Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
~ Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Lord, Today I pray for Honesty.
Help me to choose my words wisely;
speaking what others need to hear,
NOT what others want to hear.
(Source: The Praying Woman)
This Week’s Affirmation:
“I express my own self clearly and honestly.”
(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf
People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
(Mother Teresa)
This Week’s Affirmation:
“I express my own self clearly and honestly.”
(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
~ Thomas Jefferson
O God, my God! Fill up for me the cup of detachment from all things, and in the assembly of Thy splendors and bestowals, rejoice me with the wine of loving Thee. Free me from the assaults of passion and desire, break off from me the shackles of this nether world, draw me with rapture unto Thy supernal realm, and refresh me amongst the handmaids with the breathing of Thy holiness.
O Lord, brighten Thou my face with the lights of Thy bestowals, light Thou mine eyes with beholding the signs of Thine all-subduing might; delight my heart with the glory of Thy knowledge that encompasses all things, gladden Thou my soul with Thy soul-reviving tidings of great joy, O Thou King of this world and the Kingdom above, O Thou Lord of dominion and might, that I may spread abroad Thy signs and tokens, and proclaim Thy Cause, and promote Thy teachings, and serve Thy Law and exalt Thy Word.
Thou art, verily, the Powerful, the Ever-Giving, the Able, the Omnipotent.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá)
This Week’s Affirmation:
“I express my own self clearly and honestly.”
(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)
