I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see. " I skirt those kinds of answers.
Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.
With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse's question, 'what did you do today?' with 'well, I read a lot, and I talked a little. ' If you're not buying or selling, you may feel you aren't doing anything.
Be positive. Be true. Be kind.