As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

Our society has led us to believe that everybody is on the internet these days. Contrary to popular belief everyone is not on social media.

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose!