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Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy and by religion. The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness. To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding. Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts. We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?" |