With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.

Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.

When we learn of Him, we see the things that we do wrong, we see what things need to be corrected in our way of thinking and our way of living.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

I think there's where we can enlist the veterans service organizations, the veterans of America, because, yes, let's fix the V.A., but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.