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“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
― Anonymous

“Your castles and strongholds shall have bars of iron and bronze, and as your day, so shall your strength, your rest and security, be.”
― Anonymous, Deuteronomy

“Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders.” Deuteronomy 33:12”
― Moses

“Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
― Anonymous

“You have to be the nourishment for other people’s souls until they learn to feed on God.” Oswald Chambers”
― Oswald Chambers

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom”
― Corrie ten Boom

“My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers”
― Oswald Chambers

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
― Charles Dickens

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Addresses

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta”
― Mother Teresa

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -Scott Hamilton”
― Scott Hamilton

“Waiting with hope is very difficult, but true patience is expressed when we must even wait for hope. I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope."
George Matheson”
― George Matheson

“To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us." Oswald Chambers”
― Oswald Chambers

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
― Mark Twain

“You're never a loser until you quit trying." -Mike Ditka”
― Mike Ditka

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." -Frank Tyger”
― Frank Tyger

“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa”
― Mother Teresa

“Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.”
― Wilma Rudolph

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
― Helen Keller

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
― Aristotle

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain”
― Mark Twain

“Each burden we have to carry has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel. – Charles H. Spurgeon”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. -Barbra Johnson”
― Barbra Johnson

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. -Tommy Lasorda”
― Tommy La Sorda

“Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.”
― Oswald Chambers

“No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying.”
― Norma Gail