Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.
After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.
Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
The sky the sky- same as it always was.
How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.
Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting. . . is the appointed place for the reception of power.