I know not by what methods rare, 
But this I know: 
God answers prayer.

God knows, not I, the reason why
His winds of storm drive through my door;

I am content to live or die
Just knowing this, nor knowing more.

My Father’s hand appointing me
My days and ways, so I am free.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

You are friendly, kind and caring
Sensitive, loyal and understanding
Humorous, fun, secure and true
Always there... yes that's you.

Special, accepting, exciting and wise
Truthful and helpful, with honest blue eyes
Confiding, forgiving, cheerful and bright
Yes that's you... not one bit of spite.

You're one of a kind, different from others
Generous, charming, but not one that smothers
Optimistic, thoughtful, happy and game
But not just another... in the long chain.

Appreciative, warm and precious like gold
Our friendship won't tarnish or ever grow old
You'll always be there, I know that is true
I'll always be here... always for you.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

God can't pour a one gallon idea into a one cup mind.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

   If this be error and upon me proved,

   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

We have been the recipients of the richest bounties of heaven.  We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.  We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power, like no other nation ever has.

But we have forgotten God.  We have forgotten the gracious hand that has preserved us in peace and mulitplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined in the decietfullness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, to proud to pray to God who made us!  It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.