“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

I was with book, as a woman is with child

Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.

Your soft heart is a blessing not a curse.