Hot tempers start fights; a calm, cool spirit keeps the peace.

(Proverbs 15:18 -- MSG)

Official motto of the USA as approved by Congress in 1956, but first appeared on one of our coins in 1864
. . . IN GOD WE TRUST. 

"O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from all those who persecute me; And deliver me, ² Lest they tear me like a lion, rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver."

(Psalm 7:1-2 – NKJV)

 

 

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

(1 Corinthians 13:11 -- NIV)

Each, however, in his own turn: Christ rose first; then when Christ comes back, all his people will become alive again.
²⁴ After that the end will come when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having put down all enemies of every kind.

(1 Corinthians 15:23-24 -- TLB)

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

(Dr. Seuss)

Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray without ceasing, ¹⁸ give
 thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

(1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 -- ESV)





"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
(Matthew 6:21 -- ESV)

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
(John 3:20 -- ESV)