"Father in Heaven! What is man without thee! What is all that he knows, vast accumulation though it be, but a chipped fragment if he knows not thee! Thee the One, who art one thing and art all! So mayest thou give to the intellect, wisdom to comprehend that one thing; to the heart, sincerity to receive this understanding; to the will purity that wills only one thing." - Soren Kierkegaard

Found these and thought I would share ;)

The worst things that happen do not happen because a few people are monstrously wicket, but because most people are like us.

The test of our belief is always in our practice.

There is the first thing - the bringing of the inner life under the control of the Holy Spirit by the pepetual discipline which brings us back, day by day, to the remembrance and companionship of Jesus Christ. Upon that everything else depends, for if the inward life is not sound you cannot do much with the outer.

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It happens very often that one tries to do something and fails. He feels discouraged, and yet he may discover years afterward that the very effort he made was the reason why somebody else took it up and succeeded. I really believe that whatever use I have been to progressive civilization has been accomplished in the things I failed to do rather than in the things I actually did do. - George W. Norris

Jesus has always many who love His heavenly kingdom, but few who bear His cross - Imitation of Christ

"...by loving God, who is the sum of all good, for Himself alone, we cannot help loving ourselves, our neighbor, and everything else in heir proper place and degree." T. C. Upham (from a biography of Francios Fenelon.

"O merciful Father! let me no longer reason about grace, but silently abandon myself to its operation" - from Spiritual Progress by Francois Fenelon