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Quotes and Poems

Quotes

“We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”

-Aristotle

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

-Harriet Beecher Stowe

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies."

-Hudson Taylor

“Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.”

-John L. Motley

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the Ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."

-John Wesley

"Holy living consist in doing God's work with a smile."

-Mother Teresa

“We make a living by what we get, But we make a life by what we give.”

-Sir Winston Churchill

"Only one life, 'Twill soon be past; Only what's done for Christ will last."

-English Script

"Every good work should be a revelation of the glory of God. What makes the good deed an act of love is not the raw act, but the passion and the sacrifice to make God himself known as glorious."

-John Piper

"It is good to work and have. It is better to work and have in order to give."

-John Piper

"To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of the Christian...to help them is."

- Frank A. Clark

"God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love."

- Francis Chan in Crazy Love

"...we show tangible love for God in how we treat the poor and the desperate as if they were Christ Himself."

- Francis Chan in Crazy Love

Poems

Deeds of Love

Lord help me do a loving deed today

Doors of opportunity may not always open stay.

Lord lead me where you would have me go.

Help me some deed of love to show.

Make my life a light for Thee.

To shine in worldly darkness for others to see.

Take my mind, my hands, my heart,

that deeds of loving kindness they may impart.

While in this world of sin I stay

Give me guidance day by day.

Lead me in love, some kind deed to see

That it might be a service for Thee.

And when my time is finished below,

That where Jesus is, there may I go.

By Elsie Rousseau

April 6, 1982

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Take my life, that I may be

Consecrated, Lord, to thee;

Take my moments and my days;

Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my hands and let them move

At the impulse of thy love;

Take my feet and let them be

Swift and beautiful for thee.

Take my voice, and let me sing

Always, only, for my King;

Take my lips and let them be

Filled with messages from thee.

Take my silver and my gold,

Not a mite would I withhold;

Take my intellect, and use

Every power as thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it thine;

It shall be no longer mine.

Take my heart, it is thine own;

It shall be thy royal throne.

Take my love; my Lord, I pour

At thy feet its treasure store;

Take myself, and I will be

Ever, only, all for thee.

By Frances Ridley Havergal

Sermon's We See

I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day.

I’d rather one would stop walk with me -- than merely show me the way.

The eye’s better pupil -- more willing than the ear,

Fine counsel is confusing, but examples always clear.

And the best of all the people are the ones who lived their creed,

For to see the good in action is what everyone needs,

I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done,

I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.

The lectures you deliver may be very wise and true --

But I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do.

For I may misunderstand you, and the high advise you give,

But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.

By Edgar Guest