Quotes about Readiness

Children, who are dealt with more generously and more liberally by their fathers, do not hesitate to show them unfinished projects that they have only begun, or even spoiled a little. Even if they have not succeeded in doing quite what they wanted, they are confident that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted. Such children we ought to be, trusting confidently that our most lenient Father will approve of them, however small, rough, or imperfect they may be.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

It makes no sense to tell everyone to look at you if you're not ready to be looked at yet.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Much more do they want that moral perfection which the blessed partake of; those holy dispositions of mind; that cheerful readiness to do the will of God; that perfect rectitude of all their actions: instead of these, they have that perverseness of will, that loathing of good, that love to evil, that violence of passion, which they had on earth.

God does not change, but our readiness for such a God takes a long time to change.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.