Never criticize a problem unless you are willing to serve as a solution to the problem.

John Diller, Sparta, TN
Beside the Still Waters, Vol. 29, Issue 6

Let us therefore follow after things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as pretext to evil.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like the wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:8

’Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the general flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Even a small star shines in the darkness.
Danish Proverb

Imagination will often carry us into worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan (1934-96)

A talebearer reveals secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.