“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” — Lee Maynard
“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.” ― C.S. Lewis
“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.” ― C.S. Lewis
“Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.” — Sinclair B. Ferguson
“Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.” — E. Stanley Jones
“We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God’s own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” — Helen Keller
“There are no sins God’s people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience. They are ready either to faint through unbelief, or to fret through impatience.” — Thomas Watson
“A man is but what he knows.” — Sir Francis Bacon
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” — Wayne Gretzky
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” — Benjamin Franklin
“A great man is always willing to be little.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson