remedy for anger is delay. ---brigham young Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. ---mario puzo Anger is a brief madness. ---horaceCREATIVITYImagination is more important than knowledge. ---albert einstein Water will wears away rock. Be flexible---chinese proverb Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens. ---jimi hendrix Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life-immanuel kant A closed mind is a dying mind. ---edna ferber Things do not change, we change. – Kalidasa A problem defined is half solved. ---john dewey Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ---voltaire A questioning man is halfway to be wise. ---irish proverb Knows others is wise, knows himself is enlightened. ---tao te ching As long as you're going to think anyways, think big.---donald trump Impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he knows. ---epictetus Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. ---thomas edison Only mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.---john powell Genius is eternal patience. ---michelangelo I have not failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work. ---edison I am still learning. ---michelangelo Can't make a mistake, can't make anything. ---marva collins Never stop questioning. ---albert einstein Creativity: Letting go of the familiar. The impossible is often the untried. ---jim goodwin Everything changes but change itself.– john f. kennedy Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ---greek proverb Great spirits find opposition from mediocre minds.---albert einstein Master concentration, master anything. Maturity of mind is capacity to endure uncertainty ---confucius A man of learning is never bored. ---jean richter Be a free man. Free to think, talk, and act for myself. ---chief joseph Never assume the obvious is true. ---william safire Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. ---bruce lee The person who has imagination has wings. ---muhammad Re ---examine all you have been told Genius reduces the complicated to simple. ---c.w. ceram Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. ---walter lipman The road less traveled made all the difference. ---robert frost What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ---john lubbock With our thoughts we shape the world. ---buddhaLEADERSHIPIf you can dream it, you can do it. ---walt disney Shoot for the moon! If you miss you'll land among stars. ---les brown First ponder, then dare. ---helmuth ludwig Vision w/o action = daydream. Action w/o vision = nightmare. ---japan He who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ---john swift Where there is no vision, the people perish. ---pvbs 29:18 A leader is a dealer in hope. ---napoleon Sheep led by a lion would defeat lions led by a sheep. ---arab proverb When nothing helps, do nothing. A leader is best when people barely know he exists. ---lao tzu TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More. Timber doesn't grow w/ ease, stronger wind, stronger trees ---marriott It is better to be loved than feared. ---senegalTEACHINGOnly the educated are free. ---epictetus I'm not a teacher, but an awakener. ---robert frost I think therefore I am. ---descartes When the student is ready, the Master appears. ---buddhist proverb Common sense is not common ---voltaire I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. ---confucius What you don't know can hurt you. ---lord chesterfield It's what you learn after you know everything that counts ---john wooden When you're through learning, you're through ---vernon law Knowledge is power ---sir francis bacon The unexamined life is not worth living. ---socrates A good example is the best sermon. ---herbert taylor Nothing in life is to be feared, only understood. ---marie curieLOVELove, an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ---robert frost Love isn't possession, kisses aren't contracts. ---veronica shoffstall If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's yours. Those who love deeply never grow old. ---arthur pinero I am my beloved, and my beloved is mine. ---song of solomon Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all. ---alfred tennyson Love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ---sam keen What's worth having is worth waiting for Love is friendship set on fire ---jeremy taylor If you would be loved, love and be lovable. ---benjamin franklin Never say I love you if you don't really care. Love isn't something you feel, it's something you do. ---david wilkerson Love begins when nothing is expected in return. ---antoine exupéry No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. ---sara teasdale To love is to be vulnerable. ---c.s. lewis Where there is love there is life. ---mahatma gandhi Make a living by what we get, a life by what we give. ---winston churchill Whoso loves, believes the impossible. ---elizabeth browning There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear. ---1 john 4:1LIFEJack of all trades, master of none. ---maria edgeworth Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can. ---john wooden The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ---benjamin disraeli A live dog is better than a dead lion ---prov 22:4 To do two things at once is to do neither. ---publilus syrus Wise and slow. They stumble that run fast. ---william shakespeare When you come to a fork in the road, take it. ---yogi berra Better hated for what you are than loved for what you're not ---a gide One today is worth two tomorrows. ---carlos romulo He did it with all his heart, and prospered. ---2 chr.31:21 The largest room is the one for improvement. Prevention is better than cure. ---charles dickens A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.---china Excellence is to do common thing in uncommon way-booker washington Seek wisdom of the ages, with eyes of a child. ---ron wild Not size of the dog in the fight, size of the fight in the dog ---eisenhower Greatest pleasure is doing what people say you can't do ---bagehot There is only one person you can change ---you. Things that hurt, instruct. ---benjamin franklin Honesty: speaking truth with frankness To do is to be. To be is to do. ---plato and socrates It always seems impossible until it's done. ---nelson mandela We spend more, but have less; We buy more, but enjoy it less. I still believe that people are good at heart. ---anne frank Do first things first, and second things not at all. ---peter drucker Treat everyone like you want to be treated. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ---vince lombardi If time is not managed, nothing else is. ---peter drucker. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today ---ben franklin Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ---george shaw Eat when hungry. Drink when thirsty. Sleep when tired. ---buddhist prov. Happiness is not a goal. It is a by ---product. – eleanor roosevelt Excellence is not an act, but a habit. ---aristotle I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. ---golda meir Life is ours to be spent, not saved. ---david lawrence Appreciate things without having to "own" them. Sing like nobody's listening, dance like nobody's watching, Believe in something bigger than yourself. It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years. ---abraham lincoln Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? ---rabbi hillel Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ---jonathon kozol We are all something, but none of us are everything. ---blaise pascal A merry heart does good like medicine ---proverbs 1:22 Be daring, be different, be impractical. ---cecil beaton Always do more than is required of you. Believe in something bigger than yourself. Eighty percent of success is showing up. ---woody allen Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. ---talmud I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ---william shakespeare Change yourself, then change the world. Get busy living or get busy dying. ---shawshank redemption Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ---david carradine LIFE ---love, integrity, faith, enthusiasm It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years. ---abraham lincoln Lost time is never found again. ---benjamin franklin Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ---helen keller Never miss a good chance to shut up. Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant. ---pt barnum Study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. ---william channing It's not the length of life, but the depth of life. ---ralph emerson Useless = doing efficiently that which shouldn't be done. ---peter drucker Secret of patience: doing something else in the meantime. Wherever you are, be all there ---jim elliot Your presence is your present to the world. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. ---master yoda Accept what you can't change, change what you can. What we do in life echoes in eternity. ---maximus decimus If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ---benjamin franklin He is the richest who is content with the least. ---socrates It is part of the cure to want to be cured. ---seneca May you live all the days of your life. ---jonathan swift Our costliest expenditure is time. ---theophrastus No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ---e roosevelt Age is a matter of mind, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Nothing is permanent but change. ---heraclitus Motivation gets you started. Habit keeps you going. ---jim ryuh Things do not change, we change. ---henry thoreau Live. Love. Learn. Leave a legacy. ---dr. stephen r. covey The best things in life aren't things. ---art buchwald If you want happiness for a lifetime ---help someone else. The cure for grief is motion. ---elbert hubbard Trust your hopes, not your fears ---david mahoney It's the characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things ---thoreau Know thine opportunity. ---pittacus The key to failure is to please everyone. ---bill cosby Leap and the net will appear. ---julia cameron The more you talk, the less you're listened to Empty hearts collect things.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, Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, not so much to be understood as to understand, not so much to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we awake to eternal life. ---st. francis of assisiDo all the good you can In all the ways you can In all the times you can To all the people you can ---john wesleyFor attractive lips, speak kind words. For lovely eyes, seek out good in people. For slim figure, share your food with hungry. ---sam levensonHatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ---martin luther kingFor everything there is a season, And a time for everything under the sky: A time to be born, a time to die; A time to mourn, a time to dance; A time to keep silence, a time to speak; A time for war, a time for peace. ---ecclesiastes 3:1Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, few desires. ---lao tzuTo look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in and To lend a hand. ---harry wadsworthKnowing is not enough;We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do. ---johann von goetheCarpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. ---horaceFear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours ---swedish proverbLife's a game, play it; Life's a opportunity, capture it. Life's a challenge, meet it; Life's a song, sing it. ---mother teresaOne word can frame a goal One smile begins a friendship One touch can show you care One heart can know what is true One life can make a difference.People are unreasonable and self centered; If kind, they accuse you of ulterior motives If honest and frank, they cheat you; What you build, they destroy overnight. Do it anyways! ---kent keithHate restrains; love releases. Hate is restrictive; love is tolerant. Hate closes doors; love opens doors. Hate injures people; love heals people. Hate evokes pride; love evokes humility.Don't walk front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and be a friend. ---albert camusIf you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you'll lose, you're lost. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can. ---walter d. wintleIf you trust yourself when men doubt you If you dream, and not make dreams your master If you think, and not make thoughts your aim; If you walk with kings, nor lose common touch Then yours is the Earth and everything in it. ---rudyard kiplingIn Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. In War: Resolution. Defeat: Defiance. ---winston churchillTo laugh risks appearing a fool, To love risks rejection, To live risks dying, But greatest risk, is to risk nothing. ---leo buscagliaWalk where you walk. Talk when you talk, Cry when you cry, Die when you die. ---allen ginsbergHappiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, he more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder. ---henry thoreauNothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. ---ralph sockmanI am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. ---edward haleA little more kindness, a little less creed, A little more giving, a little less greed. A little more "we," a little less "I", A little more laugh, a little less cry.L LISTEN to their followers E ENVISION a great future A ANTICIPATE problems D DISCIPLE their followers E EXPECT the best R RELY on others S SERVE their followers H HANDLE difficult situations I IGNITE enthusiasm P PRACTICE what they PreachWhen things go wrong, as they will, When the road seems all uphill, Stick to the fight when hardest hit, When things seem worst, don't quit.The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. ---buddhaAnyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way. That is not easy. ---aristotleHere's to the crazy ones. The rebels & misfits They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. ---jack kerouacSmall minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.Busy enough to make time. Free enough to endure captivity Great enough to be anonymous Important enough to be last Right enough to say "I'm wrong" Wise enough to say "I don't know"Love the earth, Despise riches, Stand up for the stupid and crazy---walt whitmanTo laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people; to leave the world better. This is to have succeeded ---ralph emersonDo more than exist; live. Do more than hear; listen. Do more than listen; understand. Do more than talk; say something. ---john rhoadesMeditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. ---buddhaLight in soul equals beauty in the person. Beauty in person equals harmony in house. Harmony in house equals order in the nation. Order in nation equals peace in world. –Chinese ProverbYesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. ---eleanor rooseveltIt is not the critic who counts; But the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; and spends himself in a worthy cause. ---theodore rooseveltDoubt sees the obstacles, Faith sees a way Doubt sees the nigh , Faith sees the day Doubt dreads a step, Faith soars on high. Doubt questions 'who , Faith answers, 'I.'Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, nor boast, nor is it proud. It is not rude, self seeking, nor easily angered, It always protects, trusts, hopes, preserves. Love never fails! ---corinthians 13