Quotes about Preparation

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

It is extremely difficult to get a medal at the World Championships, even more than the Olympics. And when one is not 100 per cent prepared, it is next to impossible to win a medal there.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

The Day Dawns: Rising with Praise, Petition, and Planning.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

When we give up the smaller, everyday things we are training for times when greater sacrifice is required.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.

There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.