Time bears away all things, even the mind. --Virgil (70-19 BC) _Eclogues_ Book
IX, Line 51

Leave the past to the mercy of God, the present to the love of God, and the
future to the providence of God.

Speak ill of no one, speak all the good known of everyone.

Above all, grieve not the Spirit. Quench not the Spirit. Vex not the Spirit.
Drive Him not to a distance, by tampering with small bad habits and little sins.
Little jarrings between husbands and wives make unhappy homes, and petty
inconsistencies, known and allowed, will bring in a strangeness between you and
the Spirit. Hear the conclusion of the whole matter. The man who walks with God
in Christ most closely will generally be kept in the greatest peace. The
believer who follows the Lord most fully will ordinarily enjoy the most assured
hope, and have the clearest persuasion of his own salvation.~ J.C.
Ryle. Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots, “Assurance”,
[Moscow, ID: Charles Nolan Publishing, 2001], 150.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes
deaf.- R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 - 1983