Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.
Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether it be polygamy, whether it be divorce, whether it be a marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. The ideal would be a man and a woman under a covenant of God's blessing.
America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle might light a thousand, so the light here [in Plymouth Colony] kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
I think life is really good.
Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!
Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.
There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.
I never had a family, and now I do. I know I'm a very lucky guy.
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.
Counting blessings is better than recounting problems
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.
