Just a bit of history: I built the old CMDA website during my summer break following my M1 year in 2006 using Microsoft Publisher, which was the only web publishing software that I had ready access to. The old site can still be accessed here. On the old site, we had a "Prayer Column" where people contributed encouraging Christian quotes and scriptural verses. Here is what was contributed for 2006:
“It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit, because there is no winter there.” - John Bunyan on Christian suffering
“I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.” – Philippians 3:8“If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ-likework which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last thirty-five years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.” - Booker T. Washington, writing of the support that Christians had given to his efforts to lift African-Americans out of poverty after the Civil War
“As the value of human life is diminshed, so too is the value of physicians.” - Michael Berven, M1
“God's wisdom comes to us in a revelation that human wisdom would consider foolish. God's power comes to us in an action that human politics would see as weakness. God's wisdom and power come to us in Jesus Christ: born in poverty, raised without any great school or educator, executed as a criminal. The cross of Jesus Christ--his suffering, death, and resurrection--is not the sort of thing humanistic educators and politicians count on to change people or improve society. And yet Christ crucified and risen has done more to save individuals and change societies for the better than all philosophers and politicians combined.”
- David Feddes, Back to God Hour
“Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.”-Sylvia Robinson
“If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”-Mary Pickford
“Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.” -Ella Wheeler-Wilcox (See 1 John 5:14-15)
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.” - 1 John 5:14-15
“Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi (See Luke 12:13-21)
“From early Christian times, the founding and support of hospitals was preached as a sacred duty. Yet the pious commitment to charity ("love thy neighbour") meant that the medieval hospital was not primarily medical in nature. Rather, it was a place offering care to all those in need: hospitality to travellers; shelter to the needy; succour to the lame, the maimed, and the blind; and even help to unmarried mothers as they neared confinement.” - Ray Porter, “English Hospital 1070-1570.” Lancet, 11/4/95.
“If I don't care enough about you to pray for you, then I shouldn't be cutting you open.” - Michael Berven, M1
“Preach the gospel at all times, and if necessary, use words.” - St. Francis of Assisi
The Oak Tree
Author Unknown
A mighty wind blew night and day
It stole the oak tree's leaves away
Then snapped its boughs and pulled its bark
Until the oak was tired and stark
But still the oak tree held its ground
While other trees fell all around
The weary wind gave up and spoke.
How can you still be standing Oak?
The oak tree said, I know that you
Can break each branch of mine in two
Carry every leaf away
Shake my limbs, and make me sway
But I have roots stretched in the earth
Growing stronger since my birth
You'll never touch them, for you see
They are the deepest part of me
Until today, I wasn't sure
Of just how much I could endure
But now I've found, with thanks to you
I'm stronger than I ever knew
Credits from bottom to top
From LaDonna Wright (1, 5, 7-9)
From Dr. James Williams, Ph.D. (2)
From Michael Berven (3,11)
From Shu J Muramoto (4,6,10,12-14)