England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.
He who invites us to follow will always be out in front of us with His Spirit and influence setting the pace. He has charted and marked the course, opened the gates, and shown the way. He has invited us to come unto Him, and the best time to enjoy His companionship is straightway. We can best get on the course and stay on the course by doing as Jesus did-make a total commitment to do the will of His Father.
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.