Included on this page are the thoughts for January through June 1998 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.

"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

Proverbs 16:18
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"No one has ever choked to death from swallowing his pride."

Our Daily Bread, 21 April 1998

"As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience."

Colossians 3:12
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindess and compassion."

Thomas Jefferson

"'They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.' Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, 'Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?' Jesus answered him, 'Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.'"

John 14:21-24
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but on what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"'I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.'"

John 15:11-14
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"The ordinary group of worshipping Christians, as the preacher sees them from the pulpit, does not look like a collection of very joyful people. In fact, they look on the whole a rather sad, tired, depressed people. It is certain that such people will never win the world for Christ.... It is no use trying to pretend: we may speak of joy and preach about it: but, unless we really have the joy of Christ in our hearts and manifest it, our words will carry no conviction to our hearers."

Stephen Neill, The Christian Character

"Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man [or woman] avails much."

James 5:13-16
(New King James Version of the Bible)

"I have found the greatest power in the world in the power of prayer."

Cecil B. DeMille
American Film Maker
(Guideposts, April 1998, p. 5)

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: ...a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace."

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 8
(New International Version of the Bible)

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

George Washington
From his Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790

"Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

Ephesians 4:31, 32
(New International Version of the Bible)

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

Abraham Lincoln
From his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865, about one month before his assassination

"Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us."

Romans 5:1-5
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

Frank Outlaw
Guideposts Magazine, February 1998, p. 9

"Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us."

Romans 5:7, 8
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"The only eccentricity that I can discover in the heart of God is that a God such as He is should love sinners such as we are!"

A. W. Tozer
Noted Christian Pastor and Author

"You shall not bear false witness [tell lies] against your neighbor."

Exodus 20:16
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"If you always tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you say."

Unknown

"Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 4:6, 7
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble."

Philipp Melanchthon
(Guideposts Magazine, Nov. 1997, p. 27)

"Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you. Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.... They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praise of the Lord."

Isaiah 60:1-3, 6b
(New Revised Standard Version of the Bible)

"Now that the Light of the World has shown brightly unto us all, let us share it with whomever we meet. May you have a Happy and Blessed New Year!!"

Chaplain (CPT) Michael L. White
2-2 FA and 3-30 FA, Ft. Sill, OK