“Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!” - Luke 1:45


You can become everything God had in mind when he created you.” - Tom Newberry

The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

Kent M. Keith


High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods. - Tom Newberry

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.” - Viktor E. Frankl

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. - Terri Guillemets

What you risk reveals what you value. - Jeanette Winterson

Our lives are shaped by the things we desire. - Thomas Merton

You’ve spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you’ve done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that’s been waiting for you all the time.” - Brandi Snyder