In America, black is a country.
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.
. . . And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.