To Quote

Adversity


One reason God created time was so there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.



If I have learned anything, I owe it neither to precepts nor to books, but to a few opportune misfortunes. Perhaps the school of misfortune is the very best.



Many people quench the Spirit by being down in the mouth rather than rejoicing, by planning rather than praying, by murmuring rather than giving thanks, and by worrying instead of trusting in him who is faithful.



Culture


The world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.



At the point of desperation is the time for rededication.



Marriage


To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
When you're wrong, admit it,
When you're right, shut up.



Let the wife make her husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.



Men and Women


A woman with a woman's point of view is of more value than when she forgets she's a woman and begins ...

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