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A Community of Grace
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2201 Benita Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Phone: (916) 635-5502 Fax: (916) 635-4985
E-Mail GraceRCelca@sbcglobal.net
Office Hours 9 am - 2:30 pm
The Rev. Steven D, Krogh, Pastor
The C. Arthur Schultz, Pastor Emeritus
The summer rose the sun has flushed With crimson beauty, may be sweet; "Tis sweeter when its leaves are crushed Beneath the wind's and tempest' feet.
It is a truth beyond our ken,
And yet a truth which all may read;
It is with roses as with men,
The sweetest hearts are those that
bleed.
Father Ryan.
The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but
one,
Yet all of daylight flies when
the sun goes
down,
The mind had a thousand eyes, and the heart but
one,
Yet the light of whole life dies when Love is
done.
F. W.
Bourdillon.
A soul occupied with great ideas best
performs small duties.
James Martineau.
It is the lives like the stars which simply
pour down on us the calm light of their bright and
faithful being, up to which we look, and out of which
we gather the deepest calm and courage.
Phillips Brooks.
"failing to keep an appointment is an act of
clear dishonesty. You might as well steal a man's
money as his time."
I was at an early age thrown into a work for
which I had no special training, but I had been
brought face to face with necessity, I had found
life sadly real, and in my ignorance of other ways
of study, I resolved to take therefore my watch word;
To be thoroughly in earnest and, intensely in earnest,
in all my thoughts and all my acts became my single
idea, and I honestly believe that any greatness can
be achieved without it.
Charlotte Cushman.
"There is a power in the direct glance of a
sincere and loving soul which will do more to
dissipate prejudice and kindle charity than the most
elaborate argument."
"A man is relieved and gay when he has out his
heat into his work and done his best. What he has
done otherwise shall give him no peace."
"With malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right, as god gives us to see
the right" - so let us live.
"Finally, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are of good report . . think of these
things."
Let all the good thou dost to man,
And he will more remember thee,
The more thou dost forget.
The weakest among us has a gift, however
seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him, and which
worthily used, will be a gift also to his race.
Ruskin.
"Like as a plank of driftwood tossed on the
raging main,
Another plank encounter, meets, touches,
parts again,
So like unceasing ever on life's tempestuous
sea,
Men meet and greet and sever, parting eternally!
"It is not good for human nature to have the
road of life made too easy. So it is a common saying
that the men who are most successful in business are
those who begin the world in their shirt sleeves,
while those who begin with fortunes generally lose
them."
"To thine self be true,
And it must follow, as night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Moments spent in idle gossip. Hours in aimless
castle building. Days moaning, "It might have been."
Weeks in hopeless lifting, Months in waiting for a
better chance. Years in climbing without a ladder.
Scores of golden chances to improve self. Hundreds
of opportunities to "lift up" others. Thousands of
open doors passed by unentered. Power with men
forfeited because of separateness from God. Influence
thrown overboard by reason of a thoughtless misstep
The past is done. Bury it! The coming moments,
hours, days weeks, months, years! Redeem them!
DO RIGHT.
Do the right and fear no thought
That another may express;
They your conscience have not taught,
And your lives may never bless.
Do what conscience says is right,
Then life's safest rule is yours;
And you follow in the light
That forevermore endures.
Men will differ and may change;
And if a man you seek to please,
You may often think it strange
That it is no path of ease.
For no matter what you do,
Some will think it is not right;
So to your own souls be true,
Then you'll follow God's own light.
Martha S. Lippincott.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control.
These three alone lead man to sovereign power.
Tennyson.
"I would not waste my spring of youth
In idle dalliance; I would plant rich seeds
To Blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit
When I am old."
He who, at the end of his course on earth can
look back over a life in which thought and love and
duty, justice and kindliness and help and appreciation
of good have been a success.
Remorse paralyzes the energies and unfits a man
for the doing of manly work. Be sorry for your sins but
evince your sorrow not in the shedding of useless
penitential tears, but in trying to do a little better. Repent
with a repentance not to be repented of by writing in
the history of this great universe deeds of duty, of mercy
and of love, Today is ours. Fell it with right and duty,
with light and with joy.
James K. Applebee.
Courage which look easy and yet is rare - the
courage of the teacher repeating day after day the
same lesson - is the least regard of all forms of
courage.
Balzac.
"Trifles make perfection, but perfection is
no trifle.:
"If I could do such a thing", sighs the youth. But you never will do it if you only wish. The desire must ripen into purpose and effort. One energetic stroke is worth a thousand aspiration.
What position shall good men and women take in regard to attacks on character? Shall we believe or reject it? I say by all means reject it. I here and now declare my intention never to believe any thing about anybody until it is proven and even then I shall hope there is some mistake about it.
T. Dewitt Talmage.
You are on a journey, and object of that journey is the discovery of the divine secret of life; to find your manhood and your womanhood;
to enjoy, to grow, to serve, to become the noblest possible.
J. F. Clarke.
If any of you have not all you want, or think you have been ill-used at the hands of life, suppose you go to work and try to reckon up just how much you have deserved, and on what ground you would base your claim for more.
All you have is an outright gift, and what you lack or wish does not represent a debt that anyone has unjustly refused to pay.
Savage.
"The more we know the better we forgive;
Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live."
A calm more awful is than storm.
Beware of clams in any form;
This life means action.
Joaquin Miller.
Ships are not built to lie idly in the harbor but to sail the seas. No more was the human mind intended to lie cable-bound in the back bay or superstition, but to sail the seas of thought and progress.
W. M. Chandler.
It is the part of an indiscreet and troublesome ambition to care too much about fame, about what the world says about us; to be always looking into the face of others for approval; to be always anxious for the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting to hear the echo of our own voices.
If you look around you, you will see men who are wearing life away in feverish anxiety for fame; and the last we shall ever hear of them will be the funeral bell that tolls them to an early grave.
If you want a boy to have tough mental fiber in after life, keep him in childhood on a few strong book that he must chew.
Starr King.
"How beautiful is youth? how bright it flames,
With its illusions, aspiration, dreams!"
"All wisdom is not bound up in Greek and Latin."
"Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. Greatly begin; though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime;
Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
J. R. Lowell.
"You might read all the books in the British Museum, if you could live long enough, and remain utterly uneducated. But if you read ten pages of a book with real accuracy, you are forevermore, in some measure, an educated person."
"Beauty enchants and grace captivates for a season; but a well informed mind and a cultured heart will make a home beautiful when the bloom of beauty has faded and gone."
T. W. Hanford.
SWEETER THAN EVER
There are Poems unwritten and song unsung,
Sweeter than any that ever were heard -
Poems that ripple through lowliest lives -
Songs that but long for a Paradise bird. Poems that ripple through lowliest lives
poems unnoted and hidden away
Down in the souls where the beautiful thrives,
Sweetly as flowers in the airs of May. Poems that only the angles above us,
Looking down deep in our hearts may behold -
Felt, though unseen, by the beings who love us,
Written on lives as in letters of gold.
WORK
Let me but do my work from day to day,
In field or forest, at the desk or loom,
In roaring market place or tranquil room
Let me but find it in my heart to say,
When vagrant wishes beckon me stray -
This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;
Of all who live, I am the one by whom
This work can best be done in the right way.
Then shall I see it not too great, not small,
To suit my spirit and to prove my powers
then shall I cheerful greet the laboring hours,
And cheerful turn when the long shadows fall
At eventide, to play and love and rest,
Because I know for me my work is best.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
LIFE.
Let me but live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul
Nor hastening to, nor turning from the goal
Not mourning for the things that disappear
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear
From what the future veils; but with a whole
And happy heart, that pays its toll
To youth and age, and travels on with cheer.
So let the way windup the hill or down,
Through rough and smooth, the journey will be
joy;
Still seeking what I sought when but a boy,
New friendship, high adventure, and a crown.
I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest
Because the roads last turn will be the best.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
LOVE.
Let me but love my love without disguise.
Nor wear a mask of fashion on new,
Nor want to speak till I can hear a clue,
Nor play a part to shine in other's eyes,
Nor bow my knees to what my heart denies;
But what I am, to that let me be true,
And let me worship where my love is due,
And so through love and worship let me rise.
For love is but the heart's immortal thirst
To be completely known and all forgiven,
Even as sinful souls that come to heaven;
So take me, love, and understand my worst,
And pardon it, for love, because confessed,
And let me find in thee, my love, my best.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
KISSING THE ROD.
Oh! heart of mine, we should not worry so,
What we've missed of sun, we couldn't have
you know,
What we've met of stormy pain, and of sorrows
driving rain,
We can better meet again, if it blow.
We have erred in that dark hour, we have
know,
When out tears fell with shower, all alone,
Were not joy and sorrow blent, as the gracious
Master meant?
Let us temper our content with His own.
For we know not every morrow can be sad,
So forgetting all the trouble we have had,
Let us fold away our tears, and put by our
foolish fears,
And through all the coming years, just be glad.
Eugene Field.
"It is not so much what you say,
As the manner in which you say it;
It is not so much the language you use,
As the tones in which you convey it."
"The words may be mild and fair,
And the tones may pierce like a dart;
The words may be soft as a summer air,
And the tones may break the heart."
"For words but come from the mind,
And grow by study and art;
But the tones leap forth from the inner self
And reveal the state of the heart."
"Whether you know it or not,
Whether you mean it or care,
Gentleness, kindness, love and hate,
Envy, and anger, are there."
"A life without a motive
Is a useless thing at best,
When so many act want doing
Which would bring us peace and rest;
It brings us pain and worry,
It brings us discontent,
It makes the world seem empty,
And all the effort poorly spent."
LIFE'S CROWNING.
Out of many a faithful struggle,
Out of hope too oft defer'd,
Out of pain and tears and sorrow
Is a man's best nature stir'd.
Out of clouds that hide the heavens,
Out of dreams that come to naught,
Rise the honor and the manhood
With which the hardest fields are fought.
Out of darkest night of anguish,
Just when hideous thoughts do leer,
In the very hour of failure
Oft the sunlight draweth near.
Always, when the heart that conquers
Bears the scars of hope and fear,
Is the vict'ry made more precious,
And the needed peace more dear.
And the crown - however humble -
Gains a luster from the tears
That have the upward the journey
Through the changing hopes and fears.
Chapman Alderson.
"Let me not leave my space of ground untilled."
AIM FOR THE HIGEST.
Aim for the highest, in study and work!
Do your best always, and don't be a shirk.
What is worth doing, is worth doing well.
And sometime, somewhere, its merit will tell.
Dropping a stitch in the stocking will show,
And will make a bad line from the top to the toe
So skimming a lesson or slighting your work
Will make you a laggard, and stamp you a shirk
Aim high, aim high, if your would do well
but aim for the highest, if you would excel.
Emma C.
Dowd
Life is too short for any bitter feelings;
Time is the best aventer if we wait;
The years speed by, and on their wings bring
healing.
We have no room for anything like hate.
Ella Wheeler.
It is a great satisfaction at the close of
life, to be able to look back on the years that are
past, and feel that you have lived, not for
yourself alone, but also, that the same feeling is
source of comfort and happiness at any period of
life. Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness.
It binds your fellow creatures to you, and you to
them; it tends to the improvement of your own
character; and it gives you a real importance in
society, much beyond what any artificial station can
bestow.
If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into
the life of any manor women, I shall feel that I have
worked with God.br>
George Mac Donald.
JUDGE NOT.
It is easy to judge, my friend,
To mark the course to run.
And to say what to do
If I had been you
The way that I sure would have done.
It is so easy to think, my friend,
That in the daily strife
No others have wrought
With such care and thought
As we in the
battle of life.
It is so easy to say, my friend,
The cross another wears
Is sure to be light
If carried aright
The burdens another bears.
It is easy to pray. fair friend,
Lord help me now to see,
That I must judge not
For each earthly lot
Is planned and directed by thee.
A. Van Orden.
"our thoughts are ever forming our characters,
and whatever they are most absorbed in will tinge
our lives.."
Be noble; and the nobleness that lies
in other men sleeping, but not dead, will rise
in majesty to meet thine own.
Lowell.
AS YOU GO THROUGH LIFE.
Don't look for the flaws as you go though life,
And even when you find them,
It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind
And lock for the virtue behind them
For the cloudiest night has a hint of ligh
Somewhere in its shadows hiding;
Than the spots on the sun abiding.
The current of life runs ever away
To the bosom of God's great ocean.
Don't set your force 'gainst the river's course
And think to alter its motion.
Don't waste a curse on
the universe -
Remember, it lived before you.
Don't butt at the
storm with your puny from -
But bend and let it go over you.
The world will never adjust itself
To suit your
whims to the letter.
Some things must go wrong your whole life long,
And the sooner you know it the better.
It is folly to
fight with the Infinite,
And go under at last in the wrestle.
The wiser man, shapes into God's plan
As the water shapes into a vessel.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
If you want knowledge you must toil for it;
if food you must toil for it; if pleasure you
must toil for it. Toil is the law.
Ruskin.
If I have faltered more or less
In my great task of happiness;
If I have moved among my race
And shown no glorious morning face;
If beams from happy human eyes
Have moved me not; if morning skies,
Books, and my food, and summer rain,
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain -
Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take,
And stab my spirit broad awake.
Robert Lewis Stevenson
To people of vigorous, intense nature who
believe in something worth attaining with all their
souls, and travel resolutely toward it with both
feet and thoughts, no individuals are more
exasperating than those have amiably neutral minds,
uncolored and unflavored by positive prejudices or
convictions, unstirred by depth of emotion.
La Harpe compared them to an oven in which
everything gets slightly warmed and nothing cooked.
The enthusiasm that burns something now and
then is better that everlasting lukewarmness.
Young People.
Ah, the key of our life, that passes all
wards, opens all locks.
Is not I will. but I must, I must -
and I do it.
A. H. Clough.
"Shallow draughts intoxicates the brain
And drinking deeply sobers us again."
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