You would do well to pursue your causes with vigor, while remembering that you are a servant of God, not a spokesman for God, and remembering that God might well choose to bless an opposing point of view for reasons that have not yet been revealed to you.
- Barbara Jordan
To preach, to really preach, is to die naked a little at a time, and to know each time you do it that you must do it again.
- Bruce Thielemann
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
- Robert Benchley
You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
- Job 14:15
The Warfare against self is the greatest battle that was ever fought.
- Steps to Christ, p. 27
Not by painful struggles or wearisome toil, not by gift or sacrifice, is righteousness obtained; but it is freely given to every soul who hungers and thirsts to receive it.
- Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, p. 18
None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.
- Steps to Christ, p. 35
Often our plans fail that God's plans for us may succeed.
- Help in Daily Living, p. 6
God takes men as they are... They are not chosen because they are perfect, but notwithstanding their imperfections, that through the knowledge and practice of the truth, through the grace of Christ, they may become transformed into His image.
- Desire of Ages, p. 294
