Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions. Choose now and continue to choose this incredible truth.

When we look for divine solutions in others, we make others into gods and ourselves into demons. Our hands no longer caress but instead grasp. Our lips no longer kiss or form kind words but bite.

When we worry, we have our hearts in the wrong place. Jesus asks us to move our hearts to the center, where all other things fall into place.

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause."

To pray means to stop expecting from God the same small-mindedness which you discover in yourself.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.