The main point is that it’s the speaker’s responsibility to bring energy to the audience and to work to activate them.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. Help us to choose patience over making a point, and your Word over our feelings. Lord, help us to choose persev...
My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.
You are worth more than what people say or think of you.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.