“When you apply principles that operate on earth, you will get the results”

“Begin to get involved in activities that produce results for you”

“An activity without results is a waste”

“Your life must be a chain of activities that is directed at producing results.”

“As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?”

“Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath–all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?”

“Be suspicous of justifying comfortable scenarios.”

“Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.”

“Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.”

“The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.”

“Is this where you tell me God moves in mysterious ways, or something to that effect?” Gilbert asked? Reverend Perry’s eyes twinkled. “I have no idea what God was thinking with this one, Gilbert. But it’s not my place to question. I simply accept the results, and what we’re witnessing now, my dear friend, are wonderful results.”