"I have learned to kiss the waves..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.”

“There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.”

“We are all at times unconscious prophets.”

“You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.”

“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat”

“Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.”

“After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”

“Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.”