Included on this page are the thoughts for January through June 1997 only. I used the image above (I created it myself with Windows' Paintbrush/Paint) for the cover of each week's leaflet, which was printed on a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" sheet of paper using the landscape orientation and folded in half. Where you find gaps in the dates below, I missed preparing a leaflet for those weeks.

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."

Hebrews 11:1
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Faith is seeing the invisible, believing the incredible, and receiving the impossible."

Anonymous

"For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."

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"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it."

Deuteronomy 10:17-19 & Hebrews 13:2
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Sometimes it can be hard to take the hand of a stranger, but once you've done it, you aren't holding the hand of a stranger anymore."

General (Ret.) Colin Powell

"The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning."

Proverbs 14:6
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Knowledge is what is left when you have forgotten everything you have learned."

Unknown

"For he says, 'At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.' See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!"

2 Corinthians 6:2
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today."

Benjamin Franklin

"Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 3:13, 14
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"One who strives for nothing always attains it."

Annonymous

"'Honor your father and mother'--this is the first commandment with a promise...."

Ephesians 6:2
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"He is not a poor man who has a godly mother."

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"All I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother."

Abraham Lincoln

"Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate...."

Amos 5:15a
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

General (Ret.) H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

Hebrews 4:12
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"It is impossible to govern the world without God and Bible."

George Washington

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"

Romans 8:31b
(King James Version of the Bible)

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God's side."

Abraham Lincoln

"What is your life? for you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."

James 4:14b
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

Benjamin Franklin
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757

"Let brotherly love continue."

Hebrews 13:1
(King James Version of the Bible)

"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, 'Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you.'"

Mark 16:5-7
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Herein lies the heart of the Gospel Truth. It is for this hope that all Christians profess their faith in Jesus Christ to this day. What is this heart and hope of the Christian Faith? It is simply this: because Jesus Christ died on the Roman cross for the sins of the world, and because He came to life again on the third day after His death--an occasion now celebrated as Easter--all who accept and believe this simple truth will be saved from eternal death. Who else but God could make such a claim or offer such a hope?"

Chaplain Michael L. White
2-2 Field Artillery, Fort Sill, OK

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

1 Peter 2:16
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

Ronald Reagan
(First Inaugural Address, 20 January 1981)

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?"

Matthew 16:25, 26
(New International Version of the Bible)

"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well, what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state? Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills."

Thomas Jefferson

"Finally, brothers [and sisters], whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things."

Philippians 4:8
(New International Version of the Bible)

"You ARE what you THINK!"

Educational Slogan

"The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice."

Proverbs 12:15
(New International Version of the Bible)

"The wise learn from fools. Fools won't learn from the wise."

Tsang (Chinese Philosopher)

"I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love [beloved] among maidens. As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his intention toward me was love. Sustain me with raisens, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love. O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me! I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the wild does: do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!"

Song of Solomon 2:1-7
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"The Song of Solomon describes the love, passion, and intense desire between King Solomon and one of his 1,000 wives, but what is its spiritual significanse? Why is it in the Bible? It is a metaphor, a semblance of the love, passion, and intense desire God has for His people and which He wants us to have for Him. No wonder Jesus gave the supreme sacrifice of His life on the cross to save humanity! A love that strong pales all feeble human perceptions by comparison!"

Chaplain (CPT) Michael L. White

"Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor."

Romans 12:9
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Measures of Man (1959)

"Grudge not one against another, brethren [and sisters], lest ye be condemned: behold the judge standeth before the door."

James 5:9
(King James Version of the Bible)

"Life is too short, and eternity is too long, to hold grudges."

Chaplain (CPT) Michael L. White