Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
- Topic: Gratitude, Prayer
- Location: Grand Teton National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
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.
