The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.- Ben Sweetland

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.- John Petit-Senn, 1792 - 1870

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.- Basil, 329 - 379

Found a little patched-up inn in the village of Bulson.... Proprietor had nothing but potatoes; but what a feast he laid before me. Served them in five different courses: potato soup, potato fricassee, potatoes creamed, potato salad, and finished with potato pie. It may be because I had not eaten for 36 hours, but that meal seems about the best I ever had. - Douglas MacArthur, 1880 - 1964, in his World War I diary

It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it. - John Calvin, 1509 - 1564