When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
Love is in the giver, not the gift.
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal.
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions.
God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven’t a single doubt.
Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.
Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal.
A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.
Any day above ground is a good one.
The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.
Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.
The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you’re gone.
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.
Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.
Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that’s when the blessings flow.
The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the “second mile” and told us to go there. Why? Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile.
Generally speaking, “an eye single to the glory of God” means sacrifice. It means that instead of endlessly doing what we want to do, we have to do what the Lord wants us to do, but we have to do it in his way when he wants us to do it.
Once baptized, we then receive the Holy Ghost, a special gift from God, which is priceless beyond expression. The Holy Ghost bears witness of the Father and the Son and guides us to all truth and comforts us and gives us peace for the rest of our lives.
I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do.