Be merciful to yourself, stop fighting yourself quite so much. Maybe what you are asking of yourself, what you're driving yourself to do or to be, what you put a gun to your own back to make yourself do, is something at this point you needn't have to think about doing. So, think back at the end of the day to the wars you're involved in. How are they going?

I think that I learned something about how even tragedy can be a means of grace that I might never have come to any other way.

The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him. The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn't want to get hold of me again. No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

One cannot tell when grace is coming or how it will work on the soul; whether it will come as a result of a disgust with sin.

Without Me you can do nothing"… nothing.

What have I done to deserve this' if a cry of pride. What did Jesus do? What did Mary do? Let there be no complaint against God for sending a cross; let there only be wisdom enough to see that Nary is there making it lighter, making it sweeter, making it hers.

Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.