If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

We ought to celebrate the sacredness of life.

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.