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The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that will our prayer.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising.

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.

The Greek words recorded in the Gospels when Jesus died, translated in English as "It is finished" were the same words used in bills of sale and meant "paid in full.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have got to set your self on fire for it.

I am the master of my unspoken words, and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.