Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

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.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

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. What about you, and me?

Good.I need you to be scared.Very, very scared.And then you'll never be scared again.

Love is my religion, love is my destiny.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied, "Are they going to call the trade show police?

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.