Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?

Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

I get happy very easily and very often.