The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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