That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Father, teach us all how to wait.

Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept

The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action, where that action may be done; nay, so much the contrary, that, if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable.South'sSermons.3. Agency

One corporate executive faced this spiritual crisis and went on a pilgrimage to Calcutta, India, to seek the advice of Mother Teresa. She spoke sharply with him. She told him to go back home to Wisconsin and be a good CEO so that his company might prosper and keep many people gainfully employed. "Bloom where you're planted," she told him, so that in Milwaukee the Missionaries of Charity would never find "the poorest of the poor.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.