The Christmas Blessing

More quotes from this amazing book series!

"We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle." - Oswald Chambers

"All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant." - Henry David Thoreau

"All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy it its own way." - Leo Tolstoy

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guns." - Steve Prefontaine

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." - Agnes de Mille

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives." - C.S. Lewis

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous." - Thornton Wilder

"A mircale, my friend, is an event which creates faith." - George Bernard Shaw

"Only a life lived for others is the life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."" - Erma Bombeck

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is mingled with grief, love grows perhaps the greater." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather

"...let us run with perserverance the race marked out for us." - Paul of Tarsus

I know that each of these quotes will mean something different, something special, to each of us; but I just wish that they can provide you with the peace, comfort, hope and faith they have me. I also want to think each of you for being a part of my life, you have all touched my life more than you will ever know. Thank you.

Here is a link to the song "The Christmas Shoes", based on the first book...scroll down to the bottom to be directed to the music. Enjoy.
http://www.his-forever.com/christmas_shoes_by_newsong.htm