Influence may be the highest level of human skills |
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it |
It is much safer to obey than to rule |
Keep yourself a stranger and pilgrim upon earth, to whom the affairs of this world are of no concern. |
Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me. |
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!' |
Love makes everything that is heavy light. |
Man proposes, but God disposes |
Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change. |
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled |
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is |
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen |
Offer yourself to Me, and give yourself wholly for God, and your offering will be acceptable. |
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God |
Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement. |