SELF - SACRIFICE

SELF - SACRIFICE

Once when a fierce battle was being fought in the Netherlands, Sir Philip Sidney, the British Commander was severely wounded in the battle field. he was fast losing blood. feeling extremely thirsty he asked for a glass of water. 

As Sir Philip Sidney held the glass of water to his lips, he noticed a badly, wounded soldier looking longingly at it, his wide eyes showing all signs of the agony of death. Moved with COMPASSION for the dying soldier, he told the soldiers to offer the water to him saying, "His need is greater than mine."

• To recognize another's need and to sacrifice your own basic needs are truly praiseworthy. 
• To forget our own pain at someone else's agony and to console them in the mark of a selfless existence. 
• Moved with COMPASSION, Jesus touched the eyes. Immediately they regained their sight and followed him. (Mt (20:34)

LOVE

LOVE

1. True Love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.   - St Theresa of Lisieux

2. Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.   - Karl A. Menninger

3. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him/her with Love.  - Mahatma Gandhi

4. I Love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.    - Roy Croft

5. Love is patient and kind; Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.   - (1 Cor) Bible

6. Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark.     -Source Unknown

7. To Love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. 

   -   Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

8. True Love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.     - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

9. Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.   

   - Oliver Wendell Holmes

10. Love and a cough cannot be hid.      - George Hebert

TRUTH

TRUTH 

1. You never find yourself until you face the truth.      - Pearl Bailey

2. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.  

      - Benjamin Disraeli

3. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. 

       - Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.     - Max Fuller

5. Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it. 

           - Claude A. Helvetius

6. Always tell the truth  - it's the easiest thing to remember.     

      - David Mamet

7. Everyone wishes to have truth on his/her side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.     - Richard Whately

8. Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.  

      - Bernard Berenson

9. All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.     - Napoleon Hill 

10. Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.  

         - Voltaire

ANGER

ANGER

1. My dear brothers and sister, take a  note of this: 

"Everyone should be quick to Listen, 

Slow to speak and slow to become angry,

for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life 

that God desires."

- James 1:19-20

2. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.                       - Horace

3. anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. 

- Source Unknown

4. When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.                - Source Unknown

5. Anger begins with folly, and ends with Repentance. 

                                            -H.G Bohn    

6. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.       -  Seneca

7. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.     -Proverb

8. Man should forget his anger, before he lies down to sleep.   

     - Thomas De Quincey

9. Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. 

       - Benjamin Franklin

10. The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. 

        - Samurai maxim

EXAMPLE SPEAKS LOUDEST

EXAMPLE SPEAKS LOUDEST

Some young Christians were attending an international summer camp. One of the projects set before them was to discuss and explore ideas for spreading the Gospel in the world.

The discussing was wide and varied. It included the use of television and radio programmes, newspaper articles, notices in magazines, and so on. Finally, when they were out of ideas an African girl stood up and gave her opinion:

“In my country when we think that a pagan village is ready for Christianity, we don’t send them books and missionaries. We send them a good Christian family. The family’s example is a more powerful proclamation of the gospel than all the books in the world.

v     “You shall be my witnesses,” says Jesus (Acts 1:8)

v     “By this shall men know that you are my disciples, if you love one another?” (John 13:35)

v     The witness value of Christianity is central. A Christian is in the business of attracting, not promoting. 

PERSEVERANCE

PERSEVERANCE

Wilma Rudolph was a disaster from birth. She was a tiny premature baby, who caught pneumonia, then scarlet fever, and finally polio. The polio left one leg bodily crippled, with her foot twisted inward.

Until the age of eleven, Wilma hobbled around on metal braces. Then she asked her sister to keep watch while she practiced walking without the braces. She kept this up every day, afraid that her parents might discover what she was doing and she might be compelled to stop. Eventually feeling guilty she told her doctor, who was flabbergasted. However he gave her permission to continue as she was, but only for a short period of time.

Anyhow to make a long story short, Wilma worked away at it until she eventually threw away her crutches for good. She progressed to running and by the time she was sixteen she won a bronze medal in a relay race in the Melbourne Olympics. Four years later in the Roma Olympics she became the first woman in history to win three gold medals in track and field.

She returned to  a ticker tape welcome in the US had a private meeting with President Kennedy, and received the Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athlete.

v     We can grow in faith, love, patience, etc. by day-in-day-out practice and perseverance.

THE LEAST OF THESE

THE LEAST OF THESE

A king who had no son to succeed him posted a notice inviting young men to come along and apply for adoption into his family. The two qualifications were love of God and love of neighbour.

A poor peasant boy was tempted to apply, but fell unable to do so because of the rags he wore. He worked hard, earned some money, bought some new clothes, and headed off to try his luck at being adopted into the king’s family.

He was halfway there, however, when he met a poor beggar on the road, who was shivering with the cold. The young man felt sorry for him and he exchanged clothes with him. There was hardly much point in going any further toward the king’s palace at this stage, now that he was back in rags again. However, the young man felt that having come this far, he might as well finish the journey.

He arrived at the palace and despite the sneers and jibes of the courtiers; he was finally admitted into the presence of the king. Imagine his amazement to see that the king was the old beggar man he had met on the road, and he was actually wearing the good clothes the young man had given! The king got down form his throne, embraced the young man, and said, “Welcome, my son!”

v     There is a direct lesson in this story to show the welcome of God for king kind and the good when they come before him after death.

v     Whatever you do to the least of these, that’s what you do unto me. (Mt. 25:40)