The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
So few people know what they're capable of.
Every week, I'm faced with, and aware of, 10-14 different reviewable albums that, in a perfect world, I'd be able to pop a review out of. But I'm just one person who, while maintaining my sanity, can only do 5-6 reviews per week.
When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed
I've always stood for my people, with my people, but some guys just don't have voices like that. I don't like the pressure some people put on others. Some people are just not built for it. Some guys just play basketball, they don't talk, they don't post. Everybody in the '60s wasn't in the civil rights movement.
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.
Each of us at any time and space is doing the very best we can with what we have.
Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.
I don't think talent or the gift ever goes away.
It is impossible to do everything people want you to do. You have just enough time to do God’s will. If you can’t get it all done, it means you’re trying to do more than God intended for you to do.
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.
I know I’ve got loads that has never been tapped.
I do not believe I can physically and mentally carry the responsibilities of the bomb, and the world, and the Negroes and the South and so on and so forth.
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.
The Lord doesn't expect us to work harder than we are able. He doesn't (nor should we) compare our efforts to those of others. Our Heavenly Father asks only that we do the best we can—that we work according to our full capacity, however great or small that may be.
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.
All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
