Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Trump doesn't define my destiny, only I do and the Lord above.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

Don't fall for the trap. Stay focused. It's about staying focused but at the same time God is the greatest, pray it up.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.