When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
