Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way. -- H. W. Beecher
Comment: Every person should use their intellect to see the reasons of our failures and the ways to our successes…and shine Christ's light to the world.

Intellect -- the starlight of the brain. -- N. P. Willis

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest instance of this. If his heart had borne any proportion to his brain, he had been one of the greatest men in all history. -- J. R. Lowell
Comment: A person without a conscience is a terrorist, a monster, a being of only a sub-human variety, yet the love of God does vainly try to awaken the conscience and restore every person to a level of near sainthood.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. -- Caleb Colton
Comment: It is in life's darkest storm that Christ's hand does exert its greatest love…if we would but reach up and believe.

Shepherd's Care Ministries author and webmaster, Rev. Patrick Kelly, is affiliated through ministerial ordination with Church of God Ministries, Anderson IN 46018