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I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.

Your life will never be a straight path.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The movement of the floes was beyond all human control, and there was nothing to be gained by allowing one's mind to struggle with the problems of the future, though it was hard to avoid anxiety at times.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.

Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

Man is only what he becomes--profound truth; but he becomes only what he is, truth still more profound.

To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life.

At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.

At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.

But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.

I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.

You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.

The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

A species of thick clothing slowly grows about the mind, the pores are choked, little habits become a part of existence, and by degrees the mind is inclosed in a husk.

There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.

If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy.

Little by little, through patience and long-suffering, thou shalt conquer by the help of God, rather than by violence and thine own strength of will.