Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and if they have not learned to know Him they will be wretched. And therefore He troubles them, warning them in advance of an insufficiency that one day they will have to discover. The life to themselves and their families stands between them and the recognition of their need; He makes that life less sweet to them.If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Thomas Moore

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Patrick Henry

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

Natalie Wood

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

J. Richard Clarke

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

Ethan Hawke

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How use doth breed a habit in man!

William Shakespeare

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

John Nelson Darby