Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.
I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.
The greatest test of life is obedience to God.
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. . . Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure. . . Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .
Real prayer is communion with God
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.