Good Friday 2020 - Sacrifice

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Matthew 25:40

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

Further reading: The Least Of These

Everything is God

Our Children's Earth

Unity with Spirit and All Creation
    

Good Friday 2019 - Sacrifice

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Matthew 25:40

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

The love of money is the root of all evil:
which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things;
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
- Timothy 6:10-11

Further reading: Everything is God

The Least Of These

Our Children's Earth

Unity with Spirit and All Creation
    

Just Give A Little More Than You Take, Each Day

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

It's not that hard to be a good person... 
Just give a little more than you take - each day.
Do a little something for someone less fortunate.
Do a little something for future generations yet unborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Your Life Purpose

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

A man's good name is his best monument
    

The Ultimate Test

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

The love of money is the root of all evil:
which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things;
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
- Timothy 6:10-11

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Matthew 25:40

Further reading: The Least Of These

Our Children's Earth

Unity with Spirit and All Creation

Everything is God
      

For Future Generations

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

The love of money is the root of all evil:
which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things;
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
- Timothy 6:10-11

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Matthew 25:40

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Further reading: Our Children's Earth

The Least Of These

Everything is God

Unity with Spirit and All Creation
    

To Do That Which Will Endure

The three controlling desires of every normal man seem to be:
First, to live. Not merely to exist.
Second, to be a man among men.
Third, to do that which will endure.
- James Hulme Canfield

Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime,
and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Further reading: A Truly Successful Life

The Seeds You Plant

Earning a Good Name

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Our Grandchildren's Planet

Full Measure

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

Further reading: Passing the Torch

Light for Others

Living Your Inspired Life

We Come This Way But Once

Our Grandchildren

What Really Matters

The Test is How We Care for Society's Children

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

Taxes are a very low price for the benefits of living in a civilized society.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: For Our Children

Gratitude for Our Blessings

Passing the Torch

What Is Life All About?

Civic Responsibility

Community

Cooperation

Children

Our Grandchildren

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Your Life Purpose

Your Legacy

A man's good name is his best monument

Children

Passing the Torch

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world,
who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
- Felix Adler

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation
with any race or nation known to history,
but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
- Kelly Millar

I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

Further reading: For Our Children

Pay It Forward

Responsibility to Future Generations

Our Light

Conscience

Leading by Example

We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Setting a Good Example

Be a Gift

Live a life you hope your children will emulate

Becoming a Leader

Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Your Life

Future Generations

For Our Children

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children:
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Further reading:  Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

The True Meaning of Life

Our Children's World

Responsibility to Future Generations

Kindness and Charity

Children

Future Generations

Conscience

Your Legacy

Child

Conscience

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Further reading: Standing Up For Principles

Values

Responsibility

Principles

Good Conscience

Leadership

Encouragement

Change

Conscience

Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

Expression of Universal Gratitude

Love or Fear?

Quotes about Conscience

Quotes about Choices

Quotes about Values

Thank You Quotes

Quotes to Live By

Words of Encouragement

Civic Responsibility

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. - R. Buckminster Fuller The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. - Gaylord Nelson If you aren't yet a registered voter, please register to vote TODAY. And consider signing up to vote by mail, or participating in early balloting. Further reading: Responsibility to Future Generations Together as brothers How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Our Children

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted. - Garrison Keillor If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love. - Dorothy Law Nolte If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. - Gaylord Nelson Further reading: Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable What is Love? Families and Social Expectations Kindness and Charity I thank Joy Warden for today's picture, and the next two days' pictures.

Generations

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas

Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -
for future generations.
Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
Literally planting trees for
your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,
but far more important...
use this symbolism - this imagery -
to represent the kind of legacy
you want to leave to future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The World We Leave Our Children

Leave the world a bit better

Aging With Grace by Dr. David Mokotoff

Generations Quotes

Quotes about Life

Quotes about Meaning

Quotes about Children

Pay It Forward Quotes