No Life Ever Grows Great Until It

What A Testing Of Character Adversity Is.

No Virtue Is More Universally Accepted As A Test Of Good Character Than Trustworthiness .

The Most Extraordinary Thing About The Oyster Is This. Irritations Set Into His Shell. He Does Not Like Them. But When He Cannot Get Ride Of Them, He Uses The Irritation To Do The Loveliest Thing An Oyster Ever Has A Chance To Do. If There Are Irritations In Our Lives Today, There Is Only One Prescription: Make A Pearl. It May Have To Be A Pearl Of Patience, But Anyhow, Make A Pearl. And It Takes Faith And I Love To Do It.

Peace Is An Awareness Of Reserves From Beyond Ourselves, So That Our Power Is Not So Much In Us As Through Us. Peace Is The Gift, Not Of Volitional Struggle, But Of Spiritual Hospitality.

It Is Not Marriage That Fails; It Is People That Fail. All That Marriage Does Is To Show People Up.