M & M Grant: Leah

Quotes That Inspire Me!

He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary." --Brigham Young

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." --Plato

'I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go.' -- Abraham Lincoln

'Arise from the dust, my sons, and be men, and be determined in one mind and in one heart, united in all things..' -- Lehi

'The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me -- but he will show that he hath not.....Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee...' -- Isaiah

'No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.' -- C.S. Lewis

'She is a witch! May we burn her?
What makes you think she's a witch?
She turned me into a newt. ........ I got better.
Burn her anyway.' -- Monty Python

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." --Helen Keller

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." --C.S. Lewis

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!”
— Alexandre Dumas--

"Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard."--Todd Christopherson

M & M Grant

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Christmas Morning!