Be not afraid for little grace. Christ soweth His living seed, and He will not lose His seed; if He have the guiding of my stock and state35 it shall not miscarry. Our spilt works, losses, deadness, coldness, wretchedness, are the ground which the good Husbandman laboureth.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.