Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Always take a job that is too big for you.
He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.
Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
No man need stay the way he is.
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