Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.