I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another it's about the Christian ethic it's about kindness.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Any man may easily do harm but not every man can do good to another.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own and God willingly favors such a confidence.
God preordained for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice a part of the human race without any merit of their own to eternal salvation and another part in just punishment of their sin to eternal damnation.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style He just goes on trying other things.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process and you have to go from one level to another.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another.