But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.

It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.

Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.

Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.

You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.

I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81

The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.