"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The hands are the heart's messengers."
— Marianne Moore

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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— Corrie Ten Boom

"This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)

"We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."
— Jane Austen

"Home is the nicest word there is."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation. "
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The heart, like the mind, has a memory.
And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Wisdom is sometimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
— William Wordsworth

"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
— J. S. Bach

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
— Anne Bradstreet

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many people fail to recognize opportunity because it comes disguised as work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

"Modesty is the citadel of beauty and virtue."
— Demades

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing."
— Thomas Jefferson

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
— Thomas Jefferson

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
— George Washington

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. "
— George Washington Carver

" Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
— George Washington

"Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength."
— George Washington

"Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks."
— Thomas Goodwin

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
— Washington Irving

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

"Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong."
— William Ewart Gladstone

"The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
— Horace Greeley

"There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .""
— Charles Spurgeon

"When your will is God's will, you will have your will."
— Charles Spurgeon

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for."
— Charles Spurgeon

"Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches."
— Charles Spurgeon

"Everyone, at some time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
— Abraham Lincoln

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
— Charles Spurgeon

"Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul."
— Tryon Edwards

"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
— Benjamin Franklin

"If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Well done is better than well said."
— Benjamin Franklin