Prayers and Thoughts

for Reflection

Lenton Devotional

2008

February 29

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

God has put something noble and good into every heart which his hand created.

Mark Twain

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

Victor Hugo

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

John Henry Newman

The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.

Psalm 145:9

Dear Lord, Thank you for the promise of Your word.  Let Your infinite patience and goodness fill me today. Help me to seek good in those whose lives touch mine. Thank you for all the goodness that I will see.  Help me to look for it when it is hidden.  Help me to do good works.  Help my words to be gracious and tender. Show me what is most important and take me where I am needed most. Amen