Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.