Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
No evil is without its compensation. . . it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is. . . God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. . . I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!
I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something. . . I want to get there, I want to support this.