For I desire kindness, not sacrifice.
- Hosea 6:6
A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
“My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship.”
~ The Dalai Lama
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
- Joseph Campbell
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.”
~ Faith Whittlesey
"Your reputation is what you're perceived to be; your character is what you really are"
- John Wooden
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
- Orison Swett Marden
The path of the just is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
-Proverbs 4:18
“A life lived with purpose is meaningful. A life enjoyed along the way is truly fulfilling.”
- anonymous
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”
- Maya Angelou
“Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.”
- Stephen S. Wise
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm.”
- Bruce Barton
Happy Father’s Day!
“I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it”
- Albert Einstein