I have had prayers answered — most strangely so sometimes —
but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
There's nothing like a good crisis to increase my energy and remind me how much I need God.
You don't need to see the way if you follow the one that is the Way.
Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life.
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both." Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours in Christ. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp.
More light than we can learn, more wealth than we can treasure, more love than we can earn, more peace than we can measure, because one Child is born.
That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child Himself.
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