A Thousand Words

18 Salesian Lay Missioners (SLMs) are following God's call
to serve His children in 4 countries across 3 continents.

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world."

~ Mother Teresa

 

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny

without leaving some mark on it forever." 

~ Francois Mocuriac

  



"Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful,

for beauty is God's handwriting."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"All you need in the world is love and laughter.

That's all anybody needs."

~ August Wilson

"Faith is the strength by which
a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
~ Helen Keller

"Education makes us free."

~ Daisaku Ikeda

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“The heavens declare the glory of God.

The skies proclaim the work of His hands.”

~ Psalms 19:1

“The soul is healed by 

being with children."

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I get by with a little help from my friends.” 

~ John Lennon

"Children need the freedom and time to play

Play is not a luxury.  Play is a necessity."

~Kay Redfield Jamison

"Walk a mile in my moccasins and you will know my journey."

~ Cherokee Indian Proverb

"If the sight of the blues skies fills you with joy...

If the simple things...have a message you understand,

Rejoice, for your soul is alive."

~ Eleanora Duse

"If people in this country think of Africa as a place with flies swarming around [kids'] heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them."

~ Don Cheadle

 "How beautiful is youth!"

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself."

~ Henry Ford

"Sharing food with another human being
is an intimate act."

~ MFK Fisher

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness,

and children sleep soundly in them."

~ Victor Hugo

"If anyone wishes to come after me, 

let him deny himself and take up his

cross daily and follow me."

~ Luke 9:23

"Only in return for death, destruction, and grief as gifts 

can we see the paradise of independence."

~ Vellupillai Pirapakaran

"If I am not for others, what am I?

And if not now, when?” 

~ Rabbi Hillel

"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak."

~ Hopi proverb

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, 

but small ones surround us every day."

~ Sally Koch

"I believe in taking care of each other."

~ Harvey Fierstein

 "A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Oh God bless South Sudan."
~ National Anthem

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans.

It's lovely to be silly at the right moment."

~ Horace

"There's no other love like the love for a brother.

 There's no other love like the love from a brother."

~Astrid Alauda 

"Set life's rhythm with your heart-drum."

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Beauty from the sky descends into my being."

~ Robert Montgomery

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson