Abe Lincoln on canine anatomy

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.


Abraham Lincoln

Do you love me? Feed my sheep.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

Falshoods and Errors

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.


Thomas Jefferson

Lessons

"If Jesus is our model, then servanthood is our method.

If servanthood is our method, then people are our ministry.

If people are our ministry, then involvement is the means."

We are "not servants to activities or to administrative details or to things.  We serve people."

Charles R. Swindoll

The Three Wonders of Heaven

You remember the story of the three wonders in heaven. The first wonder was, that we should see so many there we did not expect to see there; the second was, that we should miss so many we did expect to see there; but the third wonder would be the greatest wonder of all,—to see ourselves there.


Charles H. Spurgeon

Tyranny

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.


C. S. Lewis

"The Old That is Strong Does Not Wither" Tolkien

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."

— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)