The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

The Church in England is the Church of England.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

It looks like the future's really bright.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.