Anecdote - H. W. Beecher

Misfortunes Are Blessings

        The steel that has suffered most is the best steel. It has been in the furnace again and again, it has been on the anvil; it has been tight in the jaws of the vise; it has felt the teeth of the rasp; it has been ground by emery; it has been heated and hammered and filed until it does not know itself, and it comes out a splendid knife. And if men only knew it, what are called their “misfortunes” are God’s best blessings, for they are the moulding influences which give them shapeliness, and edge, and durability, and power.

A Prayer by Barbara Knight

A Prayer for Bible School

 

Lord, if You would grant me just one power

This is what I would ask:

Help me be a good teacher,

For the first and second grade class.

Help me instill upon their minds,

The love You have for us;

And let them carry it through the years

And within You put their trust.

For when little minds are taught,

The loving and happy way;

There is no path ever so dark,

That Your love won’t light the way.

Quotes - Real Friends (Part 2)

This is my beloved, And this is my friend,

- Solomon

The only way to have a friend is to be one. 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake 

– Aristotle

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. 

– Charles H. Spurgeon

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships 

– Abraham Lincoln

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! 

– Emily Dickinson

In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part 

– Alexander Pope

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right 

– Mark Twain

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. 

– Sicilian Proverb