When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. – Peter Marshall
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. – Peter Marshall
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. – Peter Marshall
There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule. – Samuel Butler