Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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.

Education is the freedom of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. But been educated does not guarantee success in life, but it's the key to everlasting life.

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love').

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

There's no end to amazing grace.

I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.