We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.
Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.
Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.
Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.