Quotes about Preparation

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

The thing about faith is that you have to have it before you need it.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Holy Spirit of God hath prepared and disposed of the Scripture so as it might be a most sufficient and absolutely perfect way and means of communicating unto our minds that saving knowledge of God and his will which is needful that we may live unto him, and come unto the enjoyment of him in his glory.

Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

I know it's crazy, but I actually prefer to prepare for disaster and worst-case scenarios, rather than panic once they do occur.

The entirety of his life to this point had merely been to prepare him for what he was to do next: bring hope to the hopeless and joy to the joyless. He would serve mankind by reminding them every year that a King had been born who had died for thier sins.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it. ...Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams.