I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur. . . us to achieve great things.
The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.