If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there i...
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness...
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great neces...
Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant s...
And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against another, and they shall fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people of the Lord. And all that fight against Zion shall be destroyed, and that ...
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. Proverbs 22:1
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
There is a great uproar made about the debt of a poor man.
Good health and good sense are two great blessings.
You are not great just because you say you are.
The person who gets stuck on petty happiness will not attain great happiness.
You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.
Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.
There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this: I have a responsibility I need to fathom. I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.
It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
[The atonement's] authenticity and value in no way depend on the response of any man, but depend instead on its satisfaction of God and the demands of His righteousness.
Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.
Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.
Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.
