“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.”

“If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.”

“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”

“Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.”

“The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.”

“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”

“Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure yo...”

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

“The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be awa...”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”

“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”