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“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.”
― John MacArthur Jr.

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;

In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983”
― Winston S. Churchill

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”
― Zig Ziglar

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
― Pele

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
― Newt Gingrich

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
― Saint Augustine

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― St. Augustine

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
― Saint Augustine

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
― St. Augustine

“People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering. ”
― Saint Augustine

“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
― Augustine

“God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. ”
― St. Augustine

“Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.”
― Augustine

“Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!”
― Charles Spurgeon

“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“My work with teenagers has convinced me that one of the main reasons teenagers are not excited by the gospel is that they do not think they need it. Many parents have successfully raised self-righteous little Pharisees. When they look at themselves, they do not see a sinner in desperate need, so they are not grateful for a Savior. Sadly, the same is true of many of their parents.”
― Timothy Lane, How People Change: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace, Leader's Guide

“The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing us from is ourselves.”
― Timothy Lane, How People Change: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace, Leader's Guide

“We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.”
― Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.”
― Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

“To be born from above of the Spirit of God means that we must let go before we lay hold, and in the first stages it is the relinquishing of al pretence. What Our Lord wants us to present to Him is not goodness, nor honesty, nor endeavour, but real solid sin; that is al He can take from us.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language