The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.


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Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
ISAAC WATTS
Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the ...
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Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gi...
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For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
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A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
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How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book Go...
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But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.
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Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you've collected thrice The train of action throu...
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Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
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In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every da...
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How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! ...
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But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never mad...
ISAAC WATTS
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day Fro...
ISAAC WATTS
The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it
ALAN WATTS
Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropo...
HEATHER WATTS
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't abo...
CHARLIE WATTS
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin...
ALAN WATTS
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
ISAAC WATTS
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
ALAN WATTS
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the Unit...
ALAN WATTS
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the oce...
ALAN WATTS
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
ALAN WATTS
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
ALAN WATTS
Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ag...
NAOMI WATTS
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTS
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
ALAN WATTS
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i...
ALAN WATTS
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for...
ALAN WATTS
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identica...
ALAN WATTS
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,...
ALAN WATTS
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water,...
ALAN WATTS
He (Gould) didn't like being looked at that made an ongoing concert career impossible. He didn't enj...
ANDRE WATTS
It's not enough to play the best you can it takes a certain amount of luck. It's like blessings from...
ANDRE WATTS
The last few years have been a bit of a struggle. I got over the brain thing and my hand has come ba...
ANDRE WATTS
He (Gould) didn't like being looked at – that made an ongoing conce...
ANDRE WATTS
The conductor said that I won precisely because I made this mistake and managed to continue playing.
ANDRE WATTS
When you went to hear one of these people, ... it was their conviction that got you. They were each ...
ANDRE WATTS
It's not enough to play the best you can – it takes a certain amoun...
ANDRE WATTS
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
HEATHER WATTS
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let ...
HEATHER WATTS
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between ri...
ALAN WATTS
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be care...
REGGIE WATTS
The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.
REGGIE WATTS
With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our ti...
HEATHER WATTS
When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o...
NAOMI WATTS
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inherita...
ALAN WATTS