The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

As we undergo maturation, we come to understand that our temporary fruit was never the endgame of an everlasting Master, but rather just a single step in the process of making eternal wine.

You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say that it punishes you for comprehending it; but no, it rewards you for it; for it puts you into a hell where you feel God at your side.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.