4 Quotes by David Roper

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran; But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. – Samuel Walter Foss.

Here’s the thing: What I hold in my mind will, in time, show up in my face, for as George MacDonald once pointed out, the face is “the surface of the mind.” If I cling to bitterness and resentment, if I tenaciously hold a grudge, if I fail to forgive, my countenance will begin to reflect those angry moods. My mother used to tell me that a mad look might someday freeze on my face. She was wiser than she knew.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was dead wrong. It’s the absence of fear that we should fear.

God is never in a hurry, but He does mean business. He will finish the work as soon as He can. “But” we say, “I have wasted so much of my life. Can I still be of use?” God wastes nothing, not even our sins. When acknowledged, they humble us and make us more merciful to others in their weakness. We can become more approachable, more useful to God and to others. Indeed, each loss has its own compensation.