The hardest seasons are sometimes the most poignantly beautiful – if you simply take the time to look.
Cease endlessly striving to do what you want to do and learn to love what must be done.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.
Charles Spurgeon
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43: 18-19
Contentment is accepting what God has given us, and by his strength, making the most of it.
C. J. Jackson
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
– Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
– George Washington Carver
To find the air and water exhilarating, to be thrilled by the stars at night, to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring, these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
~ John Burroughs
~ Henry James
Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith ~ Elizabeth Elliot