College Hill United Methodist Church

Start each day with a grateful heart.

Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson

Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles Schulz Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much larger and better in every way. John Muir Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. James Herriot

I don't think of misery, but of all the beauty that remains. Anne Frank At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me - some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it. ~ Harold Kushner

No One is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. ~Charles de Lint

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. Thomas Merton Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. Mitch Albom

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. Elizabeth Gilbert The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G.K. Chesterton

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark. ~ Anne Lamott It's about what you believe. And I believe in love. Only love will truly save the world. ~ Wonder Woman

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. Maya Angelou Time is a created thing. To say 'I con't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.' Lao Tzu

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. Elle Wiesel Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. Martin Luther King Jr.

You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. Anne Lamott ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, God's purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again. The Shack

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right. Seneca Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Dalai Lama

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people. Cornel West

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. John Steinbeck Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists , the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Seeking asylum is a human right. Amnesty International You have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. Warson Shire