The Almighty will deliver you from evil. - Job 5:17-19

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
-Epictetus


It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.
-J. Petit Senn


If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
-Lord Chesterfield


Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
-Aristotle


What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
-Hecato, Greek philosopher


Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
-Herbert Otto


When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller


The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
-Catherine the Great


Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
-Thomas Paine


He knows the water best who has waded through it.
-Danish Proverb


Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
-Mme. Du Deffand


What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
-Thomas Sprat


Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8 (see also verses 9 -12)

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
- Mark 11:22-24

[God says], do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:10 (New International Version)


Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.
- Matthew 22:34-40

[God says,] "This rather is the practice that I wish:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke,
setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke,
sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless,
clothing the naked when you see them
and not turning your back on your own flesh.
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn;
your wound shall quickly be healed;
your vindication shall go before you,
and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call and the Lord will answer."
- Isaiah 58:6-9


The less you open your heart to others the more your heart suffers.
- Deepak Chopra